Humour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of redness

Magister Artium - MA === This thesis sought to demonstrate that humour and the grotesque are the primary tools by which Mda achieve his postcolonial strategies of "writing back" that is, of asserting an identity in the face of colonial pressures, apartheid and the growing selfishne...

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Main Author:	Hagemann, Michael Eric
Other Authors:	Woodward, W
Language:	en
Published:	University of the Western Cape 2013
Subjects:	South African wit and humor Humor in literature Mda Zakes 1948 Criticism and interpretation
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1526

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description	Magister Artium - MA === This thesis sought to demonstrate that humour and the grotesque are the primary tools by which Mda achieve his postcolonial strategies of "writing back" 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. === South Africa
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title	Humour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of redness
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Humour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of redness

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