Humour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of redness
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Date
2005
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
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.
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Magister Artium - MA
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South African wit and humor, Humor in literature, Mda Zakes 1948, Criticism and interpretation