Zakes Mda
Biographic Data
| ID | 299474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zakes Mda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zakes |
| FAMILY NAME | Mda |
| SIGNATURE | MDA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Pink Mountain
The Fiction of Reconciliation
Except for a small number of novels and short stories, South African writers have shied away from narrating reconciliation, and from creating work that draws its inspiration from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Publishers, in their gate-keeping role, have played a crucial role in the dearth of literature that responds to the TRC. In South Africa today it is difficult for a new writer to get narratives that are set in the apartheid …
A Response to “Duplicity and Plagiarism in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness ” by Andrew Offenburger
A RESPONSE to "Duplicity and Plagiarism in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness" by Andrew Offenburger Zakes Mda The Heart of Redness is a work of fiction and not a history textbook. Historical record is only utilized in the novel to serve my fiction–to give it context, for instance. In the historical segments the fiction centers on the patriarch Xikixa, his sons Twin and Twin-Twin, and his daughter-in-law Qukezwa. All these are fictional characters …
The Madonna of Excelsior
This novel is set in the Free State town of Excelsior from the 1970s to the time of political liberation in the 1990s. In the 1970s Excelsior was notorious for a series of across-the-colour-bar sex scandals involving white men - many of them pillars of the conservative Afrikaner establishment - and black women, some of whom bore mixed-race children as a result. Mda roots his story in this period and carries it through to the social and political …
Apartheid's Long Shadow
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Dankie Auntie A Play
Theatre for Children in South Africa
When People Play People
Learning from the ancient wisdom of Africa
And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses
Marotholi Travelling Theatre
My concern in this account is with theatre rather than drama, and I think it is important for us to clarify the distinction from the onset. 'Theatre' here refers to the production and communication of meaning in the performance itself, in other words a transaction or negotiation of meaning in a performer-spectator situation. 'Drama' on the other hand, refers to the literature on which performances are sometimes based, the mode of fiction designed…
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Marotholi Travelling Theatre
My concern in this account is with theatre rather than drama, and I think it is important for us to clarify the distinction from the onset. 'Theatre' here refers to the production and communication of meaning in the performance itself, in other words a transaction or negotiation of meaning in a performer-spectator situation. 'Drama' on the other hand, refers to the literature on which performances are sometimes based, the mode of fiction designed…
And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses
Learning from the ancient wisdom of Africa
When People Play People
Dankie Auntie A Play
Theatre for Children in South Africa
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Apartheid's Long Shadow
The Madonna of Excelsior
This novel is set in the Free State town of Excelsior from the 1970s to the time of political liberation in the 1990s. In the 1970s Excelsior was notorious for a series of across-the-colour-bar sex scandals involving white men - many of them pillars of the conservative Afrikaner establishment - and black women, some of whom bore mixed-race children as a result. Mda roots his story in this period and carries it through to the social and political …
A Response to “Duplicity and Plagiarism in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness ” by Andrew Offenburger
A RESPONSE to "Duplicity and Plagiarism in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness" by Andrew Offenburger Zakes Mda The Heart of Redness is a work of fiction and not a history textbook. Historical record is only utilized in the novel to serve my fiction–to give it context, for instance. In the historical segments the fiction centers on the patriarch Xikixa, his sons Twin and Twin-Twin, and his daughter-in-law Qukezwa. All these are fictional characters …
The Pink Mountain
The Fiction of Reconciliation
Except for a small number of novels and short stories, South African writers have shied away from narrating reconciliation, and from creating work that draws its inspiration from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Publishers, in their gate-keeping role, have played a crucial role in the dearth of literature that responds to the TRC. In South Africa today it is difficult for a new writer to get narratives that are set in the apartheid …
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