Answer to Question #242688 in English for Gomiey

Question

Compare the ghost strain n by mashigo and the absolutely true diary of a part time indian

Answer 1

In her collection of short works, the South African writer Mohale Mashigo uses a speculative

lens to examine the future of Africa in a time of upheaval crisis. Although her stories depict the

postcolonial other as a potential future victim in a perspective suggested by Agamben’s state of

exception, they also demonstrate a balancing of the global with the local and a sense of agency

that are specific to the author and to the situation of post-transitional South Africa. The Story

focuses on the idea of a South African apocalyptic future taken over by ghosts whose drug-abuse

possess them to eat human body parts or organs, depending on the ghosts' drug of choice.