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Dance of life : the novels of Zakes Mda in post-apartheid South Africa /
In recent years, the work of Zakes Mda-novelist, painter, composer, theater director and filmmaker-has attracted worldwide critical attention. Gail Fincham's book examines the five novels Mda has written since South Africa's transition to democracy: Ways of Dying (1995), The Heart of Redne...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; Zakes Mda; Why 'Dance of Life'?; Towards an ethics of performance; From play-writing to novel-writing; Written texts and oral storytelling; Social realism or magic realism?; Vision/focalisation; Place/setting/landscape; Chapter One: Zakes Mda's Construction of The 'Cross-Border' Reader; Introduction; Maps, writers, readers and communities under apartheid; From pre- to post-apartheid South Africa; What is a 'South African' readership?; The concept of ubuntu as constitutive of the cross-border writer and reader.
- From 'interstitial' space to the space of novel-writingRefiguring temporality; Crossing textual boundaries; Hybridity as postcolonial strategy; Hybridity and intertextuality in Mda's novels; Mda's intertexts; Finally ... ; Chapter Two: 'Appropriating Urban Space'; Introduction: Why Bakhtin?; The social realism of Ways of Dying; Heteroglossia and states of transition; 'That stuck-up bitch' Noria; Carnival, grotesque realism, degradation; 'Laughing truth' and the speaking voice; Chapter Three: From 'The Speaking Voice' to Intertextuality in The Heart of Redness; Introduction.
- Community and agency in The Heart of Redness andJoseph Conrad's Heart of DarknessShared terrain; Salient contrasts; Mda in the classroom: The Heart of Redness; Duplicity, plagiarism or transformation? Zakes Mda's The Heart ofRedness and Jeff Peires' The Dead Will Arise; Continuities: oral storytelling; Reversing 'barbarism' and 'civilisation'; New directions; Focalisation; Reconceptualising Believers and Unbelievers; Reading The Dead Will Arise and The Heart of Redness throughAttridge's The Singularity of Literature; Finally ... ; Chapter Four: Towards a New Ontology of Postcolonial Vision.
- IntroductionIn the Trinity's studio; Ecphrasis: turning paintings into fiction; Women, donkeys, sunflowers; Appropriating the Madonna motif; Chapter Five: Art, Landscape and Identity in She Plays with the Darkness, The Madonna of Excelsior and Cion; Introduction; She Plays with the Darkness; The Madonna of Excelsior; Cion; Chapter Six: Imaginary Homelands; The concept of diaspora; Narrating identity: South Africa and the United States; Narrating identity through the narratives of the past; Performing identity; Toloki takes over from the Sciolist; Finally ...
- Chapter Seven: 'Our Only Physical and Psychic Home'An eco-criticism for South Africa; Dismantling dualisms; The sympathetic imagination/Becoming animal; Storytelling; Storytelling as political activism; The sensorium of storytelling; Stories' 'emotional hue'; Towards an ecological sublime; Rethinking language; Finally ... ; Chapter Eight: 'The Trenches are The Boardrooms of South Africa':; Stereotypes and formulae; Soweto and cookery; 'Camera eye' narration: ideological considerations; Riding the tiger; Black Diamond and Jacob Dlamini's Native Nostalgia; Finally ... ; Chapter Nine.