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Indigeneity in modernity. The cases of Kgebetli Moele and Niq Mhlongo
Lesibana Rafapa Lesibana Rafapa is Full Professor in the Department of English Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria.
Email: rafaplj@unisa.ac.za Indigeneity in modernity: The cases of Kgebetli Moele and Niq Mhlongo Indigeneity in modernity: The cases of Kgebetli Moele and Niq Mhlongo The study of South African English literature written by black people in the post-apartheid period has focused, among others, on the so-called Hillbrow novels of Phaswane Mpe and Niq Mhlongo, and narratives such as Kgebetli Moele’s Book of the Dead (2009) set in Pretoria.
A number of studies show how the fiction of these writers handles black concerns that some critics believe to have replaced a thematic preoccupation with apartheid, as soon as political freedom was attained in 1994. However, adequate analyses are yet to be made of works produced by some of these black writers in their more rounded scrutiny of the first decad