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Mda, Zakes.
Subjects
Apartheid -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Fiction.
Group identity -- Fiction.
Mother and child -- Fiction.
Racially mixed children -- Fiction.
Black fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
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Mda, Zakes.
Apartheid -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Fiction.
Group identity -- Fiction.
Mother and child -- Fiction.
Racially mixed children -- Fiction.
Black fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
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The
Madonna
of
Excelsior
/ Zakes Mda.
by
Mda, Zakes.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2004.
Call #:
FICTION MDA
Subjects
Apartheid -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Fiction.
Group identity -- Fiction.
Mother and child -- Fiction.
Racially mixed children -- Fiction.
Black fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0374200084 (alk. paper)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
258 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
In 1971, nineteen citizens of
Excelsior
in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between blacks and whites. Taking this case as raw material for his alchemic imagination, Zakes Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal -and of a country in which apartheid concealed interracial liaisons of every kind. Niki, the fallen
madonna
, transgresses boundaries for the sake of love; her choices have repercussions in the lives of her black son and mixed-race daughter, who come of age in post-apartheid South Africa, where freedom prompts them to reexamine their country's troubled history at first hand. By turns earthy, witty, and tragic, The
Madonna
of
Excelsior
is a brilliant depiction of life in South Africa and of the dramatic changes between the 1970s and the present.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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