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NEW ARRIVALS
June 2007


 

Attridge (D.) J.M.COETZEE AND THE ETHICS OF READING, literature in the event, 225 pp., paperback, Chicago, London & Pietermaritzburg, 2005.

  R165
  A study of J.M.Coetzee's work that examines the questions central to current debates within literary studies and ethics that J.M. Coetzee raises in his novels.

Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York.
 

Bethlehem (L.) SKIN TIGHT, apartheid literary culture and its aftermath, 145 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2006.

  R230
  Using the tools of postcolonial theory and gender studies Louise Bethlehem examines how South African literary studies has viewed the role of literature in a context of severe political oppression and resistance.
 

Dooling (W.) SLAVERY, EMANCIPATION AND COLONIAL RULE IN SOUTH AFRICA, , 249 pp., maps, paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

  R190
  Wayne Dooling examines how the landed slave owning ruling class in South Africa came to be, how it exercised power and how the legal ending of servile labour affected this landed class, its former slaves and Khoisan servants and the colonial state in general.

Wayne Dooling lectures at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London.
 

Duncan (P.) SOTHO LAWS AND CUSTOMS, a handbook based on decided cases in Basutoland together with the laws of Lerotholi, 169 pp., hardback, d.w., Morija, (1960) 2006.

  R395
  Facsimile reprint of the original 1960 edition, with a new foreword by W.C.M.Maqutu.

From 1950 to 1952 Patrick Duncan presided as Judicial Commissioner over the Appellate Court for cases of Basotho law and custom during the time when Lesotho was a British Protectorate.
 

Eilersen (G.S.) BESSIE HEAD: THUNDER BEHIND HER EARS, her life and writing, 374 pp., paperbackillus., paperback, Johannesburg, (1995) 2007.

  R220
  A biography about Bessie Head, based on interviews with many of her friends and professional contacts and her extensive correspondence, archived at the Khama Memorial Museun in Serowe. This new edition includes previously unpublished photographs and a new chapter on Bessie Head's childhood.

Writer and academic Gillian Stead Eilersen lectured in the Department of English at Odense Universiry, Denmark, until 1995.
 

Fox (J.) ed. CAPE TOWN CALLING, from Mandela to Theroux on the Mother City, 232 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R140
  An anthology of extracts about Cape Town selected from works of fiction and non-fiction published between the late 1960s and the present. Authors include J.M.Coetzee, Nelson Mandela, Paul Theroux, Richard Rive, Rian Malan, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Breyten Breytenbach, Gabeba Naderoon, Shaun Johnson, Ahmed Kathrada, Njabulo Ndebele, Maphela Ramphele and Stephen Watson, amongst others.
 

Grey (S.) GHOST PLANE, the inside story of the CIA's secret rendition programme, 306 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg & London, (2006) 2007.

  R180
  Using prisomers' accounts, interviews with pilots and CIA flight logs journalist Stephen Grey reveals how the CIA transports prisoners to foreign jails and its own secret facilities around the world knowing they will be tortured.

Grey's reporting on the CIA rendition programme won the Amnesty International 2005 Media Award for Best Periodical Article, was declared runner-up "story of the year" by the Foreign Press Association in 2004, and has been short-listed for the 2006 Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism.
 

Heunis (J.) THE INNER CIRCLE, reflections on the last days of white rule, 207 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R130
  Lawyer Jan Heunis, son of Nationalist Party Constitutional Development minister Chris Heunis, was Chief State Law Adviser in the State President's Office under P.W.Botha. He also played an influencial role in the multi-party negotaitions that led to the 1996 Constitution. He offers appraisals of key players such as P.W.Botha, Nelson Mandela, Pik Botha, F.W.de Klerk, Kobie Coetsee, Denis Worrall, Heunis Kriel, Roelf Meyer, and his own father.

Also available in Afrikaans.
 

Iliffe (J.) THE AFRICAN AIDS EPIDEMIC, a history, 214 pp., maps, paperback, Oxford etc, 2006.

  R160
  An introduction to the history of the Aids epidemic that uses medical, anthropological and eye-witness sources but assumes no prior knowledge.

John Iliffe is Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and as Fellow of St John's College.
 

Jeppie (S.) LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, MODERNITY, the Arabic Study Circle of Durban, 136 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R90
  A history of the Arabic Study Circle, formed in the 1950s in Durban. The aim of this group of men, mainly from middle class Indian, Muslim, Gujurati-speaking backgrounds, was to promote a contemporary approach to the study of the Arabic language and of Islam.

Shamil Jeppie teaches in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town.
 

Lederer (M.S.) & Tumedi (S.M.) eds. WRITING BESSIE HEAD IN BOTSWANA, an anthology of rememberance and criticism, 185 pp., paperback, Gaberone, 2007.

  R155
  An anthology that brings together memoirs, personal writings and reflections about Bessie Head by people who knew her and critical analyses on her life and writing by Batswana academics and academics living in Botswana.

Contributions include "How I Remember Bessie Head" by Patrick van Rensberg,
"A Warrior Alone (letter to Dan Gover on Bessie Head's death), conversations and consternations with B Head" by Tom Holzinger,
"Identity and Race in Bessie Head's 'Maru'" by Mompoloki Bagwasi,
"Reinterpreting the Past and Rearranging the Present: Besie Head's 'A Question of Power' and Paule Marshall's 'Praisesong for the Widow'" by Mary Lederer,
"Character, Role, Madness, God, Biography, Narrative: dismantling and reassembling Bessie Head's 'A Question of Power'" by David Kerr,
"Living Under the Power of the Fathers: Bessie Head's and Lília Momplé's women" by Seatholo M.Tumedi.
 

Loomba (A.) et. al. (eds.) POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES, and beyond, 499 pp., illus., paperback, Durham & London, 2005.

  R295
  Contributions include "'The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into': quotidian experience and the perspectives of poetry in postliberation South Africa" by Kelwyn Sole, "Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: the South African differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams" by Laura Chrisman and "Hybridity and Heresy: apartheid comparative religion in late antiquity" by Daniel Boyarin.
 

Loos (J.) ECHOES OF SLAVERY, voices from South Africa's past, 168 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2004.

  R167
  Between 1806, when the British occupied the Cape for the second time, and 1834, when slavery was abolished, hundreds of illiterate slaves and ex-slaves addressed the authorities on subjects important to them: slaves complained to the fiscal, the courts, and the Slave Protectors, while "free blacks" had notaries write letters on their behalf. Jackie Loos presents us with a series of portraits and descriptions of incidents gleaned from these primary and secondary archival sources.

Most of these sketches were originally published as weekly columns in the 'Cape Argus'.
 

Marcus (J.) et. al. (eds.) VISIONS OF BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, , 231 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R185
  Foreword by Cyril Ramaphosa. Introduction by political commentator and scholar, Xolela Mangcu. Conclusion by Gill Marcus, former cabinet minister and former Reserve Bank deputy governor, business analyst Khehla Shubane, and former political editor and researcher Adrian Hadland.

Contents include "The Constitutional Principles Underpinning Black Economic Empowerment" by Albie Sachs,
"Economic Empowerment in the Eastern Cape" by Jeff Peires,
"History and Structure of the South African Economy" by Duncan Innes,
"The Ethos of Black Economic Empowerment" by Blade Nzimande,
"Black Economic Empowerment: de-racialising the economy" by Saki Macozoma, and
"An Argument for Capital Concentration and Socially Responsible Investing" by Khehla Shubane.
 

McKinnon (J.) A TAPESTRY OF LIVES, Cape women of the 17th century, 126 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2004.

  R135
  June McKinnon profiles more than 40 women and girls: Khoekhoe and Bushmen (San) women, wives of Dutch governors, slave women, peasant farmers' wives, French Huguenot women, inn-keepers and prostitutes.
 

Mountain (A.) AN UNSUNG HERITAGE, perspectives on slavery, 224 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2004.

  R165
  Alan Mountain outlines the nature of slavery and how it was organised at the Cape, the legacy of slavery and the contribution slaves made to the cultural heritage of South Africa and describes over 75 slave heritage sites in the Western Cape.
 

Nolen (S.) 28 STORIES OF AIDS IN AFRICA, , 408 pp., maps, illus., paperback, London, (2007) 2008.

  R170
  28 individual stories of people infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS, including Zackie Achmat and Nelson Mandela.

Journalist Stephanie Nolen has spent the last six years covering the story of the Aids pandemic in Africa, as well as reporting on the wars in Uganda and Sudan and the peace process in Sierra Leone. Her coverage of these stories for Canada's "Globe" and "Mail" newspaper won the National Paper Award for International Reporting in 2003 and 2004 and the Amnesty International Awards for Human Rights Reporting in 2003, 2004 and 2006. A Canadian citizen, she currently lives in Johannesburg.
 

Opland (J.) ed.& trans. THE NATION'S BOUNTY, the Xhosa poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho, 478 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R150
  Foreword by Isabel Hofmeyr.

A collection of nearly one hundred poems written from 1920 to 1929 by Nontsizi Mgqwetho in Johannesburg for the newspaper, 'Umteteli wa Bantu'. Jeff Opland, a leading scholar of Xhosa literature, located and collected these poems and translated them with the help of Phyllis Ntantala and Abner Nyamende.
 

Paice (E.) TIP AND RUN, the untold tragedy of the Great War in Africa, 488 pp., maps, illus., paperback, London, (2007) 2008.

  R210
  The story of the devastation caused by the East Africa campaign, 1914-1918, which began when Britain moved to eliminate German naval bases in Africa at the beginning of the First World War.

Historian Edward Paice, winner of the Leman prize and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, is the author of the biography "Lost Lion of Empire: the life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan".
 

Schoeman (K.) THE EARLY MISSION IN SOUTH AFRICA 1799-1819/ DIE VROEË SENDING IN SUID-AFRIKA 1799-1819, , 272 pp., map, hardback, d.w., Pretoria, 2005.

  R206
  Seventeen essays by Karel Schoeman which describe the life and work of various missionaries, mission assistants, artisans, catechists, lay helpers and "native agents" involved in the establishment of full-scale mission work in South Africa.

Text in English and Afrikaans.
 

Shell (R.) CHILDREN OF BONDAGE, the social history of the slave society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838, 501 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (1994) 1997.

  R160
  Historian Robert Shell sets out to understand the development of the unique multiracial slave society that evolved at the Cape from the level of the slave-owning household.

Robert C.-H. Shell is Extraordinary Professor of Historical Demography in the Statistics Department, University of the Western Cape.
 

Shell (R.) comp. FROM DIASPORA TO DIORAMA, the old slave lodge in Cape Town, CD-Rom + 29 pp. introductory booklet, Cape Town, .

  R165
  A CD-Rom that contains over 1,000 pages of interpretations, newly unearthed eyewitness accounts, three newly commissioned aquarelles by John English, sketches and photographs by model builder Peter Laponder and an appendix of 6,000 entries: slaves, political exiles, slave voyages to the lodge, slave cargo lists, lodge censuses, slave lodge deaths and lodge manumissions.

Contributors include Gabeba Abrahams-Willis, Margaret Cairns, Gerald Groenewald, Margaret Lenta, Jackie Loos, Robert Ross, Christopher Saunders, Robert Shell, Mansell Upham & Nigel Worden.
 

Skotnes (P.) CLAIM TO THE COUNTRY, the archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek, 388 pp., 4to., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg & Athens, Ohio, 2007.

  R350
  Includes the complete !xam and !kun texts given in the 1870s and 1880s by Ia!kunta, IIkabbo, =kasin, Dia!kwain, !kweiten ta IIken and Ihan=kass'o; also the boys Iuma, Tamme, Da and !nanni, along with their watercolours and drawings never before published in their entirety. Also includes selected photographs, documents, letters and notes, including contributions from Jemima Bleek and Dorothea Bleek, and contextualising essays by John Parkington, Nigel Penn, John Wright, Anthony Traill, Anne Solomon, Roger Hewitt, Stephen Watson, David Lewis-Williams, Pippa Skotnes and Eusatacia Riley. It comes with a DVD, "The Digital Bleek and Lloyd", which includes scans of every page of the 114 Lucy Lloyd Ixam notebooks, 13 Lloyd (mostly) !kun notebooks, 28 Wilhelm Bleek Ixam notebooks, Jemima Bleek's one Korana and !kun notebook and a searchable, annotated index for all the narratives and contributors.

Pippa Skotnes is Professor of Fine Art and Director of the Lucy Lloyd Archive, Resource and Exhibition Centre (Llarec), at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. She is the author of several books on the Ixam (Cape San or Bushmen), including "Sound from the Thinking Strings" (1991), "Miscast: negotiating the presence of the Bushmen" (1996) and "Heaven's Things" (1999).

This book is part of a Llarec project to digitise, research and publish the Bleek and Lloyd Archive.
 

St John (L.) RAINBOW'S END, a memoir of childhood, war & an African farm, 277 pp., maps, paperback, London, (2007) 2008.

  R130
  Journalist and author Lauren St John was born in Kadoma, Zimbabwe (formerly Gatooma) in 1966. She spetn her childood at Rainbow's End, a farm on the banks of the Umfuli River, near Gadzema. After studying journalism in Harare she moved to London, where she lives.
 

van der Ross (R.E.) UP FROM SLAVERY, slaves at the Cape, their origins, treatment and contribution, 160 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2005.

  R160
  f slave descent himself, Dr van der Ross introduces the topic of slavery to the layperson, particularly those who are descended from slaves but have little knowledge of the institution or its effect on their lives.

Richard van der Ross was Principal of the University of the Western Cape from 1975 to 1986.
 

van Schalkwyk (W.) comp. ABERDEEN OF THE CAPE, a retreat of the future, 168 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R176
  Aberdeen is a small town between Beaufort West and Graaff-Reinet, in the Karoo.

Wendy van Schalkwyk covers Aberdeen's history (including the Anglo-Boer War), buildings, mohair and wool farms, personalities, cemeteries, tourist attractions and accomodation. She lives on a farm in the area and acts as a tour guide.