SHIFTING BOUNDARIES AND ALTERITY IN POSTCOLONIAL FICTION: THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR BY ZAKES MDA

Resumo

The initial objective of this paper is to investigate the state of the art of postcolonial literature today, discussing some of its definitions and subsequent broadenings of meaning, so as to understand the contemporary postcolonial condition as the experience of living permanently in a shifting boundary. The subsequent analysis of The Madonna of Excelsior (2002), authored by South-African Zakes Mda, seeks to reveal how otherness is constructed and interrogated in this novel, written in the context of reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa, where one must slip between past and present.

Palavras-chave: Literatura pós-colonial. África do Sul. Zakes Mda.  Fronteira deslizante.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18305/1679-5520/scripta.uniandrade.v11n2p24-41