Post-Apartheid Fiction: A Reading of Yewande Omotoso’s The Woman Next Door
Waleed Samir Ali
Abstract:Omotoso's novel, The Woman Next Door (2014), can be best approached within the post-apartheid discourse of colorblindness, non-racialism, reconciliation, and cultural diversity. The paper aims to show how Omotoso's novel depicts an important epoch in the history of contemporary South Africa, i.e., the post transitional phase, by adopting the basic principles of the "Rainbow Nation" government. An analysis of Omotoso's novel reveals that though it does not openly deal with racism in the way apartheid fiction do… Show more
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