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compiled by the National English Literary Museum, introduction by Crystal Warren1
NELM, Grahamstown, South Africa
Introduction
2009 saw an opening up of the literary scene, with many new authors getting into print. More plays than usual were published, and fiction continued to flourish. There has been a continuation of the growth of crime fiction and an expanding area of more popular or accessible fiction, from chick lit to humour to mainstream fiction. South African works have been nominated for literary awards in many countries, and the wide range of criticism shows an ongoing international interest. Within South Africa, there has been an increase in interest in local literature, where several high profile awards and the activities of websites such as Litnet and BookSA have contributed to greater media exposure and availability in bookshops. While some books by well-known authors such as J.M. Coetzee showed up on most shortlists, it was pleasing to see a wide range of authors being nominated for awards. Unfortunately, most of the literary awards had not been announced at the time of writing. However, an overview of the shortlists available does give an indication of the books which are generating debate. The Commonwealth Writers Prize: Africa was once again dominated by South Africa and Nigeria. The Double Crown by Mari Heese won the prize; Trespass by Dawn Garisch, Tsamma Season by Rosemund Handler, Refuge by Andrew Brown and Kings of the Water by Mark Behr were also included in the shortlist. South African nominees for the Best First Book were Gill Schierhout for The Shape of Him, Isla Morley for Come Sunday, Alistair Morgan for Sleepers Wake and Erica Emdon for Jelly Dog Days. Interestingly, J.M. Coetzee was shortlisted for Summertime,
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but for the South East Asia/Pacific region. Summertime also made the shortlist for the Booker Prize. The University of Johannesburg Prize for Literature was won by Imraan Coovadia for High Low In-Between, with Mark Behrs Kings of the Water and Sally-Ann Murrays Small Moving Parts shortlisted. Small Moving Parts was nominated for the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Literature, along with Imprendehora by Yvette Christians and The Elephant in the Room by Maya Fowler. Nominees for the Recht Malan Prize for Non-Fiction included the anthology Load Shedding and A Fork in the Road, the autobiography of Andr Brink. Brink also made the shortlist for the Alan Paton Award, the Sunday Times prize for non-fiction. The only other nominee included in this bibliography is Begging to Be Black by Antjie Krog. The Sunday Times Fiction Prize nominees were Summertime by J.M. Coetzee, High Low InBetween by Imraan Coovadia, The Book of the Dead by Kgebetli Moele, Small Moving Parts by Sally-Ann Murray and Saracen at the Gates by Zinaid Meeran. Saracen at the Gates won the European Union Award for an unpublished manuscript and was nominated for the University of Johannesburg Prize for Best First Book. The M-Net Literary Award for English shortlisted Small Moving Parts, Summertime, High Low In-Between, To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright and Little Ice Cream Boy by Jacques Pauw. Little Ice Cream Boy was also nominated for the M-Net Film Award, for a book which would translate well into film. Other nominees were Refuge by Andrew Brown, The October Killings by Wessel Ebersohn, My Brothers Keeper by Jassy Mackenzie and Black Diamond by Zakes Mda. The English Academy Prize for Translation was awarded to Luke Stubbs for his translation of Eben Venters Trencherman, published in 2008. For a country which has eleven official languages, there were surprisingly few translations this year, and they were all from Afrikaans. Mahala by Chris Barnard is a classic work of Afrikaans fiction which won the Hertzog Prize when it was first published in 1972. Anoeschka von Mecks My Name Is Vaselinetjie blurs the boundaries between teenage and adult fiction, with the Afrikaans version winning awards in both categories when it was published in 2004. Deon Meyers award-winning thriller Blood Safari is now available in English, while Shorn, a teenage novel by Leon de Villiers, was published simultaneously in Afrikaans and English. While there were not many translations, the multilingual nature of South Africa can be seen in the poetry section. Lucille Greeffs debut collection Glaskastele / Skylight of the Heart contains poems in English and Afrikaans and interweaves personal and public themes. Breyten Breytenbachs Oorblyfsel / Voice Over contains poems with parallel text in each language. Not a translation, but worked on simultaneously, the
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poems are a homage and poetic dialogue with Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian poet who died in 2008, and touch on aspects of his work. A French-English version was also published and won the Max Jacobs Prize for best foreign poetry volume. Exile by Ahmed Essop is made up of an extended commentary on the Rubiyt of Omar Khayym and short poems which explore politics, war, abuse, love and spirituality. Several of the poems are preceded by quotes from the Quran. Shabbir Banoobhai is another poet exploring spirituality in his three self-published texts which include poems, prayers, essays and meditations. Vuyelwa Carlins The Solitary includes a sonnet sequence inspired by the lives of Christian religious solitaries as well as portraits of people and reflections on wartime Poland and the holocaust. Yvette Christians continues to explore slavery, exile and displacement in her third book, Imprendehora, a collection of highly crafted, complex poems. Burnt Offering by Joan Metelerkamp is a haunting, complex and thoughtprovoking collection. The title is taken from a cycle of poems drawing on the imagery of alchemy. Other sections reflect on journeys and travel, and on poetry and the writing process. This is one of five beautifully produced and critically acclaimed collections to appear from the small independent publisher Modjaji Books. Oleander by Fiona Zerbst contains lyric poetry covering a wide range of topics and tones, as does Helen Moffetts debut collection Strange Fruit, although at the centre is a series of courageous poems on infertility. Malika Ndlovu explores the experience of stillbirth in Invisible Earthquake, a series of moving poems charting the process of grieving for a lost child. Sindiwe Magona has written fiction and memoir and now makes a strong debut into poetry with Please, Take Photographs, which contains powerful and angry poems that address social issues. Hyphen by Tania van Schalkwyk is another impressive debut collection which contains poems of place and of inner space. Also worth noting are first books by Peter Esterhuysen and Paul Mason, Shaista Justin, Katherine Kilalea, Carol Leff, Sonwabo Meyi and Pravasin Pillay and interesting new collections from established poets Gus Ferguson, Daniel Kunene and Amitabh Mitra. Noteworthy anthologies include Bending the Bow, Botsotso, Journeys 2009 and Spaces. This was a good year for drama. African Women Playwrights contains nine plays, including two by South Africans. Malika Ndlovus A Coloured Place explores coloured identity, while Sindiwe Magonas Vukani looks at AIDS. At This Stage: Plays from Post-Apartheid South Africa contains four contemporary plays which offer insight into national identity and explore issues of memory, truth and ways of dealing with the past. The plays are Reach! by Lara Foot Newton, Some Mothers Sons by Mike van Graan, Shwele Bawo! by Motshabi Tyelele and Dream of the Dog by Craig Higginson.
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Johnny Boskak Is Feeling Funny and Other Plays brings together seven plays by Greig Coetzee, most not previously in print, including White Men with Weapons, Breasts and Happy Natives. Gha-Makhulu Diniso is a social activist who uses his plays to depict township life and protest injustice and oppression. Six of his plays, produced over two decades, are now in print in two slim volumes. The film Zulu Love Letter won several awards when it was released in 2005. The screenplay by Bhekizizwe Peterson and Ramadan Suleman is now available, accompanied by a DVD of the film. Set against the backdrop of the first democratic elections and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it is a story of mothers and daughters, of love and guilt, memory and truth. Malika Ndlovus Sister Breyani explores themes of family, friendship and food in a bitter-sweet look at five sisters who reunite over a weekend. Fatima Dike also explores family relations and reunions in The Return, where an exile returns to his family after many years abroad. Dike dramatises the tension between modernity and tradition, and between exiles and those who stayed in South Africa. In MacBeki Pieter-Dirk Uys uses Macbeth as a basis for his satirical play of one leader making way for another. Featuring familiar political settings and identifiable characters, such as MacBeki, Lady Manta and MacZum, the play uses humour to depict political intrigue, entitlement and corruption. Victory is a one-act play by Athol Fugard exploring crime, violence and the despair generated by a life of poverty, hardship and lack of hope for the future. While crime, violence and poverty are explored in this years fiction, the dominant themes seem to be mourning and loss, memory, identity and family. There are several novels told through the voice of a child and (perhaps a sad comment on South African society) many depictions of dysfunctional and abusive families. Yet there seems to be less bleakness and a greater sense of hope and the possibility of reconciliation or redemption. This was a particularly productive year for fiction, with too many good books to do justice to them all in this brief overview. It is encouraging to note some of the very impressive debut novels which augur well for the future. Authors worth watching include Jason Donald, Erica Emdon, Maya Fowler, Hazel Frankl, Zinaid Meeran, Alistair Morgan, Isla Morley, Sally-Ann Murray, Pamela Oberem, Jacques Pauw, Gill Schierhout and Fiona Snyckers. J.M. Coetzee is the South African author most discussed in criticism (with eight book length studies listed in the bibliography), and Summertime is sure to add to the body of work. Reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, with some praising the book for its ironic humour and metafictional playfulness, not words often associated with Coetzee. In the novel, a biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee, and embarks on interviews with those who knew him. While some have read
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this as a fictionalised autobiography, there are enough factual differences to warn against reading it as memoir. Coetzee plays with themes of identity, the links between fact and fiction and the connections between author and writing. Justin Cartwright explores themes of loss, identity, mortality and family in To Heaven by Water, where a retired journalist tries to find meaning and purpose after the death of his wife. In Kings of the Water by Mark Behr, a gay Afrikaans man returns to the family farm for his mothers funeral after a fifteen-years absence. Behr gives a poignant exploration of grief and loss, reconciliation and identity. Hazel Frankls Counting Sleeping Beauties was a runner-up in the European Union Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. A novel of love, loss, grief and guilt, it explores the death of a child and how that impacts on a family. Isla Morley explores similar terrain with her debut Come Sunday. After the death of her child, a woman returns to South Africa where she must confront the ghosts of her own childhood. Reviewers have compared Morley to Anita Shreve and Barbara Kingsolver. Sleepers Wake by Alistair Morgan is a moving and powerful novel exploring the impact of grief and guilt. A man traumatised by the death of his wife and child becomes involved in an uneasy relationship with another damaged family. Morgan has been compared to J.M. Coetzee and Damon Galgut for his first novel. Tsamma Season by Rosemund Handler is set in the Kalahari in the late 1800s. It is a moving novel of love, loss and betrayal, with a strong sense of place. Black Petals by Bryan Rostron features an archivist who chances upon his own police file, prompting him to reflect on his past and attempt to reconstruct who he really was. Rostron uses the metaphor of the archive to explore memory and forgetting, secrets, lies and the construction of identity. The Shape of Him by Gill Schierhout is a story of identity, loss and the weight of memory. A woman in the 1940s is haunted by her doomed relationship with a man with a degenerative brain disease. Written in spare prose, this debut has been highly praised. Trespass by Dawn Garisch is set in Cape Town in the 1950s and depicts the thoughts and memories of a boarding-school matron who is haunted by the shameful secret of her teenage pregnancy. A very different boarding-school novel is John van de Ruits Spud: Learning to Fly, the third book in the immensely popular Spud series. Each book is a witty account of a year at boarding school and Spuds journals reflect on the changing country, his school life and his eccentric family. The series has been a publishing phenomenon and shows no sign of slowing down. At one point all three volumes were on the best-seller lists at the same time. In a country where 20,000 sold copies of a book make it a best-seller, the first Spud book has sold over 180,000 copies. This success has shown that there is a market for entertaining, intelligent fiction
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set in South Africa. Fiona Snyckers delightfully funny debut looks set to follow in Spuds footsteps. The first in a projected series, Trinity Rising covers a students first year at university where she must cope with moral dilemmas and intellectual challenges. Trinity has proved herself a very popular heroine, with the novel being reprinted in the first year and finding its way into bookshops which do not usually stock South African fiction. Other novels employing humour include The 30th Candle by Angela Makholwa, which explores friendship and the quest for love and fulfilment by four young black women. Sumayya Lees Maha, Ever After is a story of love and second chances. When Maha demands a divorce, she faces the disapproval of the Muslim community and begins to reinvent herself. Gaile Parkins Baking Cakes in Kigali is set in present day Rwanda and uses gentle humour to depict the daily life of the characters. The Lazarus Funeral Parlour by Pamela Oberem depicts religious and personal conflict in a small town. Zakes Mdas latest novel Black Diamond is a satire on contemporary South African life, featuring a large cast of characters, including a convict out for revenge, the magistrate who sent him to jail, and the bodyguard hired to protect her. Saracen at the Gates by Zinaid Meeran is a satiric, funny and poignant novel set in Johannesburgs Indian community and explores the fluidity of identity. Zakira is juggling the expectations of her family with her own identity, a struggle further complicated when she falls in love with the leader of an anarchist girl-gang, The Saracens. Meeran is one of several authors who explore Indian identity. High Low In-Between by Imraan Coovadia focuses on the educated Indian middle class and their struggle to find a place in post-apartheid South Africa. It also encompasses themes such as bereavement and loss, politics, AIDS, race relations and illegal organ transplants. In The Pragashini-Smuts Affair Agnes Sam shows the growing political awareness of a young Indian girl and the collision of politics, culture and family, while Aziz Hassims Revenge of Kali, Praba Moodleys Follow Your Heart and Fiona Khans Reeds of Wrath explore the experiences of indentured Indian labourers. South Africa was shocked by outbreaks of xenophobic violence in 2008 which feature in several works of fiction exploring xenophobia and the plight of refugees. Most notable are Refuge by Andrew Brown and The Billion Dollar Soccer Ball by Michael Williams. Much of the fiction for young adults explores serious issues. Secret Celebrity by Deborah Ewing deals with human trafficking, while Fuse by S.A. Partridge addresses bullying and school violence. Freedom Song by Nokuthula Mazibuko moves between teenage activists recruited into the armed struggle in the 1980s and the same characters reunited in 2008 and working together to uncover corruption in a government department. No More Secrets by Helen Brain and Shivas Dance by Elana Bregin explore the impact of family secrets
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and the quest for identity. Bregans novel blurs the boundaries between adult and teenage fiction. Several novels deal with dysfunctional families, frequently shown through the eyes of a child narrator. The Elephant in the Room is an impressive debut by Maya Fowler and explores family secrets. Jason Donalds debut novel, Choke Chain, is set in the 1980s and explores masculinity and family relationships as two young boys struggle to escape the negative influence of their bullying father. Erica Emdons debut Jelly Dog Days depicts a young girl subjected to neglect as well as sexual and emotional abuse. Poet Sally-Ann Murrays first novel Small Moving Parts is a lyrical comingof-age novel depicting a young girls childhood in working-class Durban in the 1960s. In her sixth novel, Lynn Freed continues to explore relationships between mothers and daughters. Set in 1950s South Africa, The Servants Quarters examines privilege, power and class in an unconventional romance which has elements of Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. Sheila Kohlers Becoming Jane Eyre is a fictionalised biography of Charlotte Bront, showing how events in Bronts life came to influence the writing of Jane Eyre. Jane Taylor also uses fictional biography in The Transplant Men, an imagined tale of Chris Barnard, the South African doctor who performed the first heart transplant. Set in the 1960s, the novel is told through the perspective of a recipient of an organ transplant who recounts his memories. Several novels have turned their attention to the distant past. Most notable of those that deal with ancient history is Mari Heeses The Double Crown, which is based on the true story of a female pharaoh who ruled Egypt around 1500BC. Told in Hatshepsuts voice, each section ends with the scribes comments and reflections, which serve to undermine the narrators self-presentation. Heeses exploration of the nature of memoir and the relationship between fact and fiction is a theme in much of this years fiction. A more straightforward story is David Ferreiras David: The Warrior King, a fictional account of the biblical character. Turning to more recent history is Jacques Pauw, an award-winning journalist who has written three non-fiction books documenting apartheidera killers. Little Ice Cream Boy is his fictional account of the life of Ferdi Barnard, based on interviews with apartheid assassins. A prison inmate tells his story from his childhood to his life as a gangster, drug-dealer and member of an apartheid hit squad. This disturbing but well-written novel grapples with the nature of evil. Alan Elsdon attempts something similar in The Tall Assassin, although with less success. A Man Who Is Not a Man by Thando Mgqolozana deals with the controversial topic of traditional circumcision, the initiation process by which Xhosa boys are seen to become men. Every year, dozens of young men die or are maimed due to complications, or what are known as botched circumcisions. When the protagonist of the novel seeks medical attention, he must deal not only
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with the pain and physical trauma, but also with the social ostracism of being seen as having failed in his initiation and, thus, with not being a true man. This is a brave debut which breaks the silence on a practice shrouded in secrecy and which challenges traditional views of masculinity. The Book of the Dead by Kgebetli Moele is a chilling depiction of the dangers of materialism and promiscuity. A bitter man with AIDS deliberately tries to infect as many people as possible. In an interesting literary device, the HI virus becomes a character, narrating part of the novel in the first person. Carel van der Merwes second novel, Shark, appeared in English and Afrikaans, with the Afrikaans version winning the Eugne Marais Prize. Shark explores nepotism, corruption and crime in the corporate world. Wessel Ebersohn was a forerunner of the current boom in crime fiction and now returns to the fray with his first novel in fourteen years, The October Killings, which combines crime fiction with social commentary. Peter Temple has won Australias most prestigious prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Truth, which blurs the boundaries between so-called genre novels and literary fiction. Roger Smiths debut novel Mixed Blood was voted the best crime novel for 2009 by Krimiwelt, a network of European crime-fiction reviewers. Other crime-fiction woks of note are A Deadly Trade by Michael Stanley, Beasts of Prey by Rob Marsh, My Brothers Keeper by Jassy Mackenzie, Daddys Girl by Margie Orford, and Exhibit A by Sarah Lotz. While crime fiction, humour and mainstream fiction are growing genres, there is still very little science fiction or fantasy being produced by South African publishers. Dave Freer publishes regularly with international publishers and returns with a delightful fantasy, Dragons Ring. The publication of Daniel Fox and the Jesters Legacy, the debut novel of Andy Petersen, is a promising sign. At sixteen, Petersen is the youngest author to be published in South Africa and has produced an intriguing fantasy of a teenager who dies and finds himself in the underworld where he must foil a plot to take over Earth. The novel is not without flaws but is an impressive feat for such a young author. Short stories were also rather neglected this year, although Gary Cummiskey and David Chislett produced interesting collections. Out of this years anthologies, You Pay for the View and Touch were particularly noteworthy. Text Bites includes stories, poems and non-fiction, while Load Shedding contains memoirs, essays and other literary non-fiction. The non-fiction section this year includes several writers memoirs, the most significant being Andr Brinks A Fork in the Road. Published simultaneously in English and Afrikaans (as is the case with most of his novels), it has been nominated for several awards, including the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in England. In Short Drive to Freedom, the author and musician Koos Kombuis tells the inside story of
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the Volvry Tour, a pivotal period for alternative Afrikaans music which played a large role in raising the political awareness of Afrikaans youth in the 1980s. Poet and political activist Barry Feinbergs memoir Time to Tell gives insight into his life and work, but also the role played by the arts in the anti-apartheid struggle. Alan Paton: Selected Letters contains nearly 350 unpublished letters dating from 1922 to 1988. This well researched and beautifully produced volume is a valuable addition to Paton studies. Antjie Krogs Begging to Be Black could be best described as literary nonfiction, as it mixes memoir, history and poetry in an exploration of identity. Rian Malan and Breyten Breytenbach have attracted attention with their collections of essays. Breytenbach has also produced a reflection on writing. 2009 saw the death of several prominent older writers, including poets Don Maclennan and Dennis Brutus, novelists Daphne Rooke and Sheila Roberts, and James Ambrose Brown, who wrote plays, novels, history and childrens books. The literary world was saddened by the tragic early deaths of up-and-coming poet Mzwandile Matiwana, translator Luke Stubbs and poet, novelist and playwright Guy Willoughby.
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Ferreira, David J. David: The Warrior King xv+429pp Bridge-Logos (Alachua, Fla). Fikkert, Maggie Jade and the Serpents Circle 270pp Iziza (Johannesburg) [for young adults]. Fine, Martin The Devils Fragrance 356pp Eloquent Books (New York). Fisher, Martin R. Apartheids Other Back Yard 323pp Just Done Productions (Durban). Fowler, Maya The Elephant in the Room 270pp Kwela (Cape Town). Foxcroft, Annica More Ants! 208pp Thomas Stein (Johannesburg). Frankel, Hazel Counting Sleeping Beauties xiii+274pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg). Freed, Lynn The Servants Quarters 216pp Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston, Mass). Freer, Dave Dragons Ring 334pp Baen Books (Riverdale, NY). Gagadelis, Mona The Change of Heart 356pp AuthorHouse (Milton Keynes, UK). Gardener, James Faisals Tears 68pp New Voices (Cape Town) [short stories]. Garisch, Dawn Trespass 188pp Kwela (Cape Town). Gilson, Pamela Hot Chocolate with Chilli 140pp Osborne Porter Literary Services (Kloof) [short stories]. Shellrock Bones: Cro-Magnon P.I. 95pp Osborne Porter Literary Services (Westville). Grierson, Amanda Michelle Beneath the African Sun 240pp AuthorHouse (Bloomington, Ind). Halberstadt, Una Sally 338pp Lulu (Morrisville, NC). Hall, Peter Parrots, Witches and Call Centres 94pp Alexander House (Pietermaritzburg) [short stories]. Handler, Rosamund J. Tsamma Season 289pp Penguin (Johannesburg). Harthoog, Gina M. Wild at Heart: A Novel 165pp Just Done Productions (Durban). Hassim, Aziz Revenge of Kali 211pp STE (Johannesburg). Heese, Mari The Double Crown: Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh 384pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town). Hughes, Thea The Red Door 254pp Eloquent Books (New York). Khan, Fiona Reeds of Wrath 298pp Washesha (Durban). Kilgore, James We Are All Zimbabweans Now:A Novel 271pp Umuzi (Roggebaai). Kohler, Sheila Becoming Jane Eyre 234pp Penguin (New York). Latimer, Jo A Legal Alien 167pp Just Done Productions (Durban). Lee, Lorraine Love and Dishonour 152pp Raider Publishing International (New York). Lee, Sumayya Maha, Ever After 286pp Kwela (Cape Town). Lenasch, Radmer Belong: A Story about the Current of Kismet and Kin 528pp Eloquent Books (New York).
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Lewis, Annabelle Rainbow 202pp Strategic Book Publishing (New York) [for young adults]. The Refugees and the Rescue 152pp Strategic Book Publishing (Durham, Conn) [for young adults]. Lotz, Sarah Exhibit A 263pp Penguin (Johannesburg). Mackenzie, Jassy My Brothers Keeper 254pp Umuzi (Roggebaai). Makholwa, Angela The 30th Candle 319pp Pan Macmillan (Northlands). Manjoo, Yusuf The Flight of the Wooden Dancer 203pp Autumn Light (n.p.). Marais, Paula The Punishment: A Novel x+308pp Logogog Press (Johannesburg). Marsh, Rob Beasts of Prey 210pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town). Mazibuko, Nokuthula Freedom Song 105pp Maskew Miller Longman (Cape Town) [for young adults]. McQueen, Meryl The Slavery of Flight 330pp Indigo Falls Press (Artamon, NSW). Mda, Zakes Black Diamond 207pp Penguin (Johannesburg). Meeran, Zinaid Saracen at the Gates 360pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park). Mgqolozana, Thando A Man Who Is Not a Man 188pp Univ KwaZuluNatal Press (Scottsville). Mitford, Bertram The Indunas Wife ed and intro Gerald Monsman 198pp Valancourt Books (Kansas City, Kan) [first pub 1898]. Moele, Kgebetli The Book of the Dead 165pp Kwela (Cape Town). Moodley, Praba Follow Your Heart 188pp Kwela (Cape Town). Morgan, Alistair Sleepers Wake 180pp Penguin (Johannesburg). Morley, Isla Come Sunday 319pp Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York). Morsbach, Jill Shakas Computer 91pp Shuter (Pietermaritzburg) [for young adults]. Murray, Sally-Ann Small Moving Parts 408pp Kwela (Cape Town). Naud, Tom Dance of the Rain 153pp Heinemann (Sandton). Ngwenya, Jabulile Bongiwe I Aint Yo Bitch 166pp Paper Bag Publishing (Johannesburg). Noble, Leslie Hyla Winton Regina 357pp Just Done Productions (Durban) [for young adults]. ONeill, Joe Kudu Ridge 215pp Lulu (Morrisville, NC). Oberem, Pamela The Lazarus Funeral Parlour 191pp Umuzi (Roggebaai). Orford, Margie Daddys Girl 367pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg). Parkin, Gaile Baking Cakes in Kigali 361pp Atlantic Books (London). Partridge, S.A. Fuse 218pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [for young adults]. Pauw, Jacques Little Ice Cream Boy x+387pp Penguin (Johannesburg). Pendragon, Arthur Where There Is Smoke 394pp Crink (Hatfield). Penn, L.R. Diamonds on a River of Tears 528pp AuthorHouse (Bloomington, Ind).
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Petersen, Andy Daniel Fox and the Jesters Legacy 282pp Penguin (Johannesburg) [for young adults]. Pollock, William T. The Ghost of Samuel Cetswayo: Based on a True Story xix+439pp AuthorHouse (Milton Keynes, UK). Preller, Gustav Icarus over Hong Kong 283pp Vanguard (Cambridge). Preston-Whyte, Robert Revenge Cannot Wait 342pp Osborne Porter Literary Services (Kloof). Rapola, Zachariah Stanzas Soccer World Cup 154pp Maskew Miller Longman (Cape Town) [for young adults]. Reeve, Brian Deadly Instinct 279pp Book Guild (Brighton, Sussex). Rostron, Bryan Black Petals: A Novel 186pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park). Russo, Lyz The Mystery of the Solar Wind 482pp PKaboo (n.p.). Sam, Agnes The Pragashini-Smuts Affair 316pp Paloma Books (Heslington, UK). Sanders, Edwin Worthy to Be Loved 242pp Raider Publishing International (New York). Schierhout, Gill The Shape of Him 210pp Jonathan Cape (London). Scholtz, Pieter Milo and the Sunflower: A Journey beyond the Sunset 108pp Horus (Durban) [for young adults]. The Wind Is a Story 282pp Horus (Durban) [for young adults]. Scully, William Charles Kafir Stories 107pp Dodo Press (New York) [first pub 1895]. Smith, Roger Mixed Blood: A Thriller 304pp Henry Holt (New York). Smith, Wilbur Assegai 472pp Macmillan (London). Snyckers, Fiona Trinity Rising 373pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg). Stanley, Michael, pseud A Deadly Trade 438pp Headline (London). Starbuck, Penny J. Dreamspinners: Level Green: The Rising 376pp Crest (Petervale). Stein, Sylvester What the World Owes Me by Mary Bowes 52pp The Nononsense Press (London) [first pub 1960]. Taylor, Dora Rage of Life ed Sheila Belshaw 199pp Penguin (Johannesburg). Taylor, Jane The Transplant Men 141pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park). Temple, Peter Truth 400pp Text Publishing (Camberwell, Vic). Trularin, pseud The Last Map to the Throne of God 631pp iUniverse (New York). Truscott, Clayton Notes from a Night Bus and Other Stories 132pp Attic Door (Port Elizabeth). Tyson, Harvey Blood on the Path: A Saga of the Founding of South Africa 100 Years Ago 564pp Springbok Press (Bot River). Van der Merwe, Carel Shark 256pp Umuzi (Roggebaai). Van der Ruit, John Spud: Learning To Fly 412pp Penguin (Johannesburg). Wende, Hamilton House of War 266pp Penguin (Johannesburg). Wiese, C.S. Equity & Fireflies 182pp Crink (Hatfield).
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Williams, Michael The Billion Dollar Soccer Ball 218pp Maskew Miller Longman (Cape Town) [for young adults]. Woodhead, Patrick The Cloud Maker 384pp Preface Publishing (London). Xaba, Eric Living with the Consequences of Love and Care 117pp New Voices (Cape Town). Yell, Nicholas Karoo Tales and Images v+126pp Springbok Press (Bot River). Translations Barnard, Chris Mahala trans from Afrikaans by Luzette Strauss 170pp Aflame Books (Laverstock, Wilts) [novel]. De Villiers, Leon Shorn trans from Afrikaans by Elsa Silke 172pp LAPA (Pretoria) [novel; for young adults]. Meyer, Deon Blood Safari trans from Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers 374pp Hodder & Stoughton (London) [novel]. Von Meck, Anoeschka My Name Is Vaselinetjie trans from Afrikaans by Elsa Silke 248pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [novel]. Anthologies African Women Playwrights ed and intro Kathy Perkins x+364pp Univ Illinois Press (Urbana; Chicago, Ill). At This Stage: Plays from Post-Apartheid South Africa ed Greg Homann vi+177pp Witwatersrand Univ Press (Johannesburg). Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry ed Frank Chipasula xv+285pp Southern Illinois Univ Press (Carbondale, Ill). The Best of Hayibo.com: Hayibo! Breaking News. Into Lots of Little Pieces 96pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park) [multi-genre]. Botsotso: An Anthology of Contemporary South African Poetry ed Allan Kolski Horwitz and Ken Edwards 236pp Reality Street (Hastings, East Sussex). Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery POWA (People Opposing Women Abuse) Womens Writing Competition 135pp Fanele (Auckland Park) [multi-genre]. Flights of Fancy: An Anthology of Stories BAT Adult Dancing Pencils Writing Club 84pp umSinsi (Malvern). The Greatest Gift: A South African Book of Verse ed Yvonne Strydom 202pp Christian Poetry Association (Umkomaas). Journey of Faith: A South African Book of Verse ed Yvonne Strydom 220pp Christian Poetry Association (Umkomaas). Journeys 2009: World Anthology of Poetry ed Graham Vivian Lancaster and Shaleen Kumar Singh 137pp Alexander House incorporating Trayberry Press (Pietermaritzburg).
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Laugh It off Annual: South African Youth Culture; Vol 4 ed Justin Nurse 123pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park) [multi-genre]. Load Shedding: Writing on and over the Edge of South Africa ed Liz McGregor and Sarah Nuttall 250pp Jonathan Ball (Jeppestown) [multi-genre]. New Writing from Africa 2009: Original Short Stories by African Writers select South African Centre of International PEN 403pp Johnson & KingJames Books (Cape Town). The Perfect Choice and Other Stories Craig Smith and others 124pp Macmillan (Johannesburg) [for young adults]. South Africa: A Travelers Literary Companion ed Isabel Balseiro and Tobias Hecht xvi+239pp Whereabouts Press (Berkeley, Calif). Spaces: Ecca Poets Brian Walter, Norman Morrissey, Laura Kirsten, Mariss Everitt, Quentin Hogge and Cathal Lagan 63pp Ecca (Hogsback). A State of Outrage and Other Stories comp Andries Oliphant viii+280pp Maskew Miller Longman (Cape Town) [for young adults]. Ten Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing ed Chris Brazier 205pp New Internationalist (Oxford) [short stories]. Text Bites: South African Poems, Plays, Stories and Non-Fiction comp Chris Thurman xvi+176pp Oxford Univ Press (Cape Town) [for young adults]. Touch: Stories of Contact by South African Writers ed Karina Magdalena Szczurek xi+226pp Zebra Press (Cape Town). Undabamllonyeni / Stories in the Mouth Narrative Foundation Dancing Pencils Writing Club 80pp umSinsi (Malvern) [text in Zulu and English]. What Shall We Do Now? and Other One-Act Plays Themba Interactive, Anton Krueger, Ann Walton, Michael Britton and Renos Nicos Spanoudos 191pp Macmillan (Northlands) [for young adults]. Work in Progress and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing: 9th Annual Collection intro Nick Elam 179pp New Internationalist (Oxford); Jacana (Johannesburg). You Pay for the View: A Collection of Classic and New Short Stories comp Sindiwe Magona vi+186pp Maskew Miller Longman (Cape Town). Criticism
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Africa Thina? Xenophobic and Cosmopolitan Agency in Johannesburgs Film and Television Drama Loren Kruger Journal of Southern African Studies 35(1) pp23752. Africa Writing Europe: Opposition, Juxtaposition, Entanglement ed Maria Olaussen and Christina Angelfors xxxii+278pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).
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African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen Lindiwe Dovey xviii+335pp Columbia Univ Press (New York). The African Historical Novel M. Keith Booker The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel pp14157 [see this section]. The Anxiety of Affect: Melodrama and South African Film Studies Anton van der Hoven and Jill Arnott Social Dynamics 35(1) pp16276. Autobiography and Bildungsroman in African Literature Apollo Amoko The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel pp195208 [see this section]. Blackwomens Bodies as Battlegrounds in Black Consciousness Literature: Wayward Sex and (Interracial) Rape as Tropes in Staffrider, 19781982 Pumla Dineo Gqola Imagining, Writing, Re(Reading) the Black Body pp97113 [see this section]. Brief Chronicles: South African Literatures in Historical Context Kenneth Parker xi+251pp Univ South Africa Press (Pretoria); Koninklijke Brill (Leiden). The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel ed F. Abiola Irele xxii+282pp Cambridge Univ Press (Cambridge, UK). A Change of Thinking: White Womens Writing Eva Hunter Current Writing 21(1/2) pp7896. The Changing Face of African Literature / Les Nouveaux Visages de la Littrature Africaine ed Bernard De Meyer and Neil Ten Kortenaar xxii+216pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York). Close Encounters with Shakespeares Text ed Peter Holland 454pp Cambridge Univ Press (Cambridge, UK). The Devil You Dance with: Film Culture in the New South Africa ed Audrey Thomas McCluskey x+236pp Univ Illinois Press (Urbana, Ill) [interviews]. Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-Apartheid Sarah Nuttall ix+198pp Wits Univ Press (Johannesburg). Examining Canonisation in Modern African Literature Tanure Ojaide Asiatic 3(1) pp120. Expanding South Africanness: Debut Novels Margaret Lenta Current Writing 21(1/2) pp5977. Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing ed Rob Spillman xxi+344pp Penguin (Johannesburg) [includes short stories]. The Growth of Free State Black Writing; Part 8 ed Peter Moroe 51pp Eclectic Writers Club (Bloemfontein). Handspring Puppet Company ed Jane Taylor 279pp David Krut (Parkwood). The Imagination of Freedom: Critical Texts and Times in Contemporary Liberalism Andrew Foley ix+315pp Wits Univ Press (Johannesburg).
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Imagining, Writing, Re(Reading) the Black Body ed Sandra Jackson, Fassil Demissie and Michele Goodwin xxii+188pp UNISA Press (Pretoria). Indigeneity: Culture and Representation: Proceedings of the 2008 Chotro Conference on Indigenous Languages, Culture and Society; Volume 1 ed G.N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis and K.K. Chakravarty xvi+405pp Orient Blackswan (New Delhi). Ivan Vladislavic and What-What: Among Writers, Readers and Other Odds, Sods and Marginals Sally-Ann Murray Current Writing 21(1/2) pp13863. Judging New South African Fiction in the Transnational Moment Leon de Kock Current Writing 21(1/2) pp2458. Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa James Graham x+203pp Routledge (New York; London). Land of My Sons: The Politics of Gender in Black Consciousness Poetry Dobrota Pucherova Journal of Postcolonial Writing 45(3) pp33140. Landscape and Body Greg Homann South African Theatre Journal 23 pp14976. Letters...in the Thick of Affairs: The Place of Fiction in Africa South, 1957-61 M.J. Daymond Transformation (70) pp3153. The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences Peter D. McDonald xvi+416pp Oxford Univ Press (Oxford, UK). Mouth Wide Open: Political Satire in Post-Apartheid South Africa Erhard Reckwitz pp15366 in Political Correctness: Mouth Wide Shut? ed Wajciech Kalaga, Jacek Mydla and Katarzyna Ancuta 223pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main). My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land: Racial Redefinition, African American Culture, and the Creation of the Black World in South Africas Black Consciousness Movement Ofole Mgbako Safundi 10(3) pp30534. Neo-Imperialism in Childrens Literature about Africa: A Study of Contemporary Fiction Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann xiii+175pp Routledge (New York; London, UK). New Voices, Emerging Themes Dominic Thomas The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel pp22741 [see this section]. Novel Truths: Literature and Truth Commissions Paul Gready Comparative Literature Studies 46(1) pp15676. Picturing the African Diaspora in Recent Fiction J.U. Jacobs Current Writing 21(1/2) pp97116. The Pleasures of the Political: Apartheid and Postapartheid South African Fiction Louise Bethlehem Teaching the African Novel pp22245 [see this section]. Postcolonial Pomosexuality: Queer/Alternative Fiction after Disgrace Cheryl Stobie Current Writing 21(1/2) pp32041.
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Protest and Resistance Barbara Harlow The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel pp5168 [see this section]. Publishing for Children in South African Languages Jay Heale Sankofa 8 pp3844. Shakespeare on the Apartheid Stage: The Subversive Strain Rohan Quince The Shakespearean International Yearbook pp87104 [see this section]. The Shakespearean International Yearbook; 9: Special Section: South African Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century ed Graham Bradshaw, Tom Bishop and Laurence Wright vii+301pp Ashgate (Farnham, UK). Short Filmmaking in South Africa after Apartheid Martin P. Botha Internet: Kinema Spring pp[10]. Situating Place for Environmental Literacy Julia Martin English Studies in Africa 52(2) pp3549. South African Literature after the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss Shane Graham ix+235pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York). South African Theatre beyond 2000: Theatricalising the Unspeakable Marcia Blumberg Current Writing 21(1/2) pp23860. Teaching the African Novel ed Gaurav Desai ix+427pp The Modern Language Association of America (New York). To Remember Is like Starting to See: South African Life Stories Today Annie Gagiano Current Writing 21(1/2) pp26185. Toward an (Avian) Aesthetic of (Avian) Absence Travis V. Mason Alternation 16(2) pp15279. Transgressing Boundaries? Romance, Power and Sexuality in Contemporary South African English Young Adult Fiction Judith Inggs International Research in Childrens Literature 2(1) pp10114. Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture Stefan Helgesson xii+164pp Routledge (New York; London, UK). Twelve Best Books by African Women: Critical Readings ed Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Tuzyline Jita Allan ix+278pp Ohio Univ Press (Athens, Ohio). Voices and Silence in the Contemporary Novel in English ed Vanessa Guignery ix+292pp Cambridge Scholars Press (Newcastle, UK). What National Cinema? South African Film Cultures and the Transnational Patrick Denman Flanery Safundi 10(2) pp23953 [review]. White Lies, White Truths: Confession and Childhood in White South African Womens Narratives Georgina Horrell Scrutiny2 14(2) pp5971. White Women Writing White: Identity and Representation in (Post-) Apartheid Literatures of South Africa Mary West vii+232pp David Philip (Claremont). Who Is to Say...That the Hen Did Not Speak? Bird Subjectivities in Some Southern African Narratives Wendy Woodward Alternation 16(2) pp24161.
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Word & Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures ed Michael Meyer xliii+379pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York). Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa ed Okey Ndibe and Chenjerai Hove 190pp Adonis & Abbey (London, UK); The Nordic Africa Institute (Uppsala). Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present ed Benedict Carton, John Laband and Jabulani Sithole xxv+633pp Univ KwaZulu-Natal Press (Scottsville).
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Abrahams, Peter Peter Abrahams: A View of His Own Jane Bryce Baobab 4 pp247. Afrika, Tatamkhulu A Language to Fit Africa: Africanness and Europeanness in the South African Imagination Gabeba Baderoon Africa Writing Europe pp6793 [see Criticism: General]. The Five Names of Tatamkhulu Afrika Gabeba Baderoon World Literature Today 83(1) pp5660. Bailey, Brett Brett Bailey and Third World Bunfight: Journeys into the South African Psyche Daniel Larlham Theater 39(1) pp727. Bain, Andrew Geddes Two Hottentots, Some Scots and a West Indian Slave: The Origins of Kaatje Kekkelbek Damian Shaw English Studies in Africa 52(2) pp414. Behr, Mark The Blank Maps of Difficult Desires: Sexuality and African Literature in the Classroom Neville Hoad Teaching the African Novel pp34057 [see Criticism: General]. Beiles, Sinclair Who Was Sinclair Beiles? ed Gary Cummiskey and Eva Kowalska 135pp Dye Hard Press (Sandton). Bolaji, Omoseye Omoseye Bolaji: Further Perspectives ed Julia Mooi 45pp Eselby Jnr (Bloemfontein). Breytenbach, Breyten An Interview with Breyten Breytenbach Andr Naffis PN Review Sep/Oct pp[7]. Labyrinth of Loneliness: Breyten Breytenbachs Prison Poetry, 1976-1985 Helize van Vuuren Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 46(2) pp4356. Looking out and Looking In: The Dynamic Use of Words and Images in the Oeuvre of Breyten Breytenbach Heilna du Plooy Word & Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures pp14765 [see Criticism: General]. The Memoirs of Breyten Breytenbach J.M. Coetzee Gods and Soldiers pp25971 [see Criticism: General]. True Confessions, End Papers and the Dakar Conference: A Review of the Political Arguments Hermann Giliomee Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 46(2) pp2842.
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Writing Is Travelling Unfolding Its (sic) Own Landscape: A Discussion with Breyten Breytenbach on A Veil of Footsteps Sandra Saayman Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 46(2) pp20112 [interview]. Zen Communist: Breyten Breytenbachs View from Underground Andrew Nash Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 46(2) pp1127. Brink, Andr First Hand Becomes Second Hand: Andr Brinks A Dry White Season Mlanie Joseph-Villain Commonwealth Essays and Studies 32(1) pp98109. Scheherazades Dilemma: An Exploration of Andr Brinks Prose Oeuvre Published after 2000 Godfrey Meintjes The Changing Face of African Literature pp11934 [see Criticism: General]. Brown, Andrew Reflections on Inyenzi: Andrew Brown and Karin Samuel in Conversation Karin Samuel Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa pp17183 [interview; see Criticism: General]. Brutus, Dennis Language as Agency of Revolt in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus Eunice Ngongkum Lagos Papers in English Studies 4 pp12037. Cameron, Edwin I Am Not Dying of AIDS, I Am Living with AIDS: Representations of the Body and HIV/AIDS in South African Literature Ellen Grnkemeier pp1931 in The Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English: Cultural and Political Implications ed Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Marta Fernndez Morales 200pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main). Living between Deaths: Temporality and the South African AIDS Autopathography Ashlee Polatinsky English Studies in Africa 52(1) pp3849. Chase-Riboud, Barbara The Iron Fettered Weight of All Civilization: The Project of Barbara Chase-Ribouds Narratives of Slavery Ashraf H.A. Rushdy Callaloo 32(3) pp75872. Omnipresent Negation: Hottentot Venus and Africa Rising Carlos A. Miranda and Suzette A. Spencer Callaloo 32(3) pp91033. Christians, Yvette The African Oceans: Tracing the Sea as Memory of Slavery in South African Literature and Culture Gabeba Baderoon Research in African Literatures 40(4) pp89107. A Language to Fit Africa: Africanness and Europeanness in the South African Imagination Gabeba Baderoon Africa Writing Europe pp6793 [see Criticism: General]. Clouts, Sydney Lines of Flight: Sydney Cloutss Birds Dan Wylie Alternation 16(2) pp12651. Coetzee, J.M. Animal Ethics and Human Identity in J.M. Coetzees The Lives of Animals Alan Northover Scrutiny2 14(2) pp2839. Between History and the Gods: Reason, Morality, and Politics in Todays Africa Emmanuel C. Eze Africa Today 55(2) pp7794.
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The Cambridge Introduction to J.M. Coetzee Dominic Head xii+115pp Cambridge Univ Press (Cambridge). Capital Games: On Judging a South African Literary Award Michael Titlestad Safundi 10(4) pp45969. Coetzee, Gordimer and the Nobel Prize Michael Chapman Scrutiny2 14(1) pp5765. Coetzee in/and Afrikaans Rita Barnard Journal of Literary Studies 25(4) pp84105. Coetzee in the Promised Land Matthew Cheney Internet: The Quarterly Conversation 8 Dec pp[10]. Coming into Being: J.M. Coetzees Slow Man and the Aesthetic of Hospitality Michael Marais Contemporary Literature 50(2) pp27398. Comparison Literature Rebecca L. Walkowitz New Literary History 40(3) pp56782. The Dog-Man: Race, Sex, Species, and Lineage in Coetzees Disgrace Deirdre Coleman Twentieth-Century Literature 55(4) pp597617. Double Entendre: Listening for Angels Shaun Irlam Journal of Literary Studies 25(4) pp12539. Encountering Darkness: Intertextuality and Polyphony in J.M. Coetzees Dusklands (1974) and Matthew Kneales English Passengers (2000) Caroline Lusin pp6985 in Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation ed Sarah Sckel, Walter Gbel and Noha Hamdy 276pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York). Encountering Disgrace: Reading and Teaching Coetzees Novel ed Bill McDonald viii+363pp Camden House (New York). Going to the Dogs in Disgrace Marianne Dekoven ELH 76(4) pp84775. Gone for Good: Coetzees Disgrace Ian Glenn English in Africa 36(2) pp7998. How the West Was Won: J.M. Coetzee and Postcolonial Canons Lily Saint pp99109 in Moment to Monument: The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance ed Ladina Bezzola Lambert and Andrea Ochsner 227pp Transaction (New Brunswick, NJ). The Human Document Nancy Ruttenburg Journal of Literary Studies 25(4) pp5166. Intentional Schizophrenia: J.M. Coetzees Autobiographical Trilogy and the Falling Authority of the Author Matthew Cheney Internet: The Quarterly Conversation 7 Dec pp[11]. Intertextuality and Other Analogues in J.M. Coetzees Slow Man C. Kenneth Pellow Contemporary Literature 50(3) pp52852. J.M. Coetzee: Countervoices Carrol Clarkson ix+230pp Palgrave Macmillan (Houndmills, UK).
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J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of Africa David Attwell Journal of Literary Studies 25(4) pp6783. J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Language Carrol Clarkson Journal of Literary Studies 25(4) pp10624. J.M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship Jane Poyner ix+204pp Ashgate (Farnham, UK). J.M. Coetzee in Context and Theory ed Elleke Boehmer, Katy Iddiols and Robert Eaglestone x+206pp Continuum (London, UK). J.M. Coetzees Diary of a Bad Year: Between Essay Writing and Fiction Richard Samin Commonwealth Essays and Studies 32(1) pp4553. King of the Amphibians: Elizabeth Costello and Coetzees Metamorphoric Fictions Michael Valdez Moses Journal of Literary Studies 25(4) pp2538. The Nonhuman Animal and Levinasian Otherness: Contemporary Narratives and Criticism Wendy Woodward Current Writing 21(1/2) pp34262. The Poetics of Dwelling: A Consideration of Heidegger, Kafka, and Michael K Eric Paul Meljac Journal of Modern Literature 32(1) pp6976. The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee Hania A.M. Nashef xxii+196pp Routledge (New York; London, UK). The Post-Secular Poetics and Ethics of Exposure in J.M. Coetzees Disgrace Alyda Faber Literature & Theology 23(3) pp30316. Queer Family Romance: Writing the New South Africa in the 1990s Brenna M. Munro GLQ 15(3) pp397439. Reading through the Gates: Structure, Desire and Subjectivity in J.M. Coetzees Elizabeth Costello Eckard Smuts English in Africa 36(2) pp6377. Resisting History, Resisting Story: J.M. Coetzees The Life and Times of Michael K Bozena Kucala Voices and Silence in the Contemporary Novel in English pp27280 [see Criticism: General]. Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee Mike Marais xvi+249pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York). The Silent Ghostly I-Figure in Coetzees Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life and the Grotesque Writing of an Unnameable Secret Genevive Ducros Voices and Silence in the Contemporary Novel in English pp26071 [see Criticism: General]. Slow Man and the Real: A Lesson in Reading and Writing Zo Wicomb Journal of Literary Studies 25(4) pp724. The Stalled Sublime: J.M. Coetzees Foe Mark Mathuray pp13761 and 1814 in On the Sacred in African Literature Mark Mathuray viii+205pp Palgrave Macmillan (Houndmills, UK). States of Shame: South African Writing after Apartheid Caitlin Charos Safundi 10(3) pp273304.
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