In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth

Master Thesis

2006

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Dovey, Ceridwen
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University of Cape Town

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Department of English Language and Literature
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There has been a change of regime in a place with very different co-ordinates to the real world, and the President and his intimates - his chef, barber and portraitist - are being held accountable for their complicity by the new Commander. Each man in turn speaks of his appetites, the physical, the tactile, the hurt done by him and to him, detailing the intimacies of his particular embodied life. The significant woman in each man's life gives voice to the minutiae of pain, balancing melancholy, farce and horror, until all characters' voices elide in a whirlpool of personal and public reckoning, memory and desire.
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Dovey, C. 2006. In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth. University of Cape Town.

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