Hyphen is a selection of twenty-eight poems (lyrical, narrative and persona poems) and two prose vignettes. The pieces explore ideas of memory, identity, emptiness, loss, love and joy. They are rooted in an itinerant experience of this world and question the concepts of belonging, home, usefulness, art, god and beauty. Most of the work has been inspired by places, moods and events in Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, England, Europe and South Africa. An individual's relationship to landscape, society and self, along with their personal interactions (with humans, animals and gods) form the basis for these poetic explorations of what it means to be in between. In between spaces. In between stages. Phases. Moods. Ideas. Weather patterns. People. In between here and there. Now and then. Home and away. Between the devil and the deep blue sea.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/10596 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Van Schalkwyk, Tania |
| Publisher | University of Cape Town, Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master Thesis, Masters, MA |
| Format | application/pdf |
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