Bin collection day and other stressful events
| dc.contributor.advisor | Coovadia, Imraan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tennant, Megan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-30T08:21:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-07-30T08:21:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2023-07-30T08:20:34Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Elizabeth is six when the ANC wins the first democratic elections in South Africa. While most of the country celebrates freedom, the only difference she notices is the growing intensity of her fears. Fear remains a faithful companion to Elizabeth as she grows up. She fears the rubbish trucks in her childhood, the Valentine's Dance in high school, and the remote possibility of passing out in a gutter somewhere in her first year of university. The short stories in this collection feature a similar (and often contradictory) version of the protagonist, from Elizabeth's childhood in eastern Johannesburg to her early adult years in an uptight Cape Town neighbourhood. Each story deals with a dilemma unique to each life stage and should be read in isolation. But its neighbours in the collection reveal the recurring tensions that influence an identity. In Elizabeth's case, these include the role of her religion, her repressed racism, and the bizarre benefits of gross inequality. All of these contribute to her urge, as a white girl in post-apartheid South Africa, to peer across from her and check if she should be somewhere, or someone, else. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Tennant, M. (2023). <i>Bin collection day and other stressful events</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Languages and Literatures. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38185 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Tennant, Megan. <i>"Bin collection day and other stressful events."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Languages and Literatures, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38185 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tennant, M. 2023. Bin collection day and other stressful events. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Languages and Literatures. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38185 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Master Thesis AU - Tennant, Megan AB - Elizabeth is six when the ANC wins the first democratic elections in South Africa. While most of the country celebrates freedom, the only difference she notices is the growing intensity of her fears. Fear remains a faithful companion to Elizabeth as she grows up. She fears the rubbish trucks in her childhood, the Valentine's Dance in high school, and the remote possibility of passing out in a gutter somewhere in her first year of university. The short stories in this collection feature a similar (and often contradictory) version of the protagonist, from Elizabeth's childhood in eastern Johannesburg to her early adult years in an uptight Cape Town neighbourhood. Each story deals with a dilemma unique to each life stage and should be read in isolation. But its neighbours in the collection reveal the recurring tensions that influence an identity. In Elizabeth's case, these include the role of her religion, her repressed racism, and the bizarre benefits of gross inequality. All of these contribute to her urge, as a white girl in post-apartheid South Africa, to peer across from her and check if she should be somewhere, or someone, else. DA - 2023_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Creative Writing LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2023 T1 - Bin collection day and other stressful events TI - Bin collection day and other stressful events UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38185 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38185 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Tennant M. Bin collection day and other stressful events. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Languages and Literatures, 2023 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38185 | 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 | Bin collection day and other stressful events | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters |