Tag: Cape Fever
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Cape Fever review: a masterful power struggle of mistress and maid
Overview In Cape Fever, Nadia Davids delivers a compact, charged novel set in a “small unnamed city in a colonial empire” just after the First World War. The story builds around a fraught relationship between a mistress and her maid, using their intimate dynamic to illuminate the broader social hierarchies and racial tensions that defined…
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Cape Fever by Nadia Davids: A Power Struggle Between Mistress and Maid
Overview Nadia Davids’s Cape Fever revisits the social maelstrom of a South African city just after World War I, a nation beginning to reckon with its colonial legacies. The novel, her second, follows the award-winning author as she sharpens her lens on power, gender, and class. Set in a small unnamed coastal city that evokes…
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Cape Fever review: power clash in postwar Cape
Overview Nadia Davids’s Cape Fever continues her exploration of power, class, and gender in a historical setting that feels intimate and urgent. Set in a small unnamed city in a colonial empire just after the First World War, the novel unfolds with the precision of a chamber piece and the scope of a social panorama.…