Answer to Question #223212 in English for Thando

Question

Do you consider Mashigo M ghost strain meaningful? How did you arrive to this decision? What's criteria did you use

Answer 1

Yes I consider Mashigo M ghost strain meaningful on the account that people are transformed into shambling, flesh eating monsters and that like many zombie apocalypse stories, the disaster causes the collapse of social institutions. The story, “Ghost Strain N”, for example, riffs on B-grade zombie movie tropes, sweeping the reader into the lives of unlikely best friends Koketso and Steven. When Steven doesn’t come around for some time, Koketso starts noticing the virus in people all around him and the zombie-like vacuity it leaves in its wake. Dense with the history of colonialism and apartheid, the failings of the new dispensation, the colourful lives of the seen, the unseen and the imagined, this collection of short stories weaves through fragments of memory; the dreadful, dreamlike un/reality where falling is mooring and mooring is plummeting.