The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo

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  Review: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo.
By Mark Schone The New York Times

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2006
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, By Peter Orner. 309 pp. Little, 
Brown & Company. $23.95.

As Thomas Pynchon made clear in his first novel, "V.," any writer who 
wants to criticize colonialism should look into some Namibian real 
estate. Nearly empty of people, nearly empty of recorded history except 
for the German slaughter of the Herero tribe in 1904, which Pynchon 
depicts as a dress rehearsal for the Holocaust, the arid African nation 
is an ideal, uncluttered backdrop for allegories about oppression.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/21/arts/idbriefs22a.php

		
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