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An art of hunger: Gender and the politics of food distribution in Zakes Mda’s South Africa

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This article examines the centrality of hunger and food in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying, The Heart of Redness, and The Whale Caller. While Mda’s work has been the subject of incisive readings of the politics of development in contemporary South Africa, attention to his treatment of hunger, specifically, helps to clarify the centrality of gender to Mda’s critical re-envisioning of development policies pursued by late and postapartheid governments.

Source: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

DOI: 10.1177/0021989416658783

Author: Katherine Hallemeier

Institution: Oklahoma State University

Language: English

Topic: Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Zero hunger, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: Oklahoma State University, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries