Depictions of Black Defiance and Sovereign African Personhood in SEK Mqhayi's U-Don Jadu.
SEK Mqhayi's novel u-Don Jadu has most commonly been characterised as a novel depicting an idealistic aspiration for social equality between Black and white in South Africa. In the novel, the protagonist Dondolo kaJadu, narrates a series of antagonistic incidents and encounters along his journey thr...
| Publicado en: | Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 62 - 77 |
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