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And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses?: Four Works
Zakes Mda
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Description for And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses?: Four Works
paperback. This collection of three plays and one cine poem captures the essence of Zakes Mda's method as a dramatist. Included is the story of two women who meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 125. Weight in Grams: 185.
Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and child share a last, loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity from a committed social worker; and a young girl finds her missing father and her role in the political struggle. This colleciton of three plays and one cine poem captures the essence of Zakes Mda's method as a dramatist. In most of the works, the chartacters have no names: they come onto the stage with no identity - except perhaps for ... Read more
Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and child share a last, loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity from a committed social worker; and a young girl finds her missing father and her role in the political struggle. This colleciton of three plays and one cine poem captures the essence of Zakes Mda's method as a dramatist. In most of the works, the chartacters have no names: they come onto the stage with no identity - except perhaps for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Wits University Press South Africa
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868142224
SKU
V9781868142224
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About Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda is a multiple award-winning playwright, novelist, painter, composer and filmmaker. Mda has published 19 books which have been translated into several languages and has won the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Sunday Times Literary Prize, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award and the American Library Association Notable Book. He is Professor ... Read more
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