A Soft Landing
| dc.contributor.advisor | Boswell, Barbara-Anne | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mushwana, Wisani | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-10T10:30:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-10T10:30:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-03-08T08:30:53Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | For Andzani, home has always been a trigger for unpleasant memories, it has become the site for anxiety. After completing his Accounting Degree at the University of Cape Town and securing employment after, Andzani minimizes his visits back home to evade those memories home allows to seep through and confront him. He fears what this remembering will do to him, undo in him. Then one morning he receives a phone call from his uncle, Sontaga, to come fetch his mother, Violet, and take her to a mental institution because her mental health is deteriorating. As if given a last chance, on this trip, long-repressed memories flood his head and dull his days in order to force him to pay attention to them, digest them. In Dorothy L. Pennington conceptualisation of memory as a helix, she states that “the past is an indispensable part of the present which participates in it, enlightens it, and gives it meaning.” Taking this assertion as a point of departure, ‘A Soft Landing' is a novel that explores the implications of a past not decisively dealt with. The novel explores how the past gives meaning to present identities and how new identity formations are negotiated within the eye of the past participating in the present. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Mushwana, W. (2021). <i>A Soft Landing</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Languages and Literatures. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36033 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Mushwana, Wisani. <i>"A Soft Landing."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Languages and Literatures, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36033 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mushwana, W. 2021. A Soft Landing. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Languages and Literatures. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36033 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Master Thesis AU - Mushwana, Wisani AB - For Andzani, home has always been a trigger for unpleasant memories, it has become the site for anxiety. After completing his Accounting Degree at the University of Cape Town and securing employment after, Andzani minimizes his visits back home to evade those memories home allows to seep through and confront him. He fears what this remembering will do to him, undo in him. Then one morning he receives a phone call from his uncle, Sontaga, to come fetch his mother, Violet, and take her to a mental institution because her mental health is deteriorating. As if given a last chance, on this trip, long-repressed memories flood his head and dull his days in order to force him to pay attention to them, digest them. In Dorothy L. Pennington conceptualisation of memory as a helix, she states that “the past is an indispensable part of the present which participates in it, enlightens it, and gives it meaning.” Taking this assertion as a point of departure, ‘A Soft Landing' is a novel that explores the implications of a past not decisively dealt with. The novel explores how the past gives meaning to present identities and how new identity formations are negotiated within the eye of the past participating in the present. DA - 2021_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Creative Writing LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2021 T1 - A Soft Landing TI - A Soft Landing UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36033 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36033 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Mushwana W. A Soft Landing. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Languages and Literatures, 2021 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36033 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | School of Languages and Literatures | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.subject | Creative Writing | |
| dc.title | A Soft Landing | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | M.A. |