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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.advisorMoolman, Jacobus Philippus.
dc.contributor.authorJennings, Karen.
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-17T08:29:42Z
dc.date.available2015-11-17T08:29:42Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionPh. D. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2014.en
dc.description.abstractTravels 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.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/12572
dc.language.isoen_ZAen
dc.subjectIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literature.en
dc.subjectSetting (Literature)en
dc.subjectTravel writing.en
dc.subjectBiography.en
dc.subjectMemory in literature.en
dc.subjectNarration (Rhetoric)en
dc.subjectTheses--English.en
dc.titleTravels 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.typeThesisen

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