Mothers, madonnas and musicians: A writing of Africa's women as symbols and agents of change in the novels of Zakes Mda

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 ye...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mazibuko, Nokuthula
Format: Others
Language:es
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Mda
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4725