Aloe and honey : tales from town and country

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dc.contributor.advisorCoetzee, JMen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorGalgut Den_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMxakwe, Mzamadoda Theophilusen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-16T19:58:28Z
dc.date.available2014-11-16T19:58:28Z
dc.date.issued1998en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe Black South African literary oeuvre has as its dominant background township life. There has been a considerable neglect of village or rural setting. Even the proliferation of writing that has been regarded as depicting genuine African experience has fallen short of remedying this malady. There is a paucity of writings that endeavour to depict rural communities, and even where South African writers attempted to depict rural community, theirs has been an indolent attempt, as evinced by a lack of insight in such writings. One example is Matshoba's Call Me Not A Man. which is merely a glimpse into the rural setting. This shortcoming, coupled with a travesty of the rural setting, suggests a non-existence of the rural community. Whether South African writers, especially, Black writers, eschew rural setting deliberately or not is open to debate. Hence my project has as its paramount aim an endeavour to expose authentic rural realities. This collection, therefore, portrays rural life against the backdrop of city life. This paradoxical juxtapositioning is a deliberate attempt to enable the reader to extricate real-life happenings from both scenarios, and have a sound judgement about his/her observation.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMxakwe, M. T. (1998). <i>Aloe and honey : tales from town and country</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9679en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMxakwe, Mzamadoda Theophilus. <i>"Aloe and honey : tales from town and country."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9679en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMxakwe, M. 1998. Aloe and honey : tales from town and country. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Mxakwe, Mzamadoda Theophilus AB - The Black South African literary oeuvre has as its dominant background township life. There has been a considerable neglect of village or rural setting. Even the proliferation of writing that has been regarded as depicting genuine African experience has fallen short of remedying this malady. There is a paucity of writings that endeavour to depict rural communities, and even where South African writers attempted to depict rural community, theirs has been an indolent attempt, as evinced by a lack of insight in such writings. One example is Matshoba's Call Me Not A Man. which is merely a glimpse into the rural setting. This shortcoming, coupled with a travesty of the rural setting, suggests a non-existence of the rural community. Whether South African writers, especially, Black writers, eschew rural setting deliberately or not is open to debate. Hence my project has as its paramount aim an endeavour to expose authentic rural realities. This collection, therefore, portrays rural life against the backdrop of city life. This paradoxical juxtapositioning is a deliberate attempt to enable the reader to extricate real-life happenings from both scenarios, and have a sound judgement about his/her observation. DA - 1998 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1998 T1 - Aloe and honey : tales from town and country TI - Aloe and honey : tales from town and country UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9679 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/9679
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMxakwe MT. Aloe and honey : tales from town and country. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1998 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9679en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherCreative Writingen_ZA
dc.titleAloe and honey : tales from town and countryen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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