Abstract
Through the juxtaposition of the real and the unreal, Zakes Mda’s novels attest to an investment in indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) which are imbricated in local epistemologies, iconographies and cosmologies. A significant part of Mda’s fictional landscape features non-human characters interacting with humans in a manner that defies logic, but is consonant with the writer’s worldview on the human/animal connection. This article traces the various interfaces of the human/animal symbiosis which could be located within the ambit of local cultural knowledge formation or, stated differently, within the economy of IKS in the southern African context.
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