Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl

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dc.contributor.advisorFincham, Gailen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLazley, Christopher Paulen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-30T13:46:05Z
dc.date.available2014-10-30T13:46:05Z
dc.date.issued2009en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe notion of place as something at once geographic, socio-cultural and psychological is a ubiquitous concern in the novels of Zakes Mda. It is surely not by chance that Mda's interest in the novelistic form, which materialised in the publication of Ways of Dying in 1995, was roughly coincident with South Africa's fledgling democracy a year earlier. The end of apartheid meant the opportunity of exploring new forms of cultural discourse untrammeled by the intense politicisation of art that had tended to collapse the literary with the didactic in rather one-dimensional ways. Mda's consideration of place, this thesis argues, is one instance of such an exploration. More specifically, it examines the intersection of the social and the spatial in two of his novels: Ways of Dying and The Heart of Redness. Starting at the junction of race, politics and literature, it moves into how the country's changing physical and political boundary lines have effected new ways of relating to its spaces. The focus of the Ways of Dying chapter is on urban space, where migrants and settled urbanites must reconcile the rather fragmented and cosmopolitan character of the city.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationLazley, C. P. (2009). <i>Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8945en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationLazley, Christopher Paul. <i>"Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8945en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLazley, C. 2009. Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Lazley, Christopher Paul AB - The notion of place as something at once geographic, socio-cultural and psychological is a ubiquitous concern in the novels of Zakes Mda. It is surely not by chance that Mda's interest in the novelistic form, which materialised in the publication of Ways of Dying in 1995, was roughly coincident with South Africa's fledgling democracy a year earlier. The end of apartheid meant the opportunity of exploring new forms of cultural discourse untrammeled by the intense politicisation of art that had tended to collapse the literary with the didactic in rather one-dimensional ways. Mda's consideration of place, this thesis argues, is one instance of such an exploration. More specifically, it examines the intersection of the social and the spatial in two of his novels: Ways of Dying and The Heart of Redness. Starting at the junction of race, politics and literature, it moves into how the country's changing physical and political boundary lines have effected new ways of relating to its spaces. The focus of the Ways of Dying chapter is on urban space, where migrants and settled urbanites must reconcile the rather fragmented and cosmopolitan character of the city. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 T1 - Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl TI - Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8945 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationLazley CP. Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2009 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8945en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnglish Literatureen_ZA
dc.titleSpaces and places in Zakes Mda : two noveslen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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