Gail Fincham is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Cape Town.
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Dance of Life
The Novels of Zakes Mda in post-apartheid South Africa
By Gail Fincham
Dance of Life examines the five novels Zakes Mda—novelist, painter, composer, theater director and filmmaker—has written since South Africa’s transition to democracy: Ways of Dying (1995), The Heart of Redness (2000), The Madonna of Excelsior (2002), The Whale Caller (2005), and Cion (2007).