Sol Plaatje’s Pan-Africanism and a dream of a sub-continent at peace with itself constructed on the principles of ethnic and racial equality comes to a critical paradox with the realisation that it is not possible to achieve it in the face of the political interests of different competing national groups. What ultimately stands out in this novel is the feminine metaphor of African nationalism, which is embedded in Mhudi, the nationalist and cultural icon. This paper traces the narrative voices in the novel Mhudi, in the context of its multi-layered narrations of national histories by different ethnic groups claiming South Africa as their home, and the literary interpretations that arise. Using postclassical narrative theory and historical narratology, this paper considers the possibility of several renderings of Mhudi’s character, South Africa’s history and the contradictory claims to ownership of this land which Plaatje, the nationalist, fictionally presents. In the South Africa of the 1930s, Plaatje’s aspirations of a multicultural, multi-ethnic, and united country which are embodied in Mhudi were deferred. The paper concludes that those aspirations remain deferred even after the end of both colonialism and apartheid.
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Graphic design is a type of fine art design (also known as applied art) that has only really developed strongly in Vietnam in the last one or two decades. Due to its communication nature, Graphic design plays an increasingly important role and influences many aspects of social life. However, at present, in the trend of strong economic and cultural integration and exchange taking place in the world, Vietnamese graphic design art has made significant progress, but there is still a lot of progress. Design products show plagiarism, copying, style mixing, ignorance, alienation from culture and national aesthetic language. Faced with the above facts, by a combination of survey research methods, expert interviews, combined with comparison with advanced graphics platforms in the world, the thesis evaluates the points of interest advantages, difficulties and causes of the aforementioned inadequacies of the field of modern graphic design in Vietnam. At the same time, from the perspective of the trainer, through the analysis, explanation, and discussion, some comments are made on the development direction of Vietnam's graphic design field in the coming period.
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