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 Redness" (2000), T"he Madonna of
Excelsior" (2002), "The Whale Caller "(2005), and "Cion "(2007).
"Dance of Life" explores how refigured identity is rooted in Mda's
strongly painterly imagination that creates changed spaces in
memory and culture. Through a combination of magic realism, African
orature, and intertextuality with the Western canon, Mda rejects
dualistic thinking of the past and the present, the human and the
nonhuman, the living and the dead, the rural and the urban. He
imbues his fictional characters with the power to orchestrate a
reconfigured subjectivity that is simultaneously political, social,
and aesthetic.
General
Imprint: |
Ohio University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2012 |
First published: |
2012 |
Authors: |
Gail Fincham
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8214-1993-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8214-1993-5 |
Barcode: |
9780821419939 |
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