How to build a home for the end of the World

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dc.contributor.advisorCoovadia, Imraan
dc.contributor.authorShinners, Keely
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-29T11:30:24Z
dc.date.available2020-10-29T11:30:24Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2020-10-29T11:30:01Z
dc.description.abstractHow To Build a Home for the End of the World is a magical realist dystopian road trip novel by Keely Shinners. Donny is a carpenter who renovates houses nobody lives in. His daughter, Mary-Beth, is hell-bent on donating her organs to her chronically ill ex-girlfriend, Aida. Together, they go on a road trip across a waterless American wasteland, populated by a peculiar cast of angels and ghosts, revolutionaries and academics, performance artists and desert hippies. Formulated as a case history of post apocalyptic times, How To Build a Home for the End of the World investigates the ways in which people understand memory, healing, and redemption in the throes of of ever-unraveling crisis.
dc.identifier.apacitationShinners, K. (2020). <i>How to build a home for the end of the World</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32347en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationShinners, Keely. <i>"How to build a home for the end of the World."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32347en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationShinners, K. 2020. How to build a home for the end of the World. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32347en_ZA
dc.identifier.risTY - Master Thesis AU - Shinners, Keely AB - How To Build a Home for the End of the World is a magical realist dystopian road trip novel by Keely Shinners. Donny is a carpenter who renovates houses nobody lives in. His daughter, Mary-Beth, is hell-bent on donating her organs to her chronically ill ex-girlfriend, Aida. Together, they go on a road trip across a waterless American wasteland, populated by a peculiar cast of angels and ghosts, revolutionaries and academics, performance artists and desert hippies. Formulated as a case history of post apocalyptic times, How To Build a Home for the End of the World investigates the ways in which people understand memory, healing, and redemption in the throes of of ever-unraveling crisis. DA - 2020_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - English Language KW - Literature LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2020 T1 - ETD: How to build a home for the end of the World TI - ETD: How to build a home for the end of the World UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32347 ER -en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/32347
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationShinners K. How to build a home for the end of the World. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2020 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32347en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literature
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.subjectEnglish Language
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.titleHow to build a home for the end of the World
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelMA
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