African-language literatures :
Mhlambi, Innocentia Jabulisile,
African-language literatures : new perspectives on IsiZulu fiction and popular Black television series / Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi. - 1 online resource (242 pages)
Includes bibliography (pages [203]-220) and index.
Introduction: African-language literatures and popular arts: challenges and new approaches -- Proverbs in narratives: seeing the contemporary through archaic gazes in Aphelile Agambaqa and Impi YaboMdabu Isethunjini -- Nested narratives: 'Some are seated well, while others are not seated at all' -- Acts of naming: the detective plot in Masondo's fiction -- 'A world in creolization': inheritance politics and the ambiguities of a 'very modern tradition' in two Black South African TV dramas -- Thematic re-engagements in the television drama series Gaz' Lam and isiZulu literature -- 'It is not crime in the way you see it': Kuyoqhuma Nhlamvana's rewriting of Yizo Yizo's crime discourse and outlaw culture -- Conclusion.
9781868145652 (pbk.) 1868145654 (pbk.) 9781868147069 (e-book)
African fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Language and culture.
Zulu literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR9362.2 / .M45 2012eb
African-language literatures : new perspectives on IsiZulu fiction and popular Black television series / Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi. - 1 online resource (242 pages)
Includes bibliography (pages [203]-220) and index.
Introduction: African-language literatures and popular arts: challenges and new approaches -- Proverbs in narratives: seeing the contemporary through archaic gazes in Aphelile Agambaqa and Impi YaboMdabu Isethunjini -- Nested narratives: 'Some are seated well, while others are not seated at all' -- Acts of naming: the detective plot in Masondo's fiction -- 'A world in creolization': inheritance politics and the ambiguities of a 'very modern tradition' in two Black South African TV dramas -- Thematic re-engagements in the television drama series Gaz' Lam and isiZulu literature -- 'It is not crime in the way you see it': Kuyoqhuma Nhlamvana's rewriting of Yizo Yizo's crime discourse and outlaw culture -- Conclusion.
9781868145652 (pbk.) 1868145654 (pbk.) 9781868147069 (e-book)
African fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Language and culture.
Zulu literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR9362.2 / .M45 2012eb