Justify the Enemy
Becoming Human in South Africa
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-86914-380-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a collection of non-fiction by the prolific author Zakes Mda. It showcases his role as a public intellectual with the inclusion of public lectures, essays and media articles. Mda focuses on South Africa's history and the present, identity and belonging, the art of writing, human rights, global warming and why he is unable to keep silent on abuses of power.
Some of his best-known novels include Ways of Dying (1995, MNet Book Prize), The Heart of Redness (2000, Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Africa, and Sunday Times Fiction Prize), The Madonna of Excelsior (2002, one of the Top Ten South African books published in the Decade of Democracy), The Whale Caller (2005), Cion (2007), Black Diamond (2009), The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013), Rachel's Blue (2014), and Little Suns (2015, Sunday Times Literary Award).
Some of his best-known novels include Ways of Dying (1995, MNet Book Prize), The Heart of Redness (2000, Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Africa, and Sunday Times Fiction Prize), The Madonna of Excelsior (2002, one of the Top Ten South African books published in the Decade of Democracy), The Whale Caller (2005), Cion (2007), Black Diamond (2009), The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013), Rachel's Blue (2014), and Little Suns (2015, Sunday Times Literary Award).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal
South Africa
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86914-380-0 (9781869143800)
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Persons
Zakes Mda was born in Herschel in the Eastern Cape in 1948 and studied in South Africa, Lesotho and the United States. He wrote his first short story at the age of fifteen and has since won major South African and British literary awards for his novels and plays. His writing has been translated into twenty languages. Mda is a professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University.
J.U. Jacobs is an emeritus professor and senior research associate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the co-editor of Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda (2009) and author of Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction (2016).
J.U. Jacobs is an emeritus professor and senior research associate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the co-editor of Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda (2009) and author of Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction (2016).