{"product_id":"dance-of-life-gail-fincham-9780821419939","title":"Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, the work of Zakes Mda-novelist, painter, composer, theater director and filmmaker-has attracted worldwide critical attention. Gail Fincham's book examines the five novels Mda has written since South Africa's transition to democracy: \u003ci\u003eWays of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Redness\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eThe Madonna of Excelsior\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Whale Caller\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and \u003ci\u003eCion\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). \u003ci\u003eDance of Life\u003c\/i\u003e explores how refigured identity is rooted in Mda's strongly painterly imagination that creates changed spaces in memory and culture. Through a combination of magic realism, African orature, and intertextuality with the Western canon, Mda rejects dualistic thinking of the past and the present, the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead, the rural and the urban. He imbues his fictional characters with the power to orchestrate a reconfigured subjectivity that is simultaneously political, social, and aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gail Fincham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821419935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821419939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/27\/2012 pg. 18","brand":"Gail Fincham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120348983551,"sku":"9780821419939","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7c0ba3a0-f569-4d45-b60a-eeaf2a581e98.jpg?v=1687413843","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dance-of-life-gail-fincham-9780821419939","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}