Browsing by Author "Rose-Innes, Henrietta"

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    The colour of courage
    (2012) Budge, Alison; Rose-Innes, Henrietta
    Set in the challenging environment of a road construction project in Benin, West Africa, this is a story about three women and their intertwined lives. Each woman has a different personal reason for being in Benin. Each woman needs the courage to make a decision that will have far-reaching consequences.
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    The dream catcher
    (2008) Motana, Nape'a,1945-; Rose-Innes, Henrietta; Watson, Stephen
    The dissertation is about an ambitious, rural young woman who aspires to be a great performing artist. Rabeka Maru-a-pula, spurns a marriage proposal, from an eligible bachelor attending her church because she feels that marriage will be an impediment to her unrealised dreams. Her parents are very upset by her decision. She meets her former teacher, TM who, appreciative of her amateur acting experience, invites her to join his project, 'Realise Your Dream.' This step initiates a lasting friendship from which she will draw support and encouragement when she encounters trials in the future.
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    Maps to get lost by
    (2008) Lossgott, Kai; Rose-Innes, Henrietta
    Late in 1998, Lincoln, a former journalist turned truck driver, picks up the ghost of a 17 year old white schoolgirl on a dark Joburg highway. She becomes his confessor, as he relates fragments of his life, hoping to seduce her. He is driving a shipment to Port Elizabeth, where he grew up, but does not want to return home with the news of being HIV positive. He would rather drive forever. Sooner or later Lincoln abandons the map completely, as he proceeds to willfully get lost. He gets stuck in an indeterminate phantom time, struggling to stay awake, losing and finding himself on a journey through eerie nocturnal landscapes and memories he has forgotten. Ban, the ghost's obsessive-compulsive best friend, wakes up after her funeral having tried to commit suicide. He is pursued by memories of Marga while she was alive, in particular her theories on AIDS and sexuality, and his secret love for her. A number of forces, real and imagined, are driving him towards overcoming his fear of leaving the house. Ban feels abused by his mother Helen's lifestyle. She is a con artist with a taste for reckless men, the latest of which is Derrick, who represents to Ban everything which is morally reprehensible about adulthood and growing up. Ean's discoveries in the course of his spring clean of the house, and the stories Lincoln tells the ghost, uncover Helen's great secret. She survived apartheid by denying her coloured family and living as a white woman, rejecting the black father of her child early on for her dream of becoming a .great white actress. When Ban runs away from home with the intention to commit suicide, and Lincoln emerges into the dawn with finer hopes of returning home, they meet without recognising one another as father and son, but unexpectedly give each other hope to carry on. In a world the one does not believe in and the other has abandoned, a boy and a man resist and deny the unfolding of their stories. Central to their struggle are the themes of home, family and healing. For Ban, healing means leaving, for Lincoln it requires return. The memories which pursue them will force them into the discovery of who they are about to become.
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    Sea creatures of the Southern deep : a novel
    (1999) Rose-Innes, Henrietta; Coetzee, John M
    This dissertation consists of a short novel, Sea Creatures of the Southern Deep, accompanied by a preface. In the preface, I discuss some aspects of my own experience that have influenced the text. I also outline the development of the manuscript, illustrating the process of revision with excerpts from drafts of the novel. The novel itself is an account of a woman's loss and eventual recovery of a childhood vitality and sense of self. The story follows a protagonist, Anna (initially Joanna), from fearless childhood through troubled youth to adulthood. Through this narrative, I examine themes of loss, desire and identity within sexual and non-sexual relationships. After an opening passage describing an episode in childhood, the story finds Joanna at high school. Her ambivalent friendship with a classmate, Leah, and infatuation with a teenage boy, Robbie, are described. This section culminates in Robbie's drowning and Leah's disappearance. Subsequently, Joanna / Anna attends art school, where she starts an intense relationship with an older man, Alan. Her almost voyeuristic fascination with Alan is mirrored by her job photographing animals at the aquarium. Throughout, the sea and sea creatures signify those things that Anna both desires and fears. Leah returns, moves in with Anna, and eventually seduces Alan. Anna takes revenge by creating a photographic collage; through this act she symbolically "kills" her lover. In doing so, she frees herself from a damaging relationship, and is able to re- enter her life rejuvenated.
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    Writers reading: favourite books
    (2013) Heyns, Michiel; Dowling, Finuala; Coovadia, Imraan; Omotoso, Yewande; Rose-Innes, Henrietta
    What books do writers read for pleasure? This course will reveal which recent books five prominent South African writers - Finuala Dowling, Michiel Heyns, Yewande Omotoso, Henrietta Rose-Innes and Imraan Coovadia - are currently enjoying and why. For anyone interested in learning more about what prominent SA writers read for pleasure.