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

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dc.contributor.advisorWoodward, W
dc.contributor.authorHagemann, Michael Eric
dc.contributor.otherDept. of English
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Arts
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-20T13:22:28Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T08:52:10Z
dc.date.available2007/03/28 10:18
dc.date.available2007/03/28
dc.date.available2013-06-20T13:22:28Z
dc.date.available2024-10-30T08:52:10Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/16442
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectSouth African wit and humoren_US
dc.subjectHumor in literatureen_US
dc.subjectMda Zakes 1948en_US
dc.subjectCriticism and interpretationen_US
dc.titleHumour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of rednessen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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