![]() ![]() Toloki becomes symbolic of the need to establish new paradigms because the traditional ones have become inadequate. ![]() His ability continuously to reinvent himself is related to his ability to incorporate himself into the narrative of the city. The emphasis here is on the marginalised but creative stance of Toloki, which is well dealt with, showing him to be in a different space, beyond the usual paradigms, in his mind, his way of dress, and his behaviour. Oxford: OUP), Zakes Mda foregrounds Toloki's attempts to define his space in the imagined city against this backdrop of constant change in the relations between people and, more pertinently for the purposes of this paper, the relationship between people and the city. The volatility was evident in various other strata of social and intellectual life. The period of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the final stages of the anti-apartheid struggle and the transition to a democratic South Africa, was a time of great flux and fluidity, and not just in the political sense. ![]()
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