{"id":26447,"date":"2012-11-12T18:53:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T18:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26447"},"modified":"2012-11-12T18:53:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T18:53:22","slug":"the-madonna-of-excelsior-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26447","title":{"rendered":"The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.ohiou.edu\/directory\/faculty_page\/mda\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Picador (an imprint of Macmillan)<br \/>\nMarch 2005<br \/>\n288 pages<br \/>\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780312423827; ISBN10: 0312423829<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zakes Mda<\/strong>, Professor of Creative Writing<br \/>\n<em>Ohio University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/themadonnaofexcelsior\/ZakesMda\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacketupload.macmillanusa.com\/jackets\/high_res\/jpgs\/9780312423827.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1971, nineteen citizens of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Excelsior,_Free_State\" target=\"_blank\">Excelsior<\/a> in South Africa&#8217;s white-ruled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_State_(South_African_province)\" target=\"_blank\">Free State<\/a> were charged with breaking apartheid&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Immorality_Act\" target=\"_blank\">Immorality Act<\/a>, which forbade sex between blacks and whites. Taking this case as raw material for his alchemic imagination, Zakes Mda tells the story of one irrepressible fallen madonna, Niki, and her family, at the heart of the scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) March 2005 288 pages 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312423827; ISBN10: 0312423829 Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing Ohio University In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa&#8217;s white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid&#8217;s Immorality Act, which forbade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,11,8,15,520],"tags":[514,3448],"class_list":["post-26447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-south-africa","tag-macmillan","tag-zakes-mda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}