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An Unforgiving Past |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Okey Ndibe |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 3,847 Words, 24,244 Characters |
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THE HEART OF REDNESS
Zakes Mda
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002
288 pp., $24.00
WAYS OF DYING
Zakes Mda
New York: Picador, 2002
212 pp., $13.00
South Africa may have emerged from its long night of apartheid, one of the most savage creeds of racial hierarchy ever invented by man, but the country is sundered still by the scars and memory of rabid racism--and by apartheid's potent vestiges. If it's true that epochal tragedies provoke great literature, then South African writers have more than proved themselves equal to the task of narrating the sordidness bequeathed by apartheid; their works have also resounded with the tropes of resistance, defiant expressions of humanity, and, indeed, heroism.
Even so, there's been a paradox. While apartheid's main victims were blacks ...
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...e certainly besieged by hell on earth. Still, in connecting with simple gestures that bear weighty consequences, they can both heal themselves and permit themselves space within which to live. In leading his readers to that wondrous vision, Mda finally transcends the province of death. His art is defiant. It sings stubbornly, celebrating not the rude spectacle of death but the quiet power of life.
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