Storytelling and social commentary in a comparison of Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995) and Black Diamond (2009)
In a comparison of two novels, Ways of Dying (1995) and Black Diamond (2009), this dissertation examines Zakes Mda's ongoing use of fiction in presenting incisive social commentary in the post-apartheid literary context. Mda's debut novel is a complex magic realist tale of Toloki, the prof...
Main Author: | Thackwray, Sarah |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10948/7149 |
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