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Dance of Life [[electronic resource] ] : The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa / / Gail Fincham
| Dance of Life [[electronic resource] ] : The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa / / Gail Fincham |
| Autore | Fincham Gail |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, : Ohio University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.914 |
| Soggetto topico | South African literature (English) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8214-4414-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Zakes Mda; Why 'Dance of Life' ?; Towards an ethics of performance; From play-writing to novel-writing; Written texts and oral storytelling; Social realism or magic realism?; Vision/focalisation; Place/setting/landscape; Chapter One: Zakes Mda's Construction of The 'Cross-Border' Reader; Introduction; Maps, writers, readers and communities under apartheid; From pre- to post-apartheid South Africa; What is a 'South African' readership?; The concept of ubuntu as constitutive of the cross-border writer and reader
From 'interstitial' space to the space of novel-writing Refiguring temporality; Crossing textual boundaries; Hybridity as postcolonial strategy; Hybridity and intertextuality in Mda's novels; Mda's intertexts; Finally...; Chapter Two: 'Appropriating Urban Space'; Introduction: Why Bakhtin?; The social realism of Ways of Dying; Heteroglossia and states of transition; 'That stuck-up bitch' Noria; Carnival, grotesque realism, degradation; 'Laughing truth' and the speaking voice; Chapter Three: From 'The Speaking Voice' to Intertextuality in The Heart of Redness; Introduction Community and agency in The Heart of Redness and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Shared terrain; Salient contrasts; Mda in the classroom: The Heart of Redness; Duplicity, plagiarism or transformation? Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness and Jeff Peires' The Dead Will Arise; Continuities: oral storytelling; Reversing 'barbarism' and 'civilisation'; New directions; Focalisation; Reconceptualising Believers and Unbelievers; Reading The Dead Will Arise and The Heart of Redness through Attridge's The Singularity of Literature; Finally...; Chapter Four: Towards a New Ontology of Postcolonial Vision: Introduction In the Trinity's studio; Ecphrasis: turning paintings into fiction; Women, donkeys, sunflowers; Appropriating the Madonna motif; Chapter Five: Art, Landscape and Identity in She Plays with the Darkness, The Madonna of Excelsior and Cion; Introduction; She Plays with the Darkness; The Madonna of Excelsior; Cion; Chapter Six: Imaginary Homelands; The concept of diaspora; Narrating identity: South Africa and the United States; Narrating identity through the narratives of the past; Performing identity; Toloki takes over from the Sciolist; Finally... Chapter Seven: 'Our Only Physical and Psychic Home'An eco-criticism for South Africa; Dismantling dualisms; The sympathetic imagination/Becoming animal; Storytelling; Storytelling as political activism; The sensorium of storytelling; Stories' 'emotional hue'; Towards an ecological sublime; Rethinking language; Finally...; Chapter Eight: 'The Trenches are The Boardrooms of South Africa':; Stereotypes and formulae; Soweto and cookery; 'Camera eye' narration: ideological considerations; Riding the tiger; Black Diamond and Jacob Dlamini's Native Nostalgia; Finally...; Chapter Nine Some Concluding Thoughts |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452006303321 |
Fincham Gail
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| Athens, : Ohio University Press, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The English Academy review
| The English Academy review |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johannesburg, : English Academy of Southern Africa, 1983- |
| Disciplina | 420.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
South African literature (English) - 20th century
English literature English language - Africa Littérature sud-africaine (anglaise) - 20e siècle Littérature anglaise Anglais (Langue) - Afrique English language South African literature (English) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
English language
English literature South African literature (English) |
| ISSN | 1753-5360 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | EAR |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996207243103316 |
| Johannesburg, : English Academy of Southern Africa, 1983- | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The English Academy review
| The English Academy review |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johannesburg, : English Academy of Southern Africa, 1983- |
| Disciplina | 420.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
South African literature (English) - 20th century
English literature English language - Africa Littérature sud-africaine (anglaise) - 20e siècle Littérature anglaise Anglais (Langue) - Afrique English language South African literature (English) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
English language
English literature South African literature (English) |
| ISSN | 1753-5360 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | EAR |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910263043703321 |
| Johannesburg, : English Academy of Southern Africa, 1983- | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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