Woodward, WHagemann, Michael EricDept. of EnglishFaculty of Arts2013-06-202024-10-302007/03/282007/03/282013-06-202024-10-302005https://hdl.handle.net/10566/16442Magister Artium - MAThis 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.enSouth African wit and humorHumor in literatureMda Zakes 1948Criticism and interpretationThesisUniversity of the Western Cape