![]() While one set of characters obdurately adheres to rigid and even absurd traditional customs for the sake of loyalty to their tragic history, the other is just as obdurately and absurdly confident that the future prosperity of their village will be secured by capitalist developers. ![]() It deals with the difficult choice a disempowered and divided community in an amaXhosa seaside village, the birthplace of a legendary prophetess, Nongqawuse, has to make in order to adapt to the complexity of a changing world. The Heart of Redness addresses post - colonial issues of ambivalence, empowerment, and epistemology. It is a historical, satirical and ecological novel and, like many South African novels published after the demise of apartheid and in the aftermath of the Truth and Reconcilation Commission (hereafter TRC) hearings, it delves into the colonial past of the country and examines it in the light of contemporary issues. ![]() The Heart of Redness is a richly textured novel intertwining two narrative strands over a period of almost one hundred and fifty years. It won two literary awards: The Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa), and the Sunday Times Fiction award. 1 The Heart of Redness, published in 2000, is Zakes Mda’s second novel after Ways of Dying (1995). ![]()
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