ENGL 2P53 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Shanty Town, Zakes Mda
8 Feb 2016
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Engl 2p53 zakes mda, ways of dying. You can see some of the dramatic influence in the novel, he was a playwright. Looks at oral media as well as written radio, plays, broadway, books. Has produced many stage and television drama as well as comic books. Setting group, nation, etc ) not about what helps it get by, but what will make the community flourish: violence breeds violence, mda translates african idioms into english (this is our brother, Style saw his death etc: uses magic realism, much like rushdie or latin american novelists such as garcia marquez or borges (fifteen month pregnancies, rebirth of vutha, uses humour, even when treating very serious subject matter. Enormous change politically often very little change economically. New possibility of democracy: source of home and aspiration for many poor people, in norias informal settlement, strong political organization. Informal arrangements between women to care for each others children (or unwanted children at the dumping ground)
