There's another story here

Abstract

Written in fragments and combining fiction and narrative non-fiction, this novella explores how South Africa's history of violence and current violence against women affects and influences how women relate to each other. Based in the knowledge that our memories and behaviours are linked to the experiences of our ancestors via our bodies, I engage what our violent history and the disappearing myths that are still embedded in our bloodstream mean for life today. Drawing on the experiences of several generations of women in my family, current affairs and the lives of women close to me, my novella picks at the fragile things that hold us together. I take influence from the prose poetry in Claudia Rankine's Citizen, and the use of fragmentation, myth and biography in Lydia Yuknavitch's A Chronology of Water and Lily Hoang's A Bestiary, and use an amalgam of genres to ask how we hold each other; how we breath, create, love and dream.