Mhudi

Mhudi
First edition title page
AuthorSol Plaatje
LanguageEnglish
Published1930 (Lovedale Press)
Publication placeSouth Africa
Media typePrint

Mhudi: An Epic of South African Native Life a Hundred Years Ago is a South African novel by Sol Plaatje, first published in 1930. The novel has been republished many times, including in the influential Heinemann African Writers Series.

The novel is a political historical novel which explores the development of the Traansval kingdom, led by Matabeleland. The novel was originally finished in 1920, but Plaatje was unable to get the novel published. The novel re-envisions the standard Eurocentric narrative of history, which supported Apartheid and its racist infrastructure.

Plaatje described the novel as a romance, comparing it to the Zulu novels of H. Rider Haggard.

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 Chennells, Anthony (1 May 1997). "Plotting South African History: Narrative in Sol Plaatje's "Mhudi"". English in Africa. 24 (1): 37–58. ISSN 0376-8902. JSTOR 40238835.
  2. 1 2 Sanders, Mark (25 December 2002). "Sol T Plaatje:The Essential Interpreter". Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid. Duke University Press. pp. 40–60. ISBN 978-0822329985. R. R. R. Dhlomo's novella An African Tragedy (1928) consequently preceded it in publication.

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