Eschewing Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s notion of a “rainbow nation,” which suggests coherence and unity, Jacob finds a reality of racial, caste and class divisions instead that undergirds Edward
Said’s argument that “hybrid, heterogeneous, extraordinarily differentiated and monolithic” describes South Africa today. He further argues that all South African identities have arisen, either
direction or indirectly, from the experience of diasporic migration--a dominant theme in contemporary South African fiction--and that the diasporic subject is in constant engagement with, and
implicating, the self with the other--socially, culturally and linguistically--in a trajectory that begins with displacement. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc.,
Portland, OR (protoview.com)
