Ways of Dying labari ne na 1995 na marubucin marubucin Afirka ta Kudu kuma marubucin wasan kwaikwayo Zakes Mda . Rubutun ya biyo bayan yawo da yunƙurin kirkire-kirkire na Toloki, ƙwararren mai zaman makoki, mai zaman kansa, yayin da yake ratsa wani birni na Afirka ta Kudu da ba a bayyana sunansa ba a lokacin riƙon ƙwaryar ƙasar.[1]

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Hanyoyi na Mutuwa suna nazarin ra'ayoyin gina ƙasa bayan raunin jama'a na Apartheid . Gwaji ne na lokacin interregnum a tarihin Afirka ta Kudu. Mda yayi gwaje-gwaje tare da gaskiyar sihiri,[2] ta yin amfani da shi don haskaka hulɗar bala'i da dariya a cikin fuskantar rikici, [3] da rikice-rikice tsakanin azuzuwan zamantakewa da ikon gwamnati.[4]

Littafin ya faru ne a wani birni na Afirka ta Kudu wanda ba a bayyana sunansa ba, shekaru biyar bayan zaben farko da aka yi bayan mulkin wariyar launin fata. Toloki, kwararre mai balaguron balaguron balaguron balaguro, ya yi la'akari da nau'ikan tashe-tashen hankula da ke addabar ƙauyukan da yake aiki a ciki. Ya garzaya zuwa Noria, wadda ya sani tun yana ƙarami daga ƙauyensa, yayin da yake baƙin ciki a wurin jana'izar ɗanta Vutha, jana'izar na biyu da ta yi wa yaro. Su biyun sun shiga tare kuma suka fara dangantaka, kowanne yana da'awar ɗayan ya san kuma yana iya koyar da yadda ake rayuwa.[5]

Grant Farred, yana rubuce-rubuce a cikin Nazarin Almara na Zamani, ya soki Mda don yanke hukuncin da ya yi na tarihi, dabarun tashin hankali da aka yi amfani da su don tsayayya da wariyar launin fata. Farred ya kwatanta wannan rashin tausayi tare da 'yan wasan kwaikwayo na tarihi a matsayin irin ra'ayi na Post-Apartheid. A madadin, Rita Barnard ta yaba wa littafin saboda abin da ta yi imani da cewa sautin "kyakkyawa" ne, inda ta bayyana cewa bai "ba da tabbacin amincewa da ka'idojin da'a ba".[6] Bugu da ƙari, ta yaba da sauƙi na novel, da kuma shirye-shiryensa na maye gurbin "tsage-tsalle na gaiety da dariya".[7]

  1. Zaleski, Jeff (8 December 2002). "Fiction Notes". Publishers Weekly. 249 (32): 277.
  2. Goyal, Yogita (Summer 2011). "The Pull of the Ancestors: Slavery, Apartheid, and Memory in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying and Cion". Research in African Literatures. 42 (2): 147–169. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.42.2.147.
  3. Barnard, Rita (Summer 2004). "On Laughter, the Grotesque, and the South African Transition: Zades Mda's Ways of Dying". Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 37 (3): 277–302. doi:10.1215/ddnov.037030277.
  4. Lopez, Maria J. (May 2013). "Communities of Mourning and Vulnerability: Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow". English in Africa. 40 (1): 99–117. doi:10.4314/eia.v40i1.5.
  5. "Ways of Dying (Book)". Kirkus Reviews. 70 (13): 909. 1 July 2002.
  6. Farred, Grant (Spring 2000). "Mourning the Postapartheid State Already? The Poetics of Loss in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying". Modern Fiction Studies. 46 (1).
  7. Barnard, Rita (Summer 2004). "On Laughter, the Grotesque, and the South African Transition: Zades Mda's Ways of Dying". Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 37 (3): 277–302. doi:10.1215/ddnov.037030277.