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Postmodern Themes and Tropes in Zoo City - Coggle Diagram

- - - - condition that means she is paired with an animal as a sign to the world of her chequered past
- - - - transgresses every kind of border imaginable
      - disregards the established borders between fact and fiction by weaving her characters and story into a realistic landscape, populated with real people, places and events.
      - crosses geographical borders by incorporating foreign characters like Benoit and reference to other countries
      - breaches cultural borders in her portrayal of Western society side-by-side with traditional African practices and social borders by highlighting relationships between respectable upper-class characters like Gio with Zoos from the slums like Zinzi
      - violates borders between language by mixing isizulu, isiXhosa, Shona and Afrikaans into her English text.
      - crossover project
- - - - sustains the principles of Postmodernism by rejecting the social grand narrative of the country