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Title: | Zakes Mda: shifting female identities in 'The heart of redness' |
Authors: | Cloete, Nettie Madadzhe, Richard Ndwayamato |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | The English Academy Review |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 37-50 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | novels women identity |
About person: | Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (1948-) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17535360712331393459 |
Abstract: | This article examines the increasingly important roles assigned to female characters in Zakes Mda's postapartheid fiction. This is done against the background of a new trend in South African fiction where previously disadvantaged and silenced groups, especially women, have begun to articulate their problems and to assert themselves. Mda empowers his female characters to reveal themselves and their plight. The article focuses on the role of the present-day female characters in Mda's third novel, 'The heart of redness' (2000). In addition, the article illustrates how Mda's writing probes the myth of a utopian South Africa after the attainment of democracy, by using various artistic and aesthetic devices to reveal a myriad of seemingly insoluble problems facing the young democracy. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |