Kwaito Aesthetics and Spaces of Liberation in Post-Apartheid South African Literature
The article investigates the use of popular culture as a literary device in three post-apartheid South African novels: Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut (2007), Niq Mhlongo’s After Tears (2007), and Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207 (2006). It argues that, in these nove…