Reading, Zakes Mdas Ways of Dying and She Plays With the Darkness attempts to examine South African society during apartheid regime and the post - apartheid South Africa period using the literary works of Zakes Mda to strike a balance between the apartheid era and post -apartheid era in south Africa. The breakdown of the old order and its accompanying images of violent death and birth leads to the reality principle being eroded, producing dream-like images. The paper entitled Reconciliation: A Question Mark. Ways of Dying was awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central News Agency (CNA) Award and the Noma Award, an Africa-wide prize founded by Shoichi Noma, onetime president of Kodansha International. Ways of Dying represents the transition from life to death in the context of South Africa’s transition from apartheid-era to the post-apartheid democracy. In Ways of Dying (1995) Mda describes the mass gatherings on the streets which evokes images of the carnival. Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today. PDF This article explores Zakes Mdas novel, Ways of Dying (1995), as an example of transitional literature. Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city's crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a 'professional mourner' in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa.

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