{"product_id":"dance-of-life-the-novels-of-zakes-mda-in-post-apartheid-south-africa-paperback","title":"Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGail Fincham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, the work of Zakes Mda-novelist, painter, composer, theater director and filmmaker-has attracted worldwide critical attention. Gail Fincham's book examines the five novels Mda has written since South Africa's transition to democracy: \u003ci\u003eWays of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Redness\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eThe Madonna of Excelsior\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Whale Caller\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and \u003ci\u003eCion\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). \u003ci\u003eDance of Life\u003c\/i\u003e explores how refigured identity is rooted in Mda's strongly painterly imagination that creates changed spaces in memory and culture. Through a combination of magic realism, African orature, and intertextuality with the Western canon, Mda rejects dualistic thinking of the past and the present, the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead, the rural and the urban. He imbues his fictional characters with the power to orchestrate a reconfigured subjectivity that is simultaneously political, social, and aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGail Fincham\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Cape Town. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130340544647,"sku":"9780821419939","price":52.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2c9959ee1fc45706418c74f57afd5399.webp?v=1732610075","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dance-of-life-the-novels-of-zakes-mda-in-post-apartheid-south-africa-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}