Justify the enemy: becoming human in South Africa
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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
2018
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Introduction: Zakes Mda and the Place of Writing by J.U. Jacobs 1
A Writing Life
Lessons from the Writing Life 21
Babel’s Happiness 25
Justify the Enemy: Becoming Human in South Africa 30
The Pink Mountain: Landscapes and the Conception of
a Literature of Public Action 41
On Writing Historical Fiction vs Fictionalised History:
Lessons from Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi 54
Write What You Don’t Know: An Outsider’s Reflections
on Place, Memory and the Creative Process 70
Filling the Void: Negotiating Memoir, Autobiography and
Memoirs 79
A Writer and Human Rights
Interview: Zakes Mda in Conversation with Michèle Betty 95
Fiction and Politics 100
Free Eskinder Nega 102
Rwanda Gacaca 105
Creativity in the New South Africa
Excellence Would be Meaningless without Mediocrity:
Interview with Zakes Mda 113
Creativity after Apartheid 116
Bikos Children 127
The Fiction of Reconciliation: Creating Dialogue through
Verbal and Performance Arts in South Africa 142
A Storage Place of Memory 161
Parody, Satire and the Carnivalesque in Interactive African
Theatre 168
Some Observations on Culture and the African Malaise 182
The State of the Nation
Ten Years of Democracy 201
What it Means to be an African: Shifting Identities in the
South African Context 205
A Letter to Mandela 216
The Contradictions of Mandela 222
After Mandela: South Africa and the Culture of Human Rights 225
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Twenty Years of Freedom 232
The Myth of Colour Blindness in South Africa 236
Our Twin Pathologies: Conspicuous Consumption and
Instant Gratification 238
Do We Need Patriotic Journalism? 247
Earth Matters
A Perspective on Global Warming 263
A Further Perspective on Global Warming 265
Notes 269
JUSTIFY THE ENEMY
This book is a collection of non-fiction by the prolific author Zakes Mda. It
showcases his role as a public intellectual with the inclusion of public lectures,
essays and media articles. Mda focuses on South Africa’s history and the present,
identity and belonging, the art of writing, human rights, global warming and why
he is unable to keep silent on abuses of power.
Some of his best-known novels include of Dying (1995, MNet Book
Prize); The Heart of Redness (2000, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize: Africa, and
Sunday Times Fiction Prize); The Madonna ofExcelsior (2002, one of the Top Ten
South African books published in the Decade of Democracy); The Whale Caller
(2005); Cion (2007); Black Diamond (2009); The Sculptors
(2013); Rachel’s Blue (2014); and Little Suns (2015, Sunday Times Literary
Award).
ZAKES MDA was bom in Herschel in the Eastern Cape in 1948 and studied in
South Africa, Lesotho and the United States. He wrote his first short story at the
age of fifteen and has since won major South African and British literary awards
for his novels and plays. His writing has been translated into twenty languages.
Mda is an emeritus professor of English at Ohio University and extraordinary
professor of English at the University of the Western Cape.
J.U. JACOBS is an emeritus professor and senior research associate at the
University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the co-editor of Ways Writing: Critical
Essays on Zakes Mda (2009) and author of Diaspora and Identity in South African
Fiction (2016).
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