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	The Connection.org : Features
		Mda's sensibility; his offbeat satirical humour and his taste for the tragically weird are reflected in a favoured novel: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Of Love and Other Demons," the tale of 12-year-old Sierva Maria, bitten by a rabid dog and who dies of love in the convent where she is sent to be exorcized.
		Mda, a romantic who is moved by the vision of a better world coming, would have embraced this vision in the face of the colonialistic swoop on the lands, he says.
		Mda's ability to breach this divide, which is also the divide between permissibility and prohibition, allows him free rein to bring under fire the chauvinism that persists today and to ask whether progress must come at the cost of heritage.
	www.theconnection.org /features/zakesarticle.asp (1759 words)

	Ohio University Outlook
		Mda is particularly interested in the formation of the community, as well as life in the community today.
		Twice a week, Mda travels to Kilvert as part of his research, and since quilting is a major part of the WIN community (and will thus be a major part of his story), he is learning to quilt.
		Mda's latest novel, "The Whale Caller," a magical story of love and madness on the shores of the new South Africa, was published in the United Kingdom (Viking), Canada (Penguin) and South Africa (Penguin) in August 2005.
	www.ohio.edu /outlook/05-06/September/2f-056.cfm (1720 words)

	The Madonna of Excelsior Zakes Mda, Book Review in America, the Catholic magazine with book reviews, news, opinion & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Since Mda is now a major novelist in the country with the most AIDS cases, this apparent neglect is rather strange—all the more so since he has in fact been involved in AIDS education since 1985 and has produced many stage productions on the subject.
		Mda has said that the plot in his stories is the last thing on which he focuses attention—and some would fault him for this, since he seems rather to let things happen than to weave events into an obviously meaningful connection of the dots.
		Mda’s novels invite the reader into a strangely atmospheric and surreal world in which actual historical events and, in some cases, actual historical figures, enter the frame of our view and play their part, and time moves along.
	americamagazine.org /BookReview.cfm?textID=3659&...&issueID=489 (1484 words)

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		By the end of the novel, Mda's opening line sounds skeptical, questioning the easy divisions between good and evil and fl and white, showing lives in Excelsior to be intertwined, whatever side of the line they fall on.
		Mda's father helped found the African National Congress Youth League and was close to Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, icons of the anti-apartheid movement.
		And as an added result, Mda's work is an antidote to the preacherly political writing many South Africans felt compelled to produce during the apartheid years.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/print_review.asp?id=3586 (299 words)

	Zakes Mda (South Africa) Time of the Writer Festival 2004
		Prolific playwright, poet, journalist, painter, and author, Zakes Mda presently commutes between the USA (where he is Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Theory at Ohio University) and South Africa, where he runs a number of community projects and playwriting workshops.
		Zakes Mda is Founder and Trustee of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Program where he trains HIV positive people to write.
		Zakes Mda studied and worked in South Africa, Lesotho, the U.K. and U.S.A. and now devotes his time to writing and teaching.
	www.cca.ukzn.ac.za /images/tow/TOW2004/Mda.htm (468 words)

	Inlibris Bookstore - The Madonna of Excelsior : A Novel by Zakes Mda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mda uses the 1971 case of the Excelsior 19 as the focus of the first part of his account.
		Mda acknowledges that Afrikaners maintain their dreams of returning to power and depicts realistically the political conflicts within the fl leadership.
		South African writer Zakes Mda takes the notorious "Immorality Act" of South Africa's apartheid history, as well as a true event in South African history, which flowed from a violation of this law, and loosely weaves a fictionalized tale that will keep the reader turning the pages of this thematically complex book.
	www.inlibris.com /bookstore/main.pl?m=1&asin=0374200084 (1779 words)

	MDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Summary The publication of Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness in 2000, almost a...
		MDA broke ground at the Greely on June 15, 2002.
		The pen or the gun: Zakes Mda and the post-apartheid novel.
	hallencyclopedia.com /MDA (388 words)

	The Madonna of Excelsior - The Yale Review of Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mda dedicated the book to a bird that the artist drew for him during a visit to his Tweespruit studio.
		Mda paints his story onto a canvas that was not blank to begin with, one that had been imperfectly whitewashed to conceal the other novels painted beneath.
		Mda does not need to rely on describing Claerhout's paintings to give South Africa yellows and oranges and blues in addition to its fls and whites: he manages on his own to diversify the country.
	www.yalereviewofbooks.com /archive/winter05/review18.shtml.htm (1183 words)

	entertainment.iafrica.com \| books \| fiction Masterful Mda Weaves Magic Once Again
		Zakes Mda, internationally acclaimed South African playwright, novelist, painter and academic, once again weaves magic with his new novel "The Heart of Redness".
		Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, better known as Zakes Mda, is an award winning and internationally acclaimed South African playwright, novelist, painter and academic.
		As well as contributing towards numerous books and journals, Zakes Mda has also published a volume of poetry, several anthologies of plays, and the novels: She Plays With the Darkness (1995), Melville 67 (1998) and Ways of Dying (1995) - winner of the M-Net Book Prize in 1997.
	entertainment.iafrica.com /books/fiction/144865.htm (522 words)

	village voice > books > The Heart of Redness and Ways of Dying, by Zakes Mda by Anderson Tepper
		Mda, the son of a founding member of the ANC, spent 32 years in exile, yet has returned to a South Africa that clearly inspires him with its new dilemmas and tensions—no longer fl and white, so to speak, but much more fluid and murky issues of identity and authenticity, progress and memory.
		Despite its lighthearted touches, though, as the title suggests, Mda's story is still rooted in the endemic violence that has long stained South Africa, particularly in the squatter-towns and settlements, where whites are peripheral presences and apartheid is only alluded to.
		Yet Mda leaves us, again, with a glimmer of possible harmony, as Camagu begins a successful cooperative society in the village and a movement is afoot to establish Qolorha-by-Sea as a protected national heritage site.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0233/tepper.php (898 words)

	Zakes Mda: Ways of Dying : A Novel - Køb Bøger: Totaltiorden.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The book is set in South Africa during a period that seems to span the end of the apartheid regime and focuses exclusively on the lives (and deaths) of poor South African Blacks in rural villages and urban shanty towns near what I suspect is Durban.
		Fans of Marquez will feel very much at home here in a world of "magical realism", yet while Mda may have been influenced by novels like 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE he has a voice that is uniquely his own, and one that I sense is profoundly rooted in Africa.
		Mda's "hero" is a self-declared Professional Mourner, who ekes out an existence at the edge of society.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/0312420919\|books\| (862 words)

	The Madonna of Excelsior, The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda - reviews
		Though Mda has no sympathy for the abuses inflicted by the Afrikaners who were in power for so long, he reveals a broad vision of a future that includes both races working together.
		In doing so, Mda hits at the core of what it means to be human: the joys, tears, hopes and fears we all share, wherever we are in the world.
		Mda presently commutes between the USA (where he is Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Theory at Ohio University) and South Africa, where he runs a number of community projects and playwriting workshops.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/mda.htm (1564 words)

	American Theatre: Zakes Mda: redressing the past. (South African playwright) (Interview)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		South African playwright Zakes Mda is on a 12 month visiting fellowship at Yale University during 1993, working on the South African Research Project.
		Mda won the American Theater Association's Christiana Crawford Award in 1984 for "The Road." His latest play is called "The Dying Screams of the Moon" which is about the South African government's removal of ancestral land from the fl natives in 1912.
		Mda was born in Cape Province and fled to Lesotho where he witnessed humanitarian abuse, such as...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:14875271&refid=holomed_1 (204 words)

	Powell's Books - The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Niki, the fallen madonna, transgresses boundaries for the sake of love; her choices have repercussions in the lives of her fl 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.
		A severe though often amusing social critic, Mda at turns belittles and exalts the women who bear dozens of 'coloured' children by their employers while reserving his harshest characterizations for the Boer men who relentlessly pester African women.
		As Niki is forced to submit to a white man's sexual demands, Mda writes, '[H]e just lay there like a plastic bag full of decaying tripe on top of her.' Readers follow the lives of Niki, Popi and Popi's politically active brother, Viliki, for more than 30 years, into the post-apartheid era.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio/0374200084 (696 words)

	Sins of the mother weigh heavily on her offspring
		Mda makes the novel's central character, Niki, one of the "Excelsior Nineteen." Niki submits to the overtures of her employer, Stephanus Cronje, in revenge for being humiliated by his wife.
		Mda ends his novel with this sentence: "From the sins of our mothers all things flow." Niki, the Madonna of Excelsior, does not experience an immaculate conception; and yet she remains a source of life.
		Mda has Niki and Popi model for Claerhout, and he begins most of his chapters with a description of one of Claerhout's paintings.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/14/RVGVQ5DLNT1.DTL (587 words)

	Ways of Dying - Zakes Mda
		Toloki's mourning for strangers -- praised as adding: "an aura of sorrow and dignity that we last saw in the olden days when people knew how to mourn their dead" -- is, of course, also a mourning for all that he has lost and never had, and for a whole society in trouble.
		Mda's light touch keeps the death-horrors from overwhelming the book -- though occasionally death is also kept almost too much at a distance.
		South African author Zakes Mda (actually: Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda) was born in 1948.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/safrica/mdaz2.htm (1170 words)

	prize
		AKES Mda, internationally acclaimed South African playwright, novelist, painter and academic, has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa with his latest book, The Heart of Redness.
		It is taken from the red ochre used by Xhosa women as a dye and adornment....But Mda is far too sophisticated to make simple distinctions of 'tradition good; progress bad".
		OCHRE ROOTS: Award-winning Zakes Mda's new novel, The Heart of Redness, is set in the Eastern Cape in the mid-nineteenth century.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/03/17/features/PRIZE.HTM (339 words)

	ZA@PLAY - BOOKS 07/07/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mda's Love Letters addresses the value of pre-colonial culture, and explores the relative degrees of power young men and young women have in negotiating a love match.
		As well as providing the first of the three plays in the collection, Mda is also the book's editor.
		Moving beyond Mda's introduction, a vital question is: where are the main energies of South African theatre to lie in the near future?
	server.mg.co.za /mg/books/9807/980707-mda.html (740 words)

	Amazon.com: The Heart of Redness: A Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The war between the amaXhosa and the British in South Africa (known to Westerners as the Zulu Wars) was interrupted by a strange, messianic interlude in which the amaXhosa followed the self-destructive commands of the prophet Nongqawuse and were split between followers of Nongqawuse (Believers) and their opponents (Unbelievers).
		Mda's sympathies are with the Believers, but his eminent fairness forbids mere didacticism, and his joy in the back and forth of village politics beautifully communicates itself to the reader through poetic language enlivened by humor and irony.
		With the present conflict, Mda weaves in the infamous history of this place, where the savage white conquerors came with "civilization" and a Xhosa prophetess told the people to resist by destroying their cattle and crops.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374528349?v=glance (1442 words)

	Mda, Zakes - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mda returned from the USA in 1984, joining the University of Lesotho as lecturer in the Department of English in 1985.
		In 1991 Mda was writer-in-residence at the University of Durham, where he wrote The Nun's Romantic Story; in 1992 as research fellow at Yale University he wrote The Dying Screams of the Moon, another play, and his first novel, Ways of Dying (1995).
		Mda's plays are distinguished by the combination of a close scrutiny of social values with elements of magic realism that is even more pronounced in his novels, Ways of Dying and She Plays with the Darkness (1995), and in his novella Melville 67 (1998).
	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/3818.html (608 words)

	Mda, Zakes - South African writer and playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mda, Zakes - South African writer and playwright
		MDA, Zakes (Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni) (1948-), a prolific South African writer of plays, novels, poems, and articles for academic journals and newspapers.
		For corrections and updates, please fill in the Zakes Mda update form.
	people.africadatabase.org /en/person/3818.html (234 words)

	The Heart of Redness : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		In it, Zakes Mda introduces us to a clash of Cultures - not, as so often in South Africa, between fl and white, but between educated urban fl and rural poverty-stricken fl.
		That when the the time was right, the dead (cattle and people) would rise and they would defeat their enemies.
		The story Zakes Mda tells is interesting but, what gives it depth and complexity, is this interaction between past and present, between the modern and the traditional.I enjoyed it.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/ASIN/0312421745/The_Heart_of_Redness:_A_Novel.html (169 words)

	Alibris: Zakes Mda
		Zakes Mda, a prize-winning South African writer, takes as the basis for this novel an apartheid-era law, the Immorality Act, that made interracial sex illegal, and a 1971 trial.
		The story revolves around Niki, who defies the law, and those who are affected by her actions, over a 30-year period in which, while much changes, much also remains the...
		The Mother of All Eating, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding satire on materialism in which...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Zakes_Mda (499 words)

	The Heart of Redness: A Novel (Zakes Mda) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mda skillfullly evokes the tensions in contemporary South Africa for fls caught between the tug of Western, technological culture and their identity in long-standing traditions.
		The story is given added substance by Mda's recounting the history of similar tensions from the nineteenth century, thus creating deep emotions that propel the characters.
		The story mixes family feuds, spats between the sexes, and sober deliberations about community versus individual choices, all told with a level of humor that underscores rather than undermines the importance of these issues for South Africa today.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0312421745.htm (435 words)

	Redness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Zakes Mda (Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda) is both a novelist and a playwright.
		Mda has a doctorate in Drama from the University of Cape Town and he has been a visiting professor at Yale University and the University of Vermont.
		Mda is, perhaps, the best known fl writer in the new South Africa.
	webs.wofford.edu /mandlovenb/SAfrica/content/redness.html (1605 words)

	Amazon.com: The Madonna of Excelsior : A Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This is an elemental South African story of relationships across the color line, first at the height of apartheid's madness and then during the freedom struggle and the ongoing transition to democracy.
		Mda writes from the inside with a rare combination of passion and truth that will connect with readers everywhere.
		It is one of the strengths of the book that Mda?s politics?if he has any?are entirely absent from the narrative.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374200084?v=glance (3140 words)

	Indigocafe.com :: The Books :: The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda
		Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal, revealing a country in which apartheid, even as it sought to keep the races apart, concealed interracial liaisons of every kind.
		Niki, the fallen Madonna, transgresses boundaries for the sake of love; her choices have profound repercussions in the lives of her fl son, Viliki, and her mixed-race daughter, Popi, who come of age in the years after the end of apartheid, when freedom allows them—indeed compels them—to figure out their racial identities for themselves.
		Many novels have sought to dramatize the consequences of apartheid; The Madonna of Excelsior is the rare work in which the political issues are only one aspect of a vital and complex human drama.
	www.indigocafe.com /bookstore/book.php?TC=2255 (284 words)

	Mda, Zakes (1948- ) - MavicaNET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Taweni Gondwe put her former lecturer, Zakes Mda, to the test and he passed with flying colours.
		After penning some thirty plays in as many years, Zakes Mda started to write enormously popular novels about the politics of race, sex, and place after the collapse of apartheid.
		The Xhosa nation might well have been wiped out, but for the fact that some of the people ("Unbelievers") rejected these prophecies and did not destroy their crops and cattle.
	www.mavicanet.com /directory/pol/39488.html (351 words)

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		Ways of Dying was awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central News Agency (CNA) Award and the Noma Award, an Africa-wide prize founded by Shoichi Noma, onetime president of Kodansha International.
		Mda's purpose comes through clearly: to show how many ways of dying there are in the transition to a new South Africa, whether through the brutality of white overseers and policemen or that of fl gangsters.
		Zakes Mda has gathered up all the human waste and political detritus of South African life and distilled it into a magic realist text of great beauty, humor, pathos."—The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
	www.qinformation.com /FSG/book/BookDisplay.asp?BookKey=551037 (659 words)

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