TY - BOOK AU - Mhlambi,Innocentia Jabulisile ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - African-language literatures: new perspectives on IsiZulu fiction and popular Black television series SN - 9781868145652 (pbk.) AV - PR9362.2 .M45 2012eb PY - 2012/// CY - Johannesburg, South Africa PB - Wits University Press KW - African fiction (English) KW - History and criticism KW - Language and culture KW - Zulu literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alfaisal/Doc?id=11074333 ER -