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Chaka, Ponny Piet. "Mokotaba le kgohlano ho Ditshwantshiso tsa Zakes Mda." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50026.

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Thesis (MA) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2004.<br>Examines theme and conflict in the drama Ditshwantshiso tsa Zakes Mda, which was translated into Sesotho<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines theme and conflict in the drama Ditshwantshiso tsa Zakes Mda, which was translated into Sesotho by M.W. Tsiu, and published by Unisa Press, in 2002 in Pretoria. This drama book has five plays. Chapter 1, introduces the aims of study, problem identification as well as the organization of study. Chapter 2, deals with literature review on theme and conflict. Chapter 3, is the analysis of theme an

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Lazley, Christopher Paul. "Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8945.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92).<br>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 didact

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Liazidi, Hamid. "Les oeuvres de Zakes MDA : Idéologie, dramaturgie et théâtralité." Nice, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997NICE2018.

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Le but de ce travail est de déterminer les spécificités idéologiques et esthétiques ainsi que les traits distinctifs de l'écriture de MDA par rapport à celle des autres écrivains noirs sud-africains. Afin de démontrer le caractère novateur et distingue de l'œuvre de MDA, nous avons opté pour une approche éclectique et comparative. La première partie de notre recherche est consacrée au rapport entre la dramaturgie et l'engagement de MDA. Elle montre, d'une part son idéologie libérale et modérée dans l'analyse du thème de l'oppression-libération, et d'autre part l'emploi d'une diversité de techn

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Pires, Ana Luísa de Oliveira Gonçalves. "Present, imagination and memory in Zakes Mda and Mia Couto." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/3946.

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Doutoramento em Literatura<br>Apesar de marcadas por contextos históricos e culturais distintos, é possível observar nas obras de dois dos autores mais significativos da África do Sul e de Moçambique, Zakes Mda e Mia Couto respectivamente, perspectivas semelhantes no que diz respeito à recuperação das memórias históricoculturais e à sua contribuição para a construção e compreensão das identidades pós-coloniais. Através da ficção, Zakes Mda e Mia Couto combinam a ligação da História a factos concretos com a necessidade de revelação associada à memória, criando assim espaços importantes p

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Valjee, Kiren. "The rediscovery of South African cultural identity in Zakes Mda's Ways of dying." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/267/.

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Agboluaje, Oladipo. "Constructions of identity in contemporary African drama : a comparative study of Wole Soyinka and Zakes Mda." Thesis, Open University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272894.

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Hagemann, Michael Eric. "Humour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of redness." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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This thesis sought to demonstrate that humour and the grotesque are the primary tools by which Mda achieve his postcolonial strategies of &quot<br>writing back&quot<br>, that is, of asserting an identity in the face of colonial pressures, apartheid and the growing selfishness of many in the new, post-democratic South African society.

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Van, Vuuren Sonja. "South African satire : a study of Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16455.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis analyses Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior from three different points of view, namely post-colonial, feminist and satirical. The latter constitutes the main interpretation of the novel and serves as a link with the other two discourses – the key argument being that satire is not a solipsistic form of art, and thus a satirical text should not be considered on its own, but should rather be interpreted in conjunction with other cultural discourses. This thesis is of the opinion that one needs all three of th

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Rudolf, Gabriel. "Ways of Dying : The depiction of Life and Death in Zakes Mda's novel." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10277.

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Abstract This bachelor’s essay focuses on the depictions of life and death in the novel Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda. It claims that the novel is mainly focusing on a concept of life although it is set in a time in South Africa which is filled with death. The theory being used in the essay is mainly the postcolonial theory by Elleke Boehmer regarding terror since her definitions of terror corresponds very well to what is written in the novel. To add to this postcolonial theorist the essay has a feature of the structuralist binaries to enhance the focus upon the dichotomies of Life and Death. The

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Jacobs, Anthony Richard. "Flying in the face of convention: "The heart of redness" as rehabilitative of the South African pastoral literary tradition through the frame of universal myth." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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This thesis analyzed Zakes Mda's The Heart of redness in the tradition of South African pastoral and counter-pastoral. It proposed that the novel is a hybrid of both African and European tradition and perspectives. It adduced Northrop Frye's theory of myth and archetypes in literature as a basis for study. It also analysed the novel in its use of irony.

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Feldbrügge, Astrid [Verfasser], and Hilary [Akademischer Betreuer] Dannenberg. "Nostalgia, Home and Be-longing in Contemporary Postapartheid Fiction by Zakes Mda and Ivan Vladislavić / Astrid Feldbrügge. Betreuer: Hilary Dannenberg." Bayreuth : Universität Bayreuth, 2010. http://d-nb.info/105990876X/34.

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Ibinga, Stephane Serge. "The representation of women in the works of three South African novelists of the transition." Thesis, Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1100.

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Thesis (DLitt (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.<br>The dissertation focuses on literary representation of female characters in selected novels by three particular South African writers working within the transitional phase (from the formal ending of apartheid up to the present) of South African history. By means of textual analysis, the study investigates how the representation of numerous female characters in these texts reflects on and reflects the sector of South African society that forms the social setting of each text. This thesis explores the portrayal of female characters i

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Crous, Matthys Lourens. "Presentations of masculinity in a selection of male-authored post-apartheid novels." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1672.

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Mashau, Godani Samuel. "Myth as a tool of literary, socio-economic, cultural and political liberation in selected works of Naguib Mahfouz, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Zakws Mda." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/849.

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Steele, Dorothy Winifred. "Interpreting redness: a literary biography of Zakes Mda." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1736.

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This study of Zakes Mda's life and sixteen of his plays and seven novels, written from 1966 to the present day, set in South Africa, Lesotho and the United States of America, shows how his life and works interweave, and how his defamiliarisation mode, his magic realism and his juxtaposed timeframes stimulate reader response and self-realisation, bringing about change. Experiences of marginalisation due to early childhood sexual abuse, exile, and being banished from church, and his involvement in political movements outside the mainstream, have caused him to be an astute observer of life

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Naidoo, Venugopaul. "Magic realism in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995) and She Plays with the Darkness (1995)." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8599.

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I shall argue in this thesis that Zakes Mda's novels Ways of Dying (l995a) and She Plays with the Darkness (1995b) are magic realist texts that are representative of the hybrid nature of this literary mode. Furthermore I shall demonstrate that Ways of Dying (l995a) and She Plays with the Darkness (1995b) share common elements with a variety of magic realist texts. Mda's own creative and literary consciousness has been shaped by an intellectual background stemming from tertiary education at Ph.D level, his teaching positions at various international universities, and his knowledge of African fo

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Ndibe, Okey. "History and memory in the fiction of Chinua Achebe, John Edgar Wideman, and Zakes Mda." 2009. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3379998.

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This dissertation explores the nature and context of the dialogue between African and African American writers, buttressed by the extensive use of history and memory by Chinua Achebe, John Edgar Wideman, and Zakes Mda, the three writers at the center of this study. Through the reading of three primary texts – Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Wideman’s The Cattle Killing, and Mda’s The Heart of Redness – the dissertation examines not only the writers’ engagement with memory and history but also their deployment of “African” metaphysics, modes of apprehension and narrative traditions. The study foreg

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Mahasha, Thabo Widley. "African identity : the study of Zakes Mda 's Madonna of excelsior and Bessie Head's Maru." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1386.

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Thesis (M.A. (English Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2014<br>This study discusses African identity as portrayed in Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and Bessie Head’s Maru (1971). It explores identity and its subcomponents within the South African context as asserted in these novels. Mda employs a retrospective communal voice that blends historical accounts with fiction in order to subvert and satirise apartheid nationalism. Head, on the other hand, constructs a positive image of feminine identity in the world characterised by tribalism, patriarchal system and stereotypica

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Grzęda, Paulina. "Alterity and Entangled Temporality: History in Selected Works by André Brink, J.M. Coetzee and Zakes Mda." Doctoral thesis, 2018. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/3057.

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Almost twenty five years after the decline of apartheid the construction of a unified non-racial nation out of the historically-based cultural and institutional divisions that still beset it remains South Africa’s key challenge. Yet, the birth of a unified South African nation would out of necessity need to be paralleled by a profound re-interrogation of the past in South African society’s attempt to translate and offer ways of coming to terms with the traumatic legacies of apartheid and colonialism. Indeed, bearing in mind that all South Africans are to some extent 'a wounded people', in a so

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Mazibuko, Nokuthula. "Mothers, madonnas and musicians: A writing of Africa's women as symbols and agents of change in the novels of Zakes Mda." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4725.

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Abstract My dissertation interrogates the ways in which Zakes Mda has made women central to his novels. I argue that the women characters in Mda's novels are key to the idea of the rebirth of Africa (and the simultaneous birth of a (South) African identity) a rebirth made necessary by years of dispossession through colonialism and apartheid. I will explore how on one level Mda, through magical realism, represents women as symbols of both destruction and construction; and how on another level he represents them as complex characters existing as agents of history. Mda’s novels: Ways o

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Birama, Prosper Ndayi. "African Traditional Culture and modernity in Zakes Mda's The heart of redness." Thesis, 2008. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1209_1260524619.

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<p>&nbsp<br></p> <p>&nbsp<br></p> <p align="left">In my thesis entitled &lsquo<br>African Tradition and Modernity in Zakes Mda&rsquo<br>s <i><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Heart of Redness&rsquo<br></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">, I analyze the way Western modernity and African traditions interact in Mda&rsquo<br>s novel. I suggest that both modernity and tradition interact to produce a hybrid culture. This will become apparent in my analysis of the way Mda depicts the cattlekilling epis

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Saccaggi, Carolina Francesca. "The reinvention of historical discourse in Zakes Mda's The heart of redness and Mike Nicol's This day and age." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/5867.

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Post-apartheid South African fiction has been the subject of much heated debate. One specific aspect of this debate has revolved around the role of history in this fiction. This is linked to general concerns in the country around ways of understanding history, especially in relation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s research into the past. Tracing the lines of debate which emerged out of the discussions around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, this research report focuses on the way history is presented in two novels from the post-apartheid period. These novels are This

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Birama, Prosper Ndayi. "African traditional culture and modernity in Zakes Mda’s the heart of redness." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3641.

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Masters of Art<br>In my thesis entitled ‘African Tradition and Modernity in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness’, I analyze the way Western modernity and African traditions interact in Mda’s novel. I suggest that both modernity and tradition interact to produce a hybrid culture. This will become apparent in my analysis of the way Mda depicts the cattlekilling episode and the effects of Nongqawuse’s prophecy, and also in the novel’s contemporary characters. Mda shows the development of an African modernity through the semi-autobiographical figure of Camagu who is not slavishly indebted to Wester

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Lombardozzi, Letizia Maria. "Gender on the frontline : a comparative study of the female voice in selected plays of Athol Fugard and Zakes Mda." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/10448.

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It can be argued that critical scholarship has not satisfactorily commented on the portrayal of women in South African theatre by male playwrights. This dissertation will examine the presentation of the female voice in the selected plays of two playwrights, namely Athol Fugard and Zakes Mda, coming from different socio-historical and cultural backgrounds. This comparative study will re-interrogate the selected representative texts from a feminist perspective, and will compare Fugard's subversive distrust of the female voice juxtaposed against Mda's refreshing celebration of the female presence

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Makgato, Kgokologa Saltiel. "The portrayal of sexual abuse in Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior and J.M. Coetzee's disgrace: : a comparative study." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2269.

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Thesis (M.A. (English) -- University of Limpopo, 2010<br>This dissertation examines the way in which two South African novelists, Zakes Mda and J.M. Coetzee, portray the sexual abuse of women during the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. The two selected novels used in this research are The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) by Mda and Disgrace (2000) by Coetzee. The research, furthermore, analyses the attitudes of the sexual abusers and their victims in both eras as well as examines the effects of socio-economic imbalances that might have prompted the men to sexually abuse women whom they should be

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Mtheku, Raphael Vikinduku. "The examination of Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (2000) within a historical context." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/10405.

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Qokela, Nontsikelelo Primrose. "Perspectives on female characters in D.P.S. Monyaise's Ngaka, Mosadi Mooka and Zakes Mda's Black diamond / Nontsikelelo Primrose Qokela." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/13409.

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In this study, D.P.S. Monyaise’s Ngaka, Mosadi Mooka and Zakes Mda’s Black Diamond are analysed in relation to narrative perspectives on female characters. The main aim of this study is to show how cultural narrative perspectives apply in the comparative study in Ngaka, Mosadi Mooka and Black Diamond, to determine how female characters, particularly Diarona in Ngaka, Mosadi Mooka and Tumi in Black Diamond, are portrayed. The argument maintained in this study is that, although Monyaise in his Ngaka, Mosadi Mooka gives his female characters an exceptionally strong voice, the social and literary

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Pheto, Rakgomo. "Perspectives of tragedy in black South African drama : an analysis of selected plays by Zakes Mda, Mbongeni Ngema and Maishe Maponya / Rakgomo Pheto." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/16301.

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This dissertation focuses on the nature and manifestation of tragedy within African experience in selected plays written by black South African playwrights. The plays under discussion are We Shall Sing for the Fatherland (1973) by Zakes Mda, The Hungry Earth (1978) by Maishe Maponya, and Sarafina (1985) by Mbongeni Ngema. The many conflicting statements regarding the "death" and existence of tragedy in contemporary drama lead one to ask the following two fundamental questions: Can there be tragedy in contemporary South African drama and what structural devices are there to account for the mani

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Valjee, Kiren M. "The Rediscovery of South African Cultural Identity in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying." 2009. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/267.

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Since the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and his subsequent election to the presidency in 1994, South Africa certainly has not achieved the hopes and dreams of its people or for the rest of the continent. But despite bleak conditions, there are many who still have hope for their country. One of those people is Zakes Mda, and his hope is reflected in his novels. Yet, his novels remain complex. They do not provide all-encompassing solutions or answers to the problems that face the nation. But they do address questions with possibilities, suggestions, and innovation. The South Africa he create

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Ntuli, Zanele Nonhlanhla. "Gender and dramatic discourse with reference to Zakes Mda's selected plays." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26234.

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Text in English, Tswana and siSwati<br>This dissertation examines the multiplicity of social positions within which African women in the postcolonial era find themselves. It focuses on how the dramatic dialogue depicts the positions of women in Zakes Mda’sThe Nun’s Romantic Story, And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses and You Fool, How can the Sky Fall. The study is intended to explore the dramatic dialogue in these plays and to show whether there is any evidence of change in women’s positions. It seeks to demonstrate the extent to which the positions of women have changed and also how

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Krueger, Anton Robert. "Experiments in freedom : representations of identity in new South African drama : an investigation into identity formations in some post-apartheid play-texts published in English by South African writers, from 1994 - 2007." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29095.

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This thesis examines ways in which identities have been represented in new South African play texts. It begins by exploring various ways in which identity has been described from various philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspectives. In particular, the thesis describes its methodology in terms of Gilles Deleuze's definition of "rhizomatic" structures. The introduction also elaborates ways in which drama is uniquely suited to represent ¨C as well as to effect ¨C transformations of identity. The thesis then moves on to an examination of specific texts in terms of four broad areas

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