Dance of life: the novels of Zakes Mda in post-apartheid South Africa
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| Beschreibung: | First published 2011 by UCT Press, Claremont, South Africa Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-174) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxv, XVI, 182 p. Ill. 23 cm |
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Acknowledgements
............................................. ix
Introduction
................................................. xiii
Zakes
Mda
.................................................... xiii
Why Dance of Life
?........................................... xv
Towards an ethics of performance
................................ xvi
From play-writing to novel-writing
............................... xviii
Written texts and oral storytelling
............................... xx
Social realism or magic realism?
................................. xxi
Vision/focalisation
............................................. xxiii
Place/setting/landscape
......................................... xxiv
Chapter One: Zakes Mda s construction of the cross-border
reader
.................................................... 1
Introduction
................................................... 1
Maps, writers, readers and communities under apartheid
............. 1
From
pre-
to post-apartheid South Africa
.......................... 2
What is a South African readership?
.............................
S
The concept of ubuntu as constitutive of the cross-border writer and
reader
.................................................... 4
From interstitial space to the space of novel-writing
................ 4
Refiguring temporality
......................................... 7
Crossing textual boundaries
..................................... 10
Hybridity
as
postcolonial
strategy
................................ 10
Hybridity
and intertextuality in Mda s novels
...................... 11
Mda s intertexts
............................................... 11
Finally.
....................................................... 18
Chapter Two: Appropriating urban space : Ways of Dying
....... 19
Introduction: Why Bakhtin?
..................................... 19
The social realism of Ways of Dying
............................... 21
Heteroglossia and states of transition
...........—............... 23
That stuck-up bitch
Noria
...................................... 26
Carnival, grotesque realism, degradation
.......................... 29
Laughing truth and the speaking voice
...-----.................... 32
Dance of Life
Chapter Three: From the speaking voice to intertextuality in
The Heart of Redness
..................................... 34
Introduction
................................................... 34
Community and agency in The Heart of Redness and Joseph Conrad s
Heart of Darkness
........................................... 34
Shared terrain
................................................. 37
Salient contrasts
............................................... 41
Mda
in the classroom: The Heart of Redness
......................... 47
Finally
........................................................ 58
Duplicity, plagiarism or transformation? Zakes Mda s The Heart of
Redness and Jeff Peires The Dead Will Arise
..................... 59
Continuities: oral storytelling
.................................... 65
Reversing barbarism and civilisation
............................ 66
New directions
................................................ 67
Focalisation
................................................... 61
Reconceptualising Believers and Unbelievers
....................... 69
Reading The Dead Will Arise and The Heart of Redness through
Attridge s The Singularity of Literature
......................... 73
Finally
........................................................ 74
Chapter Four: Towards a new ontology of
postcolonial
vision:
The Madonna of Excelsior
................................. 76
Introduction
................................................... 76
In the Trinity s studio
.......................................... 77
Ecphrasis: turning paintings into fiction
........................... 79
Women, donkeys, sunflowers
.................................... 83
Appropriating the Madonna motif
................................ 86
Chapter Five: Art, landscape and identity in She Plays with the
Darkness, The Madonna of Excelsior and Cion
.............. 89
Introduction
................................................... 89
She Plays with the Darkness
....................................... 91
The Madonna of Excelsior
..............___...................... 94
Cion
..........................................................
1OO
Chapter Six: Imaginary homelands: Diaspora and identity in
Cion
..................................................... 105
The concept of diaspora
......................................... 105
Narrating identity; South Africa and the United States
...............
Ill
vi
Contents
Narrating identity through the narratives of the past
................ 113
Performing identity
............................................ 117
Toloki takes over from the Sciolist
................................ 120
Finally.
....................................................... 124
Chapter Seven: Our only physical and psychic home : Ecology
and community in The Whale Caller
....................... 125
An eco-criticism for South Africa
................................. 127
Dismantling dualisms
.......................................... 129
The sympathetic imagination/Becoming animal
....................
ISO
Storytelling
................................................... 131
Storytelling as political activism
................................. 133
The sensorium of story telling
.................................... 135
Stories emotional hue
.......................................... 138
Towards an ecological sublime
................................... 140
Rethinking language
........................................... 142
Finally.
....................................................... 145
Chapter Eight: The trenches are the boardrooms of South Africa :
Black Diamond
............................................. 147
Stereotypes and formulae
....................................... 147
Soweto and cookery
............................................ 149
Camera eye narration: ideological considerations
................... 153
Riding the tiger
................................................ 155
Black Diamond and Jacob Dlamini s Native Nostalgia
................. 156
Finally.
....................................................... 158
Chapter Nine: Some concluding thoughts
....................... 159
Bibliography
.................................................. 163
Index
......................................................... 175
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