Flying in the face of convention: The heart of redness as rehabilitative of the South African pastoral literary tradition through the frame of universal myth

Merrington, PeterJacobs, Anthony RichardFaculty of Arts2013-06-192024-03-252007/03/302007/03/302013-06-192024-03-252005https://hdl.handle.net/10566/9599Magister Artium - MAThis thesis analyzed Zakes Mda's The Heart of redness in the tradition of South African pastoral and counter-pastoral. It proposed that the novel is a hybrid of both African and European tradition and perspectives. It adduced Northrop Frye's theory of myth and archetypes in literature as a basis for study. It also analysed the novel in its use of irony.enPastoral literatureHistory and criticismIrony in literatureZakes MdaFlying in the face of convention: The heart of redness as rehabilitative of the South African pastoral literary tradition through the frame of universal mythThesisUniversity of the Western Cape