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Dance of life - The novels of Zakes Mda, 1995-2007 (Paperback)
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Dance of life - The novels of Zakes Mda, 1995-2007 (Paperback)
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In recent years, the work of Zakes Mda - novelist, painter,
composer, theatre director and film-maker - has attracted worldwide
critical attention. As a novelist he writes about social identity
in the 'new' South Africa and it is the versions of this identity
that Gail Fincham's title explores, examining the five novels Mda
has written since South Africa's transition to democracy: Ways of
dying (1995), The Heart of Redness (2000), The Madonna of Excelsior
(2002), The Whale Caller (2005) and Cion (2007). His explorations
of refigured identity are rooted in his strongly painterly
imagination which teaches his readers how to see anew by creating
changed spaces in memory and culture. His novels are hybrids
equally composed of African responses to modernity deriving from an
oral culture and European multi-generic responses to modernity.
Through a combination of magic realism, African orature and
intertextuality with a Western canon, Mda undermines the dualistic
thinking characteristic of our Western heritage - whether between
the past and the present, the human and the non-human, 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.
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