This article presents a close reading of Niq Mhlongo's Way Back Home, particularly its representation of the post-apartheid nation-state as a place of excess or, indeed, what James Ogude might call a "a site of eating". To begin, I locate Mhlongo's oeuvre within the long and rich tradition of black-centred artistic expression that is preoccupied with black masculin...

This article presents a close reading of Niq Mhlongo's Way Back Home, particularly its representation of the post-apartheid nation-state as a place of excess or, indeed, what James Ogude might call a "a site of eating". To begin, I locate Mhlongo's oeuvre within the long and rich tradition of black-centred artistic expression that is preoccupied with black masculin...