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Paper IV: Negotiating Identity in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction: A Study of the Selected Works of Zakes Mda and Lewis Nkosi [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (G)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
60/per sem
Max. Marks: 
100
Unit I: 
Unit I

South African Fiction: An Introduction

  • Gallagher, Susan Vanzanten. “The Backward Glance: History and The Novel in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 29, no. 3, 1997, pp. 376–95. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/29533222 [2].

 

 

Unit II: 
Unit II

Literature, Liberation and Post-Apartheid South African Fiction

 

 

Unit III: 
Unit III

Existentialism and South African Fiction

  • Bassey, Magnus O. “What Is Africana Critical Theory or Black Existential Philosophy?” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 37, no. 6, 2007, pp. 914–35. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40034961 [4].

 

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

ZakesMda

  • Mda, Zakes. Ways of Dying. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 1995.

___. The Heart of Redness: A Novel. United States, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

  • Fincham, Gail. “Chapter One: Zakes Mda’s construction of the ‘cross-border’”Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa. Greece, Ohio University Press, 2012, pp.1-18.

 

Unit V: 
Unit V

Lewis Nkosi

  • Nkosi, Lewis. Mating Birds. United Kingdom, Kwela Books, 2004.
  • ___. Underground People. United Kingdom, Ayebia Clarke, 2005.
  • Mngadi, Sikhumbuzo. “Exile and Earthly Paradise: Counter-Critique and the Debts of Race in Lewis Nkosi.” English in Africa, vol. 39, no. 3, 2012, pp. 47–63. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24389444 [5].

 

Source Books: 

Suggested Readings:

 

Barnard, Rita. “On Laughter, the Grotesque, and the South African Transition: Zakes Mda’s

Ways of Dying.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 37, no. 3, 2004, pp. 277–302. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40267596 [6].

 

Brown, Duncan. “Reimagining the ‘Literary’ in South African Literary Studies.” English in

Africa, vol. 43, no. 3, 2016, pp. 141–66. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26359342 [7]

 

Goyal, Yogita. “The Pull of the Ancestors: Slavery, Apartheid, and Memory in Zakes Mda’s

Ways of Dying and Cion.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 42, no. 2, 2011, pp. 147–69. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.42.2.147 [8].

 

Fincham, Gail. Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa. South Africa, UCT Press, 2011.

Helgesson, Stefan. “Literature, Locality and Value in Apartheid South Africa.” Decolonisations

of Literature: Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945, Liverpool University Press, 2022, pp. 27–64. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2hbr276.5 [9].

 

Mattera, Don. “Literature for Liberation.” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, no. 10,

1986, pp. 135–37. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42744395 [10].

 

“Notes in Transition.” Transition, no. 15, 1964, pp. 46–48. JSTOR,

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2934371 [11].

 

Goyal, Yogita. “Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Gail

Fincham.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 44, no. 4, 2013, pp. 168–70. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.44.4.168 [12].

 

Stone, Leonard. “African Consciousness.” Journal of African American Studies, vol. 22, no. 2/3, 2018, pp. 236–54. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45200256 [13].

Therborn, Göran. “RACISM, EXISTENTIAL INEQUALITY AND PROBLEMS OF CATEGORICAL EQUALISATION: Reflections on the South African Experience.” The Effects of Race, edited by Nina G. Jablonski and Gerhard Maré, African Sun Media, 2018, pp. 35–52. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nzg1rh.6 [14]

Academic Year: 
2022-2023 [15]

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[7] http://www.jstor.org/stable/26359342
[8] https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.42.2.147
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[11] http://www.jstor.org/stable/2934371
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