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thaumaturgy

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Stewart talks about a "neighbour of ours, an old man, who has for many years been a dabbler in occult philosophy and thaumaturgy [who] will have you believe that at this season in each and every dust whirlwind on land and spindrift column at sea there is present an invisible spirit of evil [.
His portrayal of a traveling troupe of gypsies seats the reader for a fascinating show -- and he imputes thaumaturgy to spirits good and evil.
Such a carnivalesque scope is enabled by the various sites of hybridity and mimicry from which Mda enunciates antithetical positions on culture, religion, thaumaturgy and colonialism, not to mention South Africa's neocolonialism and its accompanying rhetoric, which Grant Farred (2000: 186) refers to as "postapartheid discourse".
 
 
 
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