Travels with my Father - Placing the self : an original novel accompanied by an extended essay that investigates the localization of identity through its relationship to memory and place.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Moolman, Jacobus Philippus. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jennings, Karen. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-17T08:29:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-11-17T08:29:42Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2014 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description | Ph. D. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2014. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Travels with my Father is a memoir-travelogue that maps the author-narrator’s attempts at regaining a sense of place and re-affirming her identity after the death of her father and the sale of the family home. Using her own travels, her father’s travels, her mother’s move into a new home and the family history written by her father as a basic outline, the book engages with a complex network of personal and social issues. The dissertation component of the thesis examines Jennings’s attempt within Travels with my Father to regain a sense of self through analysing processes of place and possession attachment; through engaging with her ancestry on her father’s side; through travel both locally and abroad; and through critically examining the function of the written narrative that comprises the manuscript of the memoir-travelogue. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/12572 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en |
| dc.subject | Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. | en |
| dc.subject | Setting (Literature) | en |
| dc.subject | Travel writing. | en |
| dc.subject | Biography. | en |
| dc.subject | Memory in literature. | en |
| dc.subject | Narration (Rhetoric) | en |
| dc.subject | Theses--English. | en |
| dc.title | Travels with my Father - Placing the self : an original novel accompanied by an extended essay that investigates the localization of identity through its relationship to memory and place. | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |