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Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa de Gail Fincham

Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa

Autor Gail Fincham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2023
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), The 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780821419939
ISBN-10: 0821419935
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press

Recenzii

“It is a committed, often engaging reading of the novels, with reference to the writer's dramaturgy as well.… In addition to an extended discussion of Mda's use of magical realism, the study also explores the controversy that surrounded the publication of Heart of Redness [2000], triggered by the historian Andrew Offenberger. … [The study is] an invaluable resource.”—Year’s Work in English Studies

“This book is intense, but it reads easily. Fincham educates through a progressive process of utilizing ‘known‘ literary territories. She draws the reader into her critical space by linking Edward Said, Ngugi wa Thiong'O, Frantz Fanon, and others to the writings of Mda.”—Examiner.com

“Gail Fincham’s comprehensive study of Zakes Mda’s post-apartheid novels is both readable and intellectually engaging…. (A) valuable consideration of Zakes Mda’s fiction. Professor Fincham has marshaled an impressive set of diverse scholarly arguments and managed to organize them into a convincing treatment of some of the most complex and evocative literature coming out of Africa today.”—African Studies Quarterly

Notă biografică

Gail Fincham is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Cape Town.

Descriere

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), The 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.