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longo’s works is undercut if his works rewrite the relations between black and white. To begin with, this writing strategy was proposed by Ndebele in 1980s in Rediscovery of the Ordinary, advocating “radical displacement of the white oppressor as an active, dominant player in the imagination of the oppressed”. (Ndebele, 2015:88) This advocacy means that literary works should focus on black people instead of paying attention to the oppressors or the oppression being inflicted on African people by the white oppressors. 

Take Ndebele’s literary praxis for example to specifically elaborate the meaning of this writing strategy. Ndebele strictly follows this strategy in his collection of short stories Fools and Other Stories. Instead of portraying the white oppressors and the confrontations between black and white, his stories are concerned with the ordinary life in a small township with much focus on the inner growth of small boys in the first four stories and on the subtle relationship between a black student and a black teacher in the last story. In this way, Ndebele displaces the white oppressors in literary imagination to pay attention to black people themselves.

Conclusion

This thesis mainly focuses on Niq Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog as well as Way Back Home with the insight of Njabulo S. Ndebele’s Ordinary Theory. This thesis holds that these two novels are mainly concerned with the textures of black people’s daily life and their complicated inner world. What’s more, these two novels deal with the subtle confrontations between black and white in their daily life in post-apartheid South Africa. The purposes of the thesis are to figure out what kind of daily life has been presented, what kind of black people have been characterized and what the relations between black and white are after the peaceful political transition from apartheid to democratic South Africa in Mhlongo’s writings. 

In the first chapter, a brief introduction of Niq Mhlongo, his two novels, Dog Eat Dog as well as Way Back Home, and relevant literature review at home and abroad has been given. Based on the research background, this thesis has pointed out its research purposes and three research questions. In the second chapter, the definition and two key concepts of Ndebele’s Ordinary Theory have been introduced. This chapter has also explored Ordinary Theory’s influence on South African fiction. Chapter Three and Four have discussed at full length how Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog and Way Back Home respond to Ndebele’s Ordinary Theory in terms of subject matters and characterization. Chapter Three has analyzed Mhlongo’s literary representation of black people’ daily life from three aspects to argue that Mhlongo’s writing focus has turned away from the dramatically politics-committed representation of reality held dear by the Protest Literature to the black people’s ordinary life.

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