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... improvisers of the new. Characters such as Toloki in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995), Ahl in Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones (2011), and Kotchikpa, the boy narrator in Uwem Akpan's “Fattening for Gabon” (2008), each navigate a terrain of insecurity to improbable ends. They challenge us to rethink our assumptions...

... by the contemporary luminaries Kiran Desai, Zakes Mda, Zadie Smith, and Junot Díaz. Throughout these chapters, Jay’s nuanced readings of the novels’ multicontinental plots, characters, themes, and images reveal a thoroughly inter- penetrated world, where cultures and traditions dizzyingly mix and characters...

... array of writers, from canonized authors J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer to such lesser-known figures as Athol Fugard, Miriam Tlali, and Zakes Mda, Barnard cogently demonstrates that the politics of space is paramount in under- standing literary representation in South Africa. Sites...

... of Kabir, the rasa aesthetics that connect the staging of the nineteenth-century Bengali actress Binodini Dasi's stage performances to a contemporary Bollywood blockbuster, the Zulu proverbs that allow the formal experimentations of such novelists as C. S. Nyembezi and Zakes Mda, and the Zulu praise...

... Coundouriotis finds in the works of Zakes Mda, Nuruddin Farah, and Uwem Akpan. As opposed to Balzac's insistence on probability, a refusal to restore or redeem that made sense in the context of French embourgeoisement, the exigencies of postcolonial South Africa, Somalia, and West Africa call forth...