Moolman, Jacobus Philippus.Jennings, Karen.2015-11-172015-11-1720142014http://hdl.handle.net/10413/12572Ph. D. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2014.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-ZAIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literature.Setting (Literature)Travel writing.Biography.Memory in literature.Narration (Rhetoric)Theses--English.Thesis