Browsing Category Language, Literary Studies & Essays

ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR SOUTH AFRICA,
1010 pp., hardback, Cape Town, 2011. R350
Based on the Kernerman semi-bilingual dictionaries, with a 62-page Afrikaans and English grammar supplement and a CD-ROM with pronunciation.

The dictionary consists of a basic English-English core of about 40 000 references. Afrikaans translations for each meaning help Afrikaans-speaking users to confirm understanding of the English information, whereas the English definition and example sentences help the English-speaking user to confirm the use of the Afrikaans translations.
Anders (P.) & Krouse (M.) eds. POSITIONS, contemporary artists in South Africa
288 pp., colour illus., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Johannesburg, 2010. R280
First published in Germany (in German) in 2010.

A collection of interviews with and essays on some of South Africa's most prominent artists, writers, choreographers, photographers and musicians.

Contributions include:
"Chimurenga: communal yard for sick heads" by Ashraf Jamal,
"Paul Grootboom and the quest to reroute South African theatre" by Kwanele Sosibo,
"Living Memory; GALA-Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action" by Shaun de Waal,
"Celebrations of the spirit of tragedy: the theatre of Brett Bailey" by Anton Kruger,
"History, Memory, Tourism and Curatorial Mediations: the Hector Peterson Museum and the representation of the story of the June 16 1976 uprisings" by Ali Khangela Hlongwane

"Positions" is part of an international book series initiated by the Akademie der Künste and the Goethe-Institut.

Peter Anders is currently Country Director of the Goethe-Institut in China.
Matthew Krouse is the arts editor of the Mail & Guardian newspaper.
Andersson (M.) INTERTEXTUALITY, VIOLENCE AND MEMORY IN YIZO YIZO, youth TV drama
256 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2010. R250
Muff Andersson analyses Yizo Yizo, an award-winning youth drama series which was shown on SABC 1 between 1999 and 2004, by examining how the producers understood and worked on the project, the text itself, and the way audiences responded to the texts.
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.
Attwell (D.) & Attridge (D.) eds. THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE,
877 pp., paperback, N ew York, 2012. R390
A chronological history of South African literature in the country's eleven official languages, and more minor ones, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including Elleke Boehmer, Stephen Clingman, Carli Coetzee, Dorothy Driver, Ian Glenn, Ntongela Masilela, Michael Green, Craig MacKenzie, Bhekizizwe Peterson, and Hein Willemse.

David Attwell and Derek Attridge are Professors of English at the University of York.
Baines (G.) & Vale (P.) eds. BEYOND THE BORDER WAR, new perspectives on southern Africa's late-Cold War conflicts
342 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2008. R288
"This volume offers new perspectives on the Border War through the paradigms of diplomatic and military history, cultural and literary studies, as well as victimology".

Contributions include "The Cold War and South Africa: repetitions and revisions on a prolegomenon" by Peter Vale,
"The Construction and Subversion of Gender Stereotypes in Popular Cultural Representations of the Border War" by Michael Drewett,
"Writing from Within: representations of the Border War in South African literature" by Henriette Roos,
"Remaking Our Histories: the liberation war in post-colonial Namibian writings" by Keike Becker,
"'Oh Shucks, Here Comes UNTAG!': peace-keeping as adventure in Namibia" by Robert Gordon, and
"South Africa's Role in Namibia/Angola: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Account" by Christopher Saunders.

Gary Baines is an Associate Professor in the History Department and Peter Vale is the first Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics, both at Rhodes University.
Barber (K.) ed. AFRICA'S HIDDEN HISTORIES, everyday literacy and making the self
451 pp., illus., paperback, Bloomington, 2006. R359
Articles include "Ekukhanyeni Letter-Writers: a historical inquiry into epistolary network(s) and political imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa" by Vukile Khumalo,
"Reasons for Writing" African working-class letter-writing in early-twentieth-century South Africa" by Keith Breckenridge,
"'The Bantu World' and the World of the Book: reading, writing, and 'enlightenment'" by Bhekizizwe Peterson and
"Reading Debating/ Debating Reading: the case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or why Mandela quotes Shakespeare" by Isabel Hofmeyr.
Barnard (R.) APARTHEID AND BEYOND, South African writers and the politics of place
221 pp., hardback, d.w., New York, 2007. R350
Rita Barnard's study of South African literary culture in which she examines the writings of J.M.Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Miriam Tlali, Sindiwe Magona, Fatima Dike and Zakes Mda, focusing on the relationship between place, subjectivity and literary form in their work.

Rita Barnard is Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Pennsylvania.
Bell (D.) & Jacobs (J.U.) eds. WAYS OF WRITING, critical essays on Zakes Mda
408 pp., colour illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2009. R300
A collection of essays devoted to a critical appraisal of the award-winning South African novelist and playwright, Zakes Mda.

Contributions include "A Theatre for Democracy" by David Bell,
"Mapping Memory, Healing the Land: 'The Bells of Amersfoort'" by Shane Graham,
"Chronicles of Belief and Unbelief: Zakes Mda and the question of magical realism in South African literature" by Christopher Warnes,
"Of Funeral Rites and Community Memory: ways of living in 'Ways of Dying'" by Rogier Courau and Sally-Anne Murray,
"Love and Wayward Women in 'Ways of Dying'" by Nokuthula Mazibuko,
"Invidious Interpreters: the post-colonial intellectual in 'The Heart of Redness'" by Mike Kissack and Michael Titlestad,
"Nongqawuse, National Time and 'female' Authorship in 'The Heart of Redness'" by Meg Samuelson, and
"Race. Satire and Post-colonial Possibilities: the collective voice in 'The Madonna of Excelsior'" by N.S.Zulu.

David Bell is a former head of Humanities at Mid-Sweden University College, Sweden.
J.U.Jacobs in Senior Professor of English and Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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.
Brahimi (D.) NADINE GORDIMER, weaving together fiction, women and politics
178 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2012. R235
Originally published by IFAS/ Editions Karthala as "Nadine Gordimer: la femme, la politique at le roman". Translated from the French by Vanessa Everson and Carl Shapiro.

French scholar Denise Brahimi traces the evolution of Nadine Gordimer's fiction, and the way in which her novels are characterised by her awareness of history.
Breytenbach (B.) NOTES FROM THE MIDDLE WORLD,
214 pp., paperback, Chicago, 2009. R185
A collection of essays in which Breyten Breytenbach "takes readers on a journey through the 'Middle World', an imagined space beyond borders and exile, toward an embracing vision of justice for the 'un'citizens' post-modernity has dispossessed." from the back cover

Painter, poet, activist and writer, Breyten Breytenbach is a Global Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at New York University.
Breytenbach (B.) INTIMATE STRANGER, a writing book
248 pp., paperback, New York, 2009. R170
Breyten Breytenbach's reflections on reading and writing, addressed to a young writer.

Poet, novelist, essayist, activist and visual artist Breyten Breytenbach is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at New York University. In 1994 he received the Alan Paton Award for "Return to Paradise". He won the Hertzog Prize for Poetry for "Papierblom" in 1999, and again in 2008 for "Die Windvanger", for which he also received the University of Johannesburg Prize.
Brink (A.P.) HERINNERINGE AAN PARYS, 'n keur
183 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2012. R185
A selection of sketches and stories about life in Paris from André Brink's first two books on Paris: "Pot- Pourri" (1962) and "Parys-Parys" (1969). André Brink lived in Paris in the 1960s.
Brown (D.) TO SPEAK OF THIS LAND, identity and belonging in South Africa and beyond
214 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006. R170
Through a series of case studies, which cover Bushman storytelling, rock painting, African-Christian identity and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Mazisi Kunene's "Emperor Shaka the Great", Ronnie Govender's Cato Manor stories, Douglas Livingstone's poetry and the rap music of Prohpets of the City, Duncan Brown explores how people have, historically and in the present, used different forms to express a sense of what it means to live in a particular place.

Foreword, "From //Kabbo to Zapiro", by Antjie Krog.

Duncan Grant is the Deputy Head of the School of Literary Studies, Media and Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His previous books include "Voicing the Text: South African oral poetry and performance", available @ R210.
Burger (W.) ed. DIE OOP GESPREK, N.P.van Wyk Louw-gedenklesings
485 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2006. R155
A collection of the N.P.van Wyk Louw Memorial Lectures presented at the Univerity of Johannesburg (formerly Rand Afrikaans University) between 1982 and 2005. This is a companion volume to "Oopgelate Kring" (1982), which published the first ten lectures. The Van Wyk Louw Memorial Lecture has been presented annually since 1971.

Text in Afrikaans.

Includes lectures by P.G.du Plessis, Elize Botha, Beyers Naudé, Hermann Giliomee, André Brink and Antjie Krog, amongst others.
Caminero-Santangelo (B.) & Myers (G.) eds. ENVIRONMENT AT THE MARGINS, literary and environmental studies in Africa
295 pp., paperback, Athens, 2011. R340
A collection of essays that analyse writings by African colonial administrators and literary authors, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers.

Contributions include:
"'A Beautiful Country Badly Disfigured': enframing and reframing Eric Dutton's 'The Basuto of Basutoland'" by Garth Myers
"'Hunter of Elephants, Take Your Bow!' A historical analysis of nonfiction writing about elephant hunting in southern Africa" by Jane Carruthers
"Waste and Postcolonial History: an ecocritical reading of J.M.Coetzee's 'Age of Iron'" by Anthony Vital
"Never a Final Solution: Nadine Gordimer and the environmental unconscious" by Byron Caminero-Santangelo
"Inventing Tradition and Colonizing the Plants: Ngugi was Thiong'o's 'Petals of Blood' amd Zakes Mda's 'The Heart of Redness'" by Laura Wright.

"Ecocritical studies have long neglected the postcolonial regions of the world, so its refreshing and timely to see a collection of essays focused entirely on Africa. This collection is the first of its kind and as such is positioned to make a vital intervention in postcolonial, ecocritical, and African studies." Elizabeth DeLoughrey, co-editor of "Postcolonial Ecologies: literatures of the environment"

Byron Caminero-Santangelo is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas.
Garth Myers is Paul E.Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban and International Studies in the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Department of International Studies at Trnity College, Hartford.
Chapman (M.) ART TALK, POLITICS TALK,
187 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006. R180
A collection of essays that offer "perspectives on a single endeavour: how to talk about art in a politically demanding milieu." Michael Chapman

Includes essays on the work of Can Themba, Ruth Miller, Nelson Mandela, Roy Campbell, Nadine Gordimer, J.M.Coetzee and Herman Charles Bosman.

Michael Chapman is Professor of English and Head of the School of Literary Studies, Media and Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Coetzee (J.M.) INNER WORKINGS, literary essays 2000 - 2005
304 pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (2007) 2008. R145
Introduction by Derek Attridge.

Essays include "Nadine Gordimer", "V.S.Naipaul, 'Half a Life'", "Walt Whitman", Saul Bellow, the early novels", "William Faulkner and his biographers, and many more.

Most of these essays first appeared, in earlier form, in the New York Review of Books.
Coetzee (J.M.) WHITE WRITING, on the culture of letters in South Africa
194 pp., paperback, Reprint, Johannesburg, (1988) 2007. R155
J.M.Coetzee's first volume of criticism, in which "he reads a range of texts, in various genres, which represent the endeavours of white writers to come to terms with the South African landscape and their tenuous place in it". The seven essays examine writing by William Burchell, Thomas Pringle, W.E.G.Louw, W.C.Scully, Roy Campbell, C.W.van den Heever, Olive Schreiner, Pauline Smith, Alan Paton, C.H.Kühn (Mikro), Sarah Gertrude Millin, Guy Butler, Sydney Clouts, and others.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.

Coetzee (J.M.) LE ORIGINI IDEOLOGICHE DELL'APARTHEID, emergere dalla censura
61 pp., paperback, Verona, 1999. R195
An Italian translation of J.M.Coetzee's essay, "The Intellectual Origins of Apartheid, emerging from censorship".

Translation by Angela Righetti.
Coetzee (J.M.) et. al. NOBEL LECTURES, 20 years of the Nobel Prize for Literature lectures
325 pp., hardback, d.w., Expanded Edition, Cambridge, (2006) 2007. R175
Introduction by John Sutherland.

Includes the lectures, "He and His Man" by J.M.Coetzee (2003), "Writing and Being" by Nadine Gordimer (1991) and "This Past Must Address Its Present" by Wole Soyinka (1986).
Cooper (B.) A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN WRITERS, migration, material culture & language
182 pp., paperback, Woodbridge & Pitermaritzburg, 2008. R170
"Brenda Cooper tracks the journeys undertaken by a new generation of African writers, their protagonists and the solid objects that populate their fiction, to depict the material realities of their multiple worlds and languages".

Includes chapters on Biyi Bandele's "The Street", Leila Aboulela's "The Translator" and "Coloured Lights", Jamal Mahoub's "The Carrier", Moses Isegawa's "Abyssinian Chronicles" and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus" and "Half of a Yellow Sun".

Brenda Cooper is Director of the Centre for African Studies and a professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Cape Town.
Cornwell (G.), Klopper (D.) & MacKenzie (C.) THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SINCE 1945,
251 pp., hardback, d.w., New York, 2010. R395
An A to Z of South African authors and genres, with a 35 pp. introduction. Also includes an appendix which lists essential authors published before 1945.

Gareth Cornwall and Dirk Klopper are professors of English at Rhodes University.
Craig MacKenzie is
Coullie (J.) et. al. (eds.) SELVES IN QUESTION, interviews on southern African auto/biography
487 pp., paperback, Honolulu, 2006. R230
Includes "I Speak Their Wordless Woe", Dennis Brutus interviewed by Simon Lewis;
"All Autobiography is 'Autre'-biography", J.M.Coetzee interviewed by David Atwell;
"We Would Write Very Dull Books If We Just Wrote about Ourselves", Sindiwe Magona interviewed by Stephan Meyer;
"Metaphors of Self", Es'kia Mphahlele interviewed by N.Chabani Manganyi; "Writing Autobiography and Writing Fiction", Doris Lessing interviewed by M.J.Daymond;
"Reflections in Identity", Breyten Breytenbach interviewed by Marilet Sienaert;
"'Every Secret Thing' as Family Memoir", Gillian Slovo interviewed by Margaretta Jolly;
"Reflections in a Cracked Mirror"' Pieter-Dirk Uys interviewed by Mervyn McMurty;
"Philosophical Reflections on Chronicles of Conversion", Wilhelm Verwoerd interviewed by Stephan Meyer;
"Group Portrait: self, family and nation on exhibit", Paul Faber, Rayda Jacobs and David Goldblatt interviewed by Stephan Meyer, and much more.
Currey (J.) AFRICA WRITES BACK, the African Writers Series and the launch of African literature
318 pp., illus., paperback, Oxford, etc., 2008. R190
Publisher James Currey's history of the African Writers Series, started in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as its founding editor. Currey focuses on eight writers: Chinue Achebe, Ngugi, Nuruddin Farah, Alex la Guma, Dennis Brutus, Bessie Head, Mazisi Kunene and Damdudzo Marechera, using the publishing archives held at the University of Reading. Many other writers are discussed: Modikwe Dikobe, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Pepetela, Jack Mapanjie, Charles Mungoshi and Ali Mazrui, to name but a few. The book is well illustrated with George Hallett's photographs of authors and book covers (including one of the young Pallo Jordan for the cover of John Munonye's "A Dancer of Fortune").
Davids (A.) THE AFRIKAANS OF THE CAPE MUSLIMS, from 1815 to 1915
318 pp., map, paperback, Pretoria, 2011. R220
Edited by Hein Willemse and Suleman E.Dangor.

Achmat Davids examines the Arabic-Afrikaans literary tradition of the Cape Muslim community and traces the emergence of Afrikaans "a'jami" texts, i.e. Afrikaans texts in Arabic script distributed or published at the Cape of Good Hope from early nineteeth century to 1915.

Achmat Davids (1939-1998) published extensively on the heritage, culture and language of the Muslim community of Cape Town. His publications include "Mosques of the Bo-Kaap" (1980), "The History of the Tana Baru" (1985) and "Pages from Cape Muslim History" (1994).
de Vries (F.) THE FRED DE VRIES INTERVIEWS, from Abdullah to Zille
325 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R180
Journalist and author Fred de Vries's interviews with musicians Abdullah Ebrahim, Chris Chameleon, Bok van Blerk, Fokofpolisiekar, Toast Coetzer and Steve Hofmeyr, poets Gabeba Baderoon, Ronalda Kamfer, Danie Marais and Yabadaka Shamah, authors Rain Malan, Marlene van Niekerk, Ingrid Winterbach, Kleinboer and Ivan Vladislavic, Cape Town mayor Hellen Zille and businessman Eric Mafuna, amongst others.
Delmas (A.) & Penn (N.) eds. WRITTEN CULTURE IN A COLONIAL CONTEXT, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900
364 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R265
A collection of essays that focuses on writing during the colonial period in Africa and the Americas.

Contributions include:
"From Travelling to History: an outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th century" by Adrien Delmas,
"Written Culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'Full Description'" by Nigel Penn,
"Nothing New Under the Sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1880-1910" by Peter Merrington,
"To My Dear Minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th century Transvaal" by Lize Kriel,
"Literacy and Land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economies" by Mastin Prinsloo,
"On Not Spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century" by Gerald Groenewald.

Adrien Delmas teaches history at Sciences-Po, Paris.
Nigel Penn is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is also the author of "Rogues, Rebels and Runaways" (1999) and "The Forgotten Frontier" (2006).
Eilersen (G.S.) BESSIE HEAD: THUNDER BEHIND HER EARS, her life and writing
374 pp., paperbackillus., paperback, Revised Edition, 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.
Essa (A.) ZUMA'S BASTARD, encounters with a desktop terrorist
173 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R145
A collection of writings adapted from and inspired by the Thought Leader blog, Accidental Academic, created by journalist, columnist and lecturer Azad Essa. The blog won the Best Political Blog at the 2009 SA Blog Awards.

Foreword by Ferial Haffajee.

"At once 'tjatjarag' and lyrical, the digitally compressed and accelerated voice of a South Africa that no media tribunal could ever silence." Nic Dawes, editor-in-chief, Mail & Guardian newspaper

"Azad is a journalist for the 21st century. He is at the beginning of a professional life of activism, action and a whole lot of fun. I have no doubt that this will be the first book of many. I am honoured to be associated with it." Ferial Haffajee

Azad Essa is currently working for the Al Jazeera Network in Doha, Qatar.
Ferreira (O.J.O.) ADAMASTOR, Spirit of the Cape of Storms/ Espírito do Cabo das Tormentas/ Gees van die Stormkaap
98 pp., illus., paperback, Gordon's Bay, 2008. R265
Historian O.J.O Ferreira's article on the Adamastor myth, "Adamastor, gees van die Stormkaap", was first published in Afrikaans in 1995.
This revised edition is edited by Schalk le Roux, translated into English by Roger C.Fisher and translated into Portuguese by Edna Peres, Giulia Picard-Boswel and Christina E.F.von Reiche.
Also includes D.P.M.Botes' translation into Afrikaans verse of the episode related to Adamastor in Portuguese poet Luís Vaz de Camoen's "Os Lusíadas".

Text in English, Afrikaans and Portuguese.
Field (R.) ALEX LA GUMA, a literary & political biography
258 pp., illus., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Johannesburg, 2010. R220
In his book on novelist and political activist Alex la Guma (1925-85) Roger Field combines biography with literary and political analyses to offer fresh insights into la Guma's major texts.

This book was first published in the U.K. in 2010.

Alex la Guma
Fincham (G.) DANCE OF LIFE, the novels of Zakes Mda in post-apartheid South Africa
182 pp., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R250
Gail Fincham discusses Zakes Mda's fiction, focusing especially on the performative dimension of his novels.

"Focusing on the narrative strategies of Mda, Fincham proffers an original reading of his texts from 1995 which connects the visual, the performative and history." Prof. Wendy Woodward, University of the Western Cape

"There is an energy and creativity in the writing that answers to Mda's...One looks forward to seeing more work of this kind, where reader and text are working together in a productive dialogue." David Attwell, University of York

Gail Fincham teaches in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town.
Foley (A.) THE IMAGINATION OF FREEDOM, critical texts and times in contemporary liberalism
315 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R220
Andrew Foley explores the work of writers who have responded from a liberal viewpoint when the freedom of the individual has been threatened by political developments. He discusses the work of Alan Paton, Chinua Achebe, Athol Fugard, Ken Kesey, Seamus Heaney, Fay Weldon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ian McEwan and others, in order to clarify their political vision, assess their significance and develop a case for liberalism as a political philosophy.

Andrew Foley is Professor and Head of the Department of English in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Frenkel (R.) RECONSIDERATIONS, South African Indian fiction and the making of race in postcolonial culture
165 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2010. R200
Ronit Frenkel examines how contemporary South African Indian fiction offers new ways of thinking about South African culture, and discusses the writings of Imraan Coovadia, Achmat Dangor, Farida Karodia, Beverley Naidoo, Agnes Sam, Shamin Sarif, Ishtiyaq Shukri and Jayapraga Reddy.
Gaonkar (D.P.) & Lee (B.) eds. PUBLIC CULTURE, volume 14, number 1, winter 2002: PUBLIC CULTURE
279 pp., illus., paperback, Society for Transnational Cultural Studies, Duke U, 2002. R225
Public Culture is a journal sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the University of Chicago and the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies, Duke University. It is published three times a year.

Contributions include "African Modes of Self-Writing" by Achille Mbembe.
Gaylard (G.) ed. MARGINAL SPACES, reading Ivan Vladislavic
368 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R250
A collection of critical material on Ivan Vladislavic's fiction, ranging from academic articles to reviews and interviews.

Contributions include:
"An Extraordinary Volume Romps in My Head", Tony Morphet on "Missing Persons"
"'I Take Up My Spade and Dig': Verwoerd, Tsafendas and the position of the writer in the early fiction of Ivan Vladislavic" by Christopher Thurman
"Postmodern Castle in the Air", Ivor Powell on "The Folly"
"Citadel and Web", Ingrid de Kock on "The Folly"
"Fossicking in the House of Love: apartheid masculinity in 'The Folly'" by Gerald Gaylard
"Setting, Intertextuality and the Resurrection of the Postcolonial Author in 'Kidnapped'" by Zoë Wicomb
"Review of 'The Restless Supermarket'" by Lionel Abrahams
"'Minor Disorders': Ivan Vladislavic and the dissolution of South African English" by Stefan Helgesson
"Layers of Permanence: towards a spatial-materialist reading of Ivan Vladislavic's 'The Exploded View'" by Shane Graham
"On Ivan Vladislavic on Willem Boshoff on Conceptual Art" by Sally-Ann Murray
"Dismantling the Architecture of Apartheid: Vladislavic's private poetics in 'Portrait with Keys'" by Jane Poyner
"The Invisible City: surface and underneath in 'Portrait with Keys'" by Sarah Nuttall.

Gerald Gaylard is Associate Professor and previous Head of the English Department at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of "After Colonialism: African postmodernism and magical realism".
Gordimer (N.) TELLING TIMES, writing and living, 1954-2008
740 pp., hardback, d.w., London, 2010. R295
A collection of Nadine Gordimer's non-fiction.

Essays include "A South African Childhood: allusions to a landscape" (1954),
"Why Did Bram Fischer Choose Jail?" (1966),
"The New Black Poets" (1973),
"What Being a South African Means to Me: address at the University of Cape Town" (1977),
"The Idea of Gardening: J.M.Coetzee's 'The Life and Times of Michael K'" (1984),
"New Notes from Underground: Breyten Breytenbach's 'Mouroir'" (1984),
"Sorting the Images from the Man: Nelson Mandela" (1990),
"Rising to the Ballot" (1994),
"When Art Meets Politics" (1999),
"Africa's Plague, and Everyone's" (2000),
"Fear Eats the Soul" (2003) and,
"Desmond Tutu As I Know Him" (2006).
Goudvis (B.) SOUTH AFRICAN ODYSSEY, the autobiography of Bertha Goudvis
218 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R195
Edited by Marcia Leveson.

Bertha Goudvis (née Cinamon) was born in England in 1876 and came with her family to South Africa at the age of five. She spent her youth trekking by ox-wagon from one small mining town to another. She worked as a correspondent for The Natal Mercury, as a journalist for Johannesburg's The Star, published a novel, "Little Eden" (1949) and short stories in "The Mistress of Mooiplaas and Other Stories" (1956). She also wrote a libretto for a musical and several plays. She died in 1966.
Govinden (D.) "SISTER OUTSIDERS", the representation of identity and difference in selected writings by South African Indian women
385 pp., paperback, Pretoria & Leiden, 2008. R217
Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden discusses Ansuyah Singh's "Behold the Earth Mourns", Zuleikha M.Mayat's "A Treasure Trove of Memories", Jayapraga Reddy's "The Unbending Reed" and "On the Fringe of Dreamtime and Other Stories", Anges Sam's "Jesus is Indian and Other Stories", Dr Goonam's "Coolie Doctor", as well as the writings of Phyllis Naidoo, Fatima Meer and Farida Karodia.
Gqola (P.D.) WHAT IS SLAVERY TO ME?, postcolonial/ slave memory in post-apartheid South Africa
247 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R220
Pumla Gqola "examines how the South African imagination conceives of, constructs and interprets itself at a time of transition, and how slavery is evoked and remembered as part of negotiating current ways of being." from the introduction

"'What is Slavery to Me?' is a landmark book on the role of slavery in shaping contemporary South Africa. Drawing on historical scholarship as well as studies of slavery worldwide, Gqola delivers a brilliant new piece of literary and cultural analysis" Gabeba Baderoon

Pumla Dineo Gqola is Associate Professor of Literary, Media and Gender Studies at the School of Literature and Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand.
Graham (S.) SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE AFTER THE TRUTH COMMISSION , mapping loss
235 pp., illus., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Pietermaritzburg, 2011. R171
First published in the U.K. in 2009.

Shane Graham investigates how post-apartheid theatre-makers and writers of fiction, poetry, and memoir have used their art to come to terms with South Africa's violent past and rapidly changing present.

Writers discussed include Antjie Krog, Ingrid de Kock, Jane Taylor, Achmat Dangor, Ivan Vladislavíc, K.Sello Duiker, Aziz Hassim, Zoë Wicomb, Zakes Mda, Anne Landsman, Phaswane Mpe and Sindiwe Magona.

"Graham's astute and lucid analyses show how the inward turn of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has turned outward, leaving its mark on the public and social spaces of a fledgling and still struggling democracy." David Attwell, Professor and Head of English, University of York

Shane Graham is an assistant professor of English at Utah State University.
Gray (S.) ed. REMEMBERING BOSMAN, Herman Charles recollected, tributes, memoirs, sketches, interviews
189 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2009. R230
This collection includes tributes written to celebrate the memory of Herman Charles Bosman by colleagues on his death, verses written in his honour during his lifetime and after, articles by other friends and acquaintances, and interviews with witnesses to his life.

Contents include "A Portrait from Memory" by George Howard,
"My Cousin Herman" by Zita Grové,
"Mr Bosman: a protégé's memoir" by Lionel Abrahams,
"Last Chapters" by Bosman's wife Helena Lake,
"Laughing Cavalier" by Edgar Bernstein,
""A Personal Tribute" by Leon Feldberg,
"Schooldays" by Eddie Roux", and
"The Poet Prisoner" by Lago Clifford.
Gupta (P.), Hofmeyr (I.) & Pearson (M.) eds. EYES ACROSS THE WATER, navigating the Indian Ocean
394 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2010. R228
Foreword by Amitav Ghosh.

A collection of papers on the Indian Ocean world, re-emerging as a major arena in world politics in the twenty-first century. These papers were first presented at a colloquium hosted by the South Africa/ India Research Thrust at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007. Two additional essays were solicited after the conference.

Contributions include "Africa as a Fault Line in the Indian Ocean" by Isabel Hofmeyr,
"The Unwieldy Fetish: desire and disavowal of Indianness in South Africa" by Thomas Blom Hansen,
"The South African Indian Film Industry: new directions in Indian commercial and disporic cinema" by Stefanie Lotter,
"'African Appendix': distortion, forgery and superfluity on a southern littoral" by Ashraf Jamal,
"Navigating Difference: gender, miscegenation and Indian domestic space in twentieth-century Durban" by Jon Soske, and
"Transnational Spaces, Islam and the Interaction of Indian and African Identity Strategies in South African During and After Apartheid" by Preben Kaarsholm.

Pamila Gupta is a researcher at WISER, the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Isable Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature and Acting Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Michael Pearson is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and Adjunct Professor of Humanities at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Haacke (W.H.G.) THE TONOLOGY OF KHOEKHOE (NAMA/ DAMARA),
233 pp., paperback, Cologne, 1999. R230
A tonological analysis of the Khoekhoe language.
Head (D.) THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO J.M.COETZEE,
113 pp., paperback, Cambridge, 2009. R200
A survey of J.M.Coetzee's fiction up to "Diary of a Bad Year" (2007).

Dominic Head is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham.
Hiles (L.) & Guzana (Z.) eds. OXFORD FIRST BILINGUAL DICTIONARY, isiXhosa + English
64 pp., 4to., colour illus., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2007) 2009. R72
Suitable for learners of English and isiXhosa in Grade 2 and upwards.
Hirson (D.) WHITE SCARS, on reading and rites of passage
197 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R155
Denis Hirson discusses four books which influenced him at important times in his life: "Shooting at Sharpville" by Ambrose Reeves, "Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet" by Breyten Breytenbach, "In a Marine Light" by Raymond Carver and "Je me souviens" by George Perec.

Hirson is the author if "The House Next Door to Africa", "I Rembember King Kong (The Boxer)" and "We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way".
Hirson (D.) WORLDS IN ONE COUNTRY, a brief survey of South African writing - nineteenth century to 1994
148 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R120
A brief introduction to the history of South African writing which takes into account prose, poetry and theatre, in English, Afrikaans and several African languages. Intended for students and the general public.

Born and raised in South Africa, Denis Hirson now lives in France and teaches at the Ecole Polytechnique outside Paris. He is the editor of two anthologies, "The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories" (with Martin Trump), and "The Lava of this Land, South African poetry 1960-1996", and the author of the novel "The Dancing and the Death on Lemon Street".
Holland (H.) & Roberts (A.) eds. FROM JO'BURG TO JOZI, stories about Africa's infamous city
293 pp., paperback, Reprint, Johannesburg, (2000) 2010. R140
Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts invited journalists and writers - South Africans and foreigners who have lived in Johannesburg - to write about the city.

"Paul Kruger called the place Sodom and Gomorrah and everyone who didn't live there thought he was putting it mildly. They still do." Christopher Hope

"If it is true, as Buddhist sages maintain, that materialism coarsens the spirit and that life itself is an illusion, Jo'butg is a fine place to pursue enlightenment. Theft is so common that it's hardly worth mentioning. Everyone knows someone who was murdered. You either allow the danger to poison your psyche and deaden your soul, or you learn to be brave, and laugh at the prospect of your own annihilation. It's not necessarily akin to wisdom, but it's a fine quality anyway. I love Jo'burgers. They're loud and vulgar, and the worst of them will shoot you or embezzle your trust fund if you don't watch your back, but they all have something the Boer poet Breytenbach called 'heartspace'. It comes from living on adrenalin, which is, of course, the intoxicant that keeps us here, or draws us back if we try to escape...Foreigners think we're nuts, coming back to a doomed city on a damned continent, but there's something you don't understand: it's boring where you are. Yo'll probably live longer than us and acquire more possessions, but there's no ferment in your societies, no excitement, no edge. Your newspapers are bland and your politics are inconsequential, so many storms in teacups. You want crises? We've got real ones - Aids, forty percent umemployment, the highest rape and murder rates on the planet and a government that wants to put blacks in our national rugby team, just on principle..." Rian Malan

Contributors include Hilda Bernstein, Shaun de Waal, Max du Preez, Mark Gevisser, Jodie Ginsberg, Christopher Hope, Barbara Ludman, Kgafela oa Magogodi, Arthur Maimane, Rian Malan, John Matshikiza, Zakes Mda, Gcina Mhlophe, Anthony Sampson, Wally Serote, Veronique Tadjo, Jann Turner, Marlene van Niekerk and Ivan Vladislavic.
Irele (F.A.) ed. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE AFRICAN NOVEL,
282 pp., paperback, Cambridge, 2009. R290
A collection of essays on fiction in the European languages and Arabic from North Africa and African south of the Sahara.

Contributions include "The Afrikaans Novel" by Christopher Warnes,
"Chinua Achebe and the African Novel" by Dan Izevbaye,
"Protest and Resistance" by Barbara Harlow,
"The African Historical Novel" by M.Keith Booker,
"Magical Realism and the African Novel" by Ato Quayson, and
"The African Novel and the Feminine Condition" by Nana Wilson-Tagoe.

F.Abiola Irele is Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Jackson (S.), Demissie (F.) & Goodwin (M.) eds. IMAGINING, WRITING, (RE)READING THE BLACK BODY,
188 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2009. R263
A collection of essays that explore how the Black body "has been historically produced and constructed as an object of desire, menace, literary trope and political embodiment of the 'Other'". The book grew out of an international conference, "The Black Body: imagining, writing, and re(reading)", held at DePaul University in 2004.

Contributions include "Displaying Africans at l'Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris, 1931" by Fassil Demissie,
"Unshackling Black Women's Bodies" by Dorothy E.Roberts,
"Blackwomen's Bodies as Battlegrounds in Black Consciousness Literature: wayward sex and (interracial) rape as tropes in Staffrider, 1978-1982" by Pumla Dineo Gqola, and
"Black Bodies and the Representation of Blackness in Imagined Futures" by Sandra Jackson.
Jaffer (Z.) NOT BY DREAD ALONE, thoughts about our journalism
60 pp., paperback, , 2011. R70
An essay on the state of journalism in South Africa.


Journalist and author Zubeida Jaffer currently works as Communications Specialist for the Minister of Economic Development, Mr Ebrahim Patel. She is also the author of the book, "Love in the Time of Treason".
Jenkins (E.) FALLING INTO PLACE, the story of modern South African place names
220 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R150
Elwyn Jenkins provides detailed accounts of how towns, cities, suburbs, provinces and airports have been named, and sometimes renamed, over the last 30 years.

Jenkins is Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa and President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. He was appointed to the National Place Names Committee in 1987, served on the committe that drafted the South African Geographical Names Council Act, and was appointed by the Minister to the new Council in 1999, serving until 2003.
Jenkins (E.) SEEDLINGS, English children's reading & writers in South Africa
235 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2012. R239
Elwyn Jenkins looks at a selection of South African children's books in English. Books discussed include "The Chronicles of Peach Grove Farm" by Nellie Fischer, "Platkops Children" by Pauline Smith, "Little Veld Folk" by Cecil Shirley, "The Suitcase Stories, refugee children reclaim their identities" by Glynis Clacherty, and various collections of San tales.

Elwyn Jenkins is Professor Emeritus and Professor Extraordinary in the Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA). His other books include "Children of the Sun, selected writers and themes in South African children's literature", "South Africa in English-language Children's Literature, 1814-1912" and "National Character in South African English Children's Literature".
Johnson (D.) IMAGINING THE CAPE COLONY, history, literature, and the South African nation
222 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2012. R250
David Johnson relates the literatures and histories of the Cape to postcolonial debates about nationalism.

"This is an outstandingly insightful and innovative study. David Johnson single-handedly opens up new research terrains by challenging current orthodoxies about literary and historical representation and he brings the early Cape Colony into the centre of contemporary debates about identity, power and the pervasive presence of inequality in post-apartheid South Africa." Nigel Worden, King George V Professor of History, University of Cape Town

"The excitement of reading this book is in its delivering more than the title indicates. Grounded in meticulous historical research, Johnson's work engages with contemporary debates about the nation, offering the innovative argument that colonial forms of nationhood and nationalism, resisted/ subverted/ even ignored normative concepts developed in the northern hemisphere." Benita Parry, Emerita Professor, University of Warwick

David Johnson is senoir lecturer in English at The Open University. His other writings include the books "Shakespeare and South Africa" (1996) and "Jurisprudence: a South African perspective" (2001).
Jolly (R.) CULTURED VIOLENCE, narrative, social suffering, and engendering human rights in contemporary South Africa
184 pp., paperback, Liverpool & Pietermaritzburg, 2010. R235
Rosemary Jolly "explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent conflict. The books addresses key ethical issues, normally addressed from within the discourses of law, the social sciences, and health sciences, through narrative analysis. To make her argument, Rosemary Jolly draws from and juxtaposes narratives of profoundly different kinds: fictional narratives, such as the work of Nobel Laureate J.M.Coetzee; public testimony, from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and from Jacob Zuma's 2006 rape trial; and personal testimony, drawn from interviews undertaken by the author over the past ten years in South Africa." from the back cover

"Moving freely between testimony and fiction, social realities and their representations, Rosemary Jolly's admirable study engages unflinchingly with her subject, asking tough questions about the perpetuation of violence and the problem of complicity." Derek Attridge, University of York

Professor Rosemary Jolly holds appointments in the Department of English, Southern African Research Centre and Institute for Population and Public Health at Queen's University, Canada. Her previous books include "Colonization, Violence and Narration in White South African Writing" (1996), co-edited by Derek Attridge, and "Writing South Africa" (1997).
Joubert (E.) REISIGER,
488 pp., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2009. R300
The second volume of award-winning Afrikaans novelist Elsa Joubert's autobiography. The first volume, "'n Wonderlike Geweld" (2005), is also available @ R275

Elsa Joubert's first novel, "Ons wag op die Kaptein" (1963) won the Eugene Marais Prize. Her 1978 novel "Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena" was awarded the WA Hofmeyr Prize, the CNA Prize and the Louis Luyt Prize. In 1981 she was awarded the Winifred Holtby Prize by the British Royal Society of Literature, also becoming a member. Her novel, "Die reise van Isobelle" (1995) won the Hertzog Prize.

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Kalu (A.C.) ed. THE RIENNER ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN LITERATURE,
, Boulder, 2007. R595
This anthology, arranged chronologically and within historical periods, by region, includes stories from the southern African oral tradition and writing by Thomas Mofolo, Peter Abrahams, Es'kia Mphahlele, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Dambudzo Marechera, Gcina Mhlope, Dennis Brutus, Agostinho Neto, Chenjerai Hove, Njabulo Ndebele, Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, Lewis Nkosi, and many others.

Anthonia C.Kalu is Professor of Black Studies at the University of Northern Colorado.
Kapp (P.) DRAER VAN 'N DROOM, die geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns 1909-2009
484 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Hermanus, 2009. R248
A history of Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie van Wetenskap en Kuns (The South African Academy for Science and Arts), a cultural organisation founded in 1909 to further science, technology and the arts. This book is based on the Academy's extensive archive.

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Pieter Kapp was a professor of history at Rand Afrikaans University and the University of Stellenbosch. From 1999 to 2001 he was Chairman of the Academy.
Kleyn (L.) et. al. (eds.) POMP, 08
452 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2008. R180
An Afrikanns publication that celebrates literature, journalism, music, architecture, film, photography and art.

Articles include "Koos du Plessis, nagspel met woorde" by Andries Bezuidenhout,
"Elize Botha, 'n huldeblyk" by Joan Hambidge,
"Konkrete poësie", with poems by Jan du Plessis, Hennie Meyer and Adolph van Coller,
"Afrikaanse Stripkuns" by Daniel du Plessis,
"Woedend oor Boekontwerp in Suid-Afrika" by Daniël and Tienie du Plessis, and much more.

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La Vita (M.) GESPREKKE MET MERKWAARDIGE MENSE,
252 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R165
A collection of journalist Murray La Vita's conversations with South African writers, artists, musicians, chefs, and activists, including Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink, Joan Hambidge, Antjie Krog, Ingrid Winterbach, Deon Meyer, Pieter Dirk-Uys, Abdullah Ibrahim, David Kramer, Desmond Tutu, Rhoda Kadalie, Helen Suzman and Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert.

These interviews were originally published in "Die Burger", an Afrikaans newspaper published in Cape Town.

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Lazar (K.) HEMISPHERES, inside a stroke
85 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R145
A collection of essays on life after a stroke. Karen Lazar had a stroke in 2001, from which she has partially recovered. She lives in Johannesburg and is an English educator at the Wits School of Education.

"A filigree of finely-crafted pieces, 'Hemispheres' narrates the journey of recomposing life, joy and love from a body made alien through stroke. Wry, ironic, comic, joyous, desolate, celebratory, surreal, the mosaic of text reconfigures love from loss; each subtle fragment a tessera against time. A book of desolation and consolation. I will return to it often." Isabel Hofmeyr, Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand.

"A collection of rare/nuanced and tender insights, Lazar takes us into the gyre of re-orientation post-stroke, sharing what is lost and what is claimed when what you've always been and known changes. A book that pulses with quiet courage and celebrates it in others." Joanne Fedler, author of "Things Without a Name" amnd "When Hungry Eat".
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.
Leist (A.) & Singer (P.) eds. J.M.COETZEE AND ETHICS, philosophical perspectives on literature
400 pp., paperback, New York, 2010. R260
A collection of essays which explore J.M.Coetzee's approach to ethical theory and philosophy, especially his representation of the human-animal relationship.

Contributions include:
"Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa" by Adriaan van Heerden,
"Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: a strategy for reading 'Diary of a Bad Year'" by Jonathan Lear,
"Converging Convictions: Coetzee and his characters on animals" by Karen Dawn and Peter Singer,
"Writing the Lives of Animals" by Ido Geiger,
"Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's archaic postmodernism" by Anton Leist,
"Truth and Love Together at Last: style, form, and moral vision in 'Age of Iron'" by Samantha Vice,
"'The Lives of Animals' and the Form-Content Connection" by Jennifer Flynn.

"This collection takes stock of J.M.Coetzee's impact from a number of interesting angles, including animals, sexuality, race, and reason. The time is truly ripe for such a volume. Philosophers who are interested in Coetzee's work will find these essays useful for their own research, and readers of Coetzee who share an interest in philosophy will be able to further explore those interests." Matthew Calarco, California State University of Fullerton

Anton Leist is Professor of Philosophy at the Ethics-Centre of the University of Zurich.

Peter Singer is Ira DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne.
Lewis (D.) LIVING ON A HORIZON, Bessie Head and the politics of imagining
317 pp., paperback, Trenton, 2007. R265
Desiree Lewis draws on postcolonial and feminist theories to explore the fusion of styles, subjects and philosophical and literary influences evident in Bessie Head's writing.

Desiree Lewis teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies Programme at the University of the Western Cape.
Lindfors (B.) EARLY BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN WRITING IN ENGLISH,
256 pp., paperback, Trenton, 2011. R255
A collection of essays and interviews in which Bernth Lindfors examines early Black South African writing in English and in English translation, focusing primarily on literature produced in the first decade of the apartheid era. Includes essays on Thomas Mofolo, Peter Abrahams, Alex la Guma, Dennis Brutus, Ansuyah R.Singh and Mbongeni Ngema and interviews with Dennis Brutus, Esk'ia Mphahlele, Richard Rive and Njabulo Ndebele.

"Ever since the early days of African literary-historical writing, the name Bernth Lindfors has leant depth and direction to the developing field." Stephen Gray, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Johannesburg.

Bernth Linfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures at The University of Texas at Austin, and the author of numerous books on African literatures.


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.
MacKenzie (C.) & Sandham (T.) A BOSMAN COMPANION,
272 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R220
This book covers all aspects of Herman Charles Bosman's life and work in short alpabetically arranged entries and includes photographs, maps, illustrations from the magazines in which his stories appeared, a chronology, a classified contents list, a bibliography of Bosman's works, and colour reproductions of Bosman's paintings and drawings.

Craig MacKenzie is Professor of English at the University of Johannesburg and has edited ten volume of Bosman's works.
TV writer and playwright Tim Sandham has written and performed three plays which relate directly to Bosman.
Malan (R.) comp. A-Z OF AFRICAN WRITERS, a guide to modern African writing in English
305 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2009. R225
An introduction to African authors writing in English. Includes over 200 writers, offering a brief biography of each writer, a list of their books, short extracts from their writing, and sometimes critical comment.

Robin Malan is the complier of various well-known anthologies of poems, plays and short stories and is the editor of "English Alive", the annual anthology of writing in high schools in southern Africa. In 2001 he was awarded the Molteno Medal for Lifetime Service to Literature.
Manganyi (C.) & Atwell (D.) eds. BURY ME AT THE MARKETPLACE, Es'kia Mphahlele and company, letters 1943-2006
520 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R220
An expanded collection of letters wirtten by Esk'ia Mphahlele and augmented with letters received by Mphahlele from a variety of correspondents, among them Langston Hughes, Kofi Awooner, Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Jack Cope, Richard Rive and Sipho Sepamla. The first collection of letters, "Bury Me at the Marketplace, 1943-1980", edited by Chabani Manganyi, was published as a companion to Manganyi's "Exiles and Homecomings: a biography of Esh'kia Mphahlele", published in 1983.

Preface by N Chabani Manganyi. Introduction by David Attwell.
Also includes edited versions of two interviews with Mphahlele conducted by Manganyi in 1981 and 2006.
Martin (W.) ed. GROOT WOORDEBOEK, Afrikaans en Nederlands
2228 pp., hardback, Cape Town, 2011. R995
An amalgamated Afrikaans and Dutch dictionary.

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Masilela (N.) THE CULTURAL MODERNITY OF H.I.E.DHLOMO,
248 pp., paperback, Trenton, 2007. R275
Herbert Isaac Ezra Dhlomo (1903-1956) was one of the most well-known intellectuals of the New Africa Movement, together with Solomon Plaatje, Thomas Mofolo, Peter Abrahams, Harold Cressey, Mahatma Gandhi, Nadine Gordimer and Ezekiel Mphahlele.

Ntongela Masilela discusses Dhlomo's contribution to the New African Movement and the construction of New African modernity through his work as a playwright, short-story writer, essayist, poet, journalist and violinist. He focuses on articles and essays Dhlomo wrote for the newspapers, "Umteteli wa Bantu", "The Bantu World", "Inkundla ya Bantu" and "Ilanga lase Natal".

Ntongela Masilela is Professor of English and World Literature and Professor of Creative Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he is also Director of the H.I.E.Dhlomo Centre for African Intellectual History.
McDonald (P.D.) THE LITERATURE POLICE, apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences
416 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Oxford, 2009. R320
"At last - a small Truth and Reconciliation Commission on South African literature! For the first time the secret documents of the censors and the roles black/white/English/Afrikaans writers and publishers played during apartheid censorship are brought together and scrutinized. Everything is exposed: from the unseemly sensitivities of Afrikaner housewives to the infighting between angry black writers and liberal magazine editors and all of it shows up like never before the vast stinking morass people inevitably create when they try to police literature. An extra bonus is the insightful analysis of the internal negotiations and outward strategies top South African writers developed to deal with the reality of severe injustice, on the one hand, and the effect of censorship, on the other." Antjie Krog

"Indispensable reading if we wish to understand the forces forming and deforming literary productions in South Africa during the apartheid years." JM Coetzee

Peter McDonald is a Fellow of St Hugh's College and a lecturer in English at the University of Oxford.
Mda (Z.) SOMETIMES THERE IS A VOID, memoirs of an outsider
559 pp., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2011. R260
South African playwright and novelist Zakes Mda is also a musician, film maker and beekeeper. He is also a professor of creative writing at Ohio University. His novels include "Ways of Dying" (M-Net Book Prize), "Heart of Redness" (Commonwealth Writers' Prize), "Cion", and "Black Diamond". His plays include "We Shall Sing for the Fatherland" and "The Hill' (Amstel Playwright of the Year Award). He has also published short stories, poetry and literary criticism.
Mesthrie (R.) A DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN INDIAN ENGLISH,
260 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R199
1700 South African Indian English terms with explanations, pronunciation guides where necessary, language origin, examples of their use and citations from literature.

Rajend Mesthrie is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of "Language in Indenture, a sociolinguistic history of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa" (1991) and edited "Language in South Africa" (2002).
Mesthrie (R.) ed. LANGUAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA,
485 pp., maps, hardback, d.w., Cambridge, 2002. R310
A guide to language and society in South Africa.

Contributions include:
"The Khoesan Languages" by A.Traill
"The Bantu Languages: sociohistorical perspectives" by Robert Herbert and Richard Bailey
"Fanakalo: a pidgin in South Africa" by Ralph Adendorff
"Code-switching, Mixing and Convergence in Cape Town" by R.McCormick
"Women's Language of Respect: 'isihlonipho sabafazi'" by R.Finlayson
"An Introduction to Flaaitaal (or Tsotsitaal)" by K.D.P.Makhudu
"Language and Language Practices in Soweto" by Dumisani Krushchev Ntshangase
"Recovering Multilingualism: recent language policy" by Kathleen Heugh.

Rajend Mesthrie is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. His other books include "A Dictionary of South African Indian English".
Mesthrie (R.), Coplan (D.) et.al. HELLO SOUTH AFRICA, phrasebook in 11 official languages
432 pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R170
Includes the essays "South African languages, a sociohistorical perspective" by Prof. Rajend Masthrie,
"South African Multiculturalism" by Shannon Morreira and Marieke van Zyl,
and introductions to the culture of each language group by Prof. David Coplan.
Milllar (M.) JOURNEY OF THE TALL HORSE, a story of African theatre
237 pp., illus., paperback, London, 2006. R230
In 2004 a group of performers and writers from around the world collaborated to tell the story of the giraffe presented to King Charles X of France. They made use of puppets, actors, dancers, stilt-walkers, music, costumes and graphics and incorporated a range of theatrical styles and techniques.
The show was co-produced by Basil Jones of the Handspring Puppet Comany and the Sogolon pupper troupe of Mali. Adrian Kohler was responsible for set and costume design. The international team included director Marthinus Basson, video artist Jaco Bouwer and composer Warrick Sony, all South Africans, as well as Yaya Coulibaly, the puppet-maker and director from Mali, choreographer Koffi Kôkô from Benin and writer Khephra Burns from New York. The book includes Burns's performance script. Theatre director and puppet specialist Mervyn Millar was present as observer, chronicler and assistant director.
Modler (H.) SEXY MEDISYNE,
192 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2011. R145
A collection of essays on amputation, migraine, the history of the condom, cannibalism, and much more by medical specialist Heinz Modler.

"Dié dokter ken sy storie. Hy's vars en energiek - en dikwels baie snaaks." Eben Venter

"Dr Modler het altyd iets nuut om te se oor dit wat almal fassineer: ons eie lyf." Pieter Malan, editor "Rapport Weekliks"

Heinz Modler is one of the contributors to the "Wetenskap Vandag" column in Die Burger. He also writes popular science articles for "Rapport" under his own name as well as his pseudonym, Dr Loeloeraai.

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Mokoena (H.) MAGEMA FUZE, the making of a "kholwa" intellectual
338 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2011. R238
Hlonipa Mokoena examines the life of Magema Fuze, a first-generation convert to Christianity, a printer, a "kholwa" intellectual, and the first Zulu author to write a book in Zulu, "Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Ngakona" (1922), in order to understand "what it meant for Fuze and his contemporaries to write as colonised subjects." from the introduction

"Hlonipha Mokoena's groundbreaking book on Fuze, written with incisive clarity and penetration, examines material from the vernacular press which has hardly been taken into consideration in the study of South African literature. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the turbulent colonial history of Natal and the emergence of black intellectuals in South Africa." Professor Jonathan Draper, School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Hlonipha Mokoena is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia Univesity.
Moran (S.) REPRESENTING BUSHMEN, South Africa and the origin of language
210 pp., illus., hardback, Rochester, 2009. R295
Shane Moran "draws on the work of Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, and Martin Bernal to show how the study of language was integral to the formation of racial discrimination in South Africa." He "demonstrates the central role of literary theory to the cultural racism and ideology that fed into apartheid by tracing the ethno-aesthetic figuration of the Bushmen in W.H.I.Bleek's theory of the origin of language" from the back cover

"'Representing Bushmen' shows how a fine-grained study of a colonial archive can generate an expansive examination of the 'after-image of the colonial subject', as well as a powerful critique of potcolonial neoliberalim." David Kazanjian, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

Shane Moran teaches at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Moto (F.) LANGUAGE, POWER & SOCIETY,
228 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2009. R250
Explores the language situation in Malawi before and after independence, examines the social, economic and educational repercussions of the language policies adopted by pre- and post-independence governments and considers the ramifications of the new language policy introduced in a democratic Malawi.

Dr Francis Moto, currently Malawi's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, is also Associate Professor of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malawi.
Muchemwa (K.) & Muponde (R.) eds. MANNING THE NATION, father figures in Zimbabwean literature and society
199 pp., paperback, Harare & Johannesburg, 2007. R185
Contributions include "Of Fathers and Ancestors in Charles Mungoshi's 'Waiting for the Rain'" by Neil ten Kortenaar,
"'A Man Can Try': negotiating manhoods in colonial urban spaces in Dambudzo Marechera's 'The House of Hunger' and Yvonne Vera's 'Butterfly Burning'" by Grace A.Musila,
"Intricate Spaces: the father-daughter relationship in Zimbabwean literature and culture" by Anna Chitando & Angeline M.Madongonda,
"The Strong Healthy Man: AIDS and self-delusion" by Lizzy Attree,
"Killing Fathers" by Robert Muponde.

Kizito Z.Muchemwa is a Senior Lecturer in English and Media Studies at Zimbabwe Open University.
Robert Muponde is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand.
Mugambi (H.N.) & Allan (T.J.) eds. MASCULINITIES, in African literary and cultural texts
352 pp., paperback, Banbury, 2010. R310
A collection of essays on masculinity as a cultural, historical and political concept in African oral and written literature and film.

Contributions include "The Price of Pleasure: K.Sello Duiker's 'Thirteen Cents' and the economics of homosexuality in South Africa" by Tim Johns, and
"Masculinity on Trial: gender anxiety in African song performances" by Helen Nabasuta Mugambi.

Helen Nabasuta Mugambi is a Professor of Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton.
Tuzyline Jita Allan is a Professor of English at Baruch College (CUNY).
Mulhall (S.) THE WOUNDED ANIMAL, J.M.Coetzee and the difficulty of reality in literature and philosophy
255 pp., paperback, Princeton, 2009. R310
Stephen Mulhall examines J.M.Coetzee's writings about Elizabeth Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them, focusing in particular on their presentation of both literature and philosophy as seeking, and failing, to represent reality.

Stephen Mulhall is fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, University of Oxford.

Neser (A.) STRANGER AT HOME, the praise poet in apartheid South Africa
269 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R240
Ashlee Neser's study on the life and work of praise poet, David Yali-Mansisi (1926-1999), author of five volumes of Xhosa poetry, a prodigious performer, at one time the most famous poet in Kaiser Mathanzima's court, and later a Fulbright scholar and a research officer at Rhodes University and the University of Trankei.

Ashlee Neser is a researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Nuttall (S.) ENTANGLEMENT, literary and cultural reflections on post-apartheid
198 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R220
An exploration of the concept of entanglement in relation to readings of literature, new media forms and painting

"Sarah Nuttal offers her readers new critical vocabularies with which to grasp the fictions of self-making, the politics and aesthetics of consumption, and the new and terrifying technologies of the sexualised body." Hazel Carby

"Sarah Nuttall's book is a welcome addition to South African literary and cutural studies, taking us in new directions beyond the apartheid and even standard post-apartheid models, Moving through a variety of settings and moments both textual and non-textual, it is prepared to take risks in matters ranging from the 'citiness' of Johannesburg, to the recombinatory qualities of style, to the larger implications of violence in South Africa" Stephen Clingman

"Elegantly and lucidly written, it offers a penetrating and unique analysis of the complex and paradoxical forms of culture emerging in South Africa today." Isabel Hofmeyr

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand.

Peek (P.M.) & Yankah (K.) eds. AFRICAN FOLKLORE, an encyclopedia
593 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Reprint, London, (2004) 2009. R599
An introduction to folklore throughout the African continent with in-depth examinations of individual countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres and numerous other concepts related to folklore.

Philip Peek is Professor of Anthropology at Drew University, USA.
Kwesi Yankah is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ghana.
Poyner (J.) ed. J.M.COETZEE, and the idea of the public intellectual
246 pp., paperback, Athens & Pietermaritzburg, 2006. R180
Includes the essays "The Life and Times of Elizabeth Costello: J.M.Coetzee and the public sphere" by David Atwell, "Against Allegory: 'Waiting for the Barbarians', 'Life & Times of Michael K', and the question of literary reading" by David Attridge, "What is It Like to Be a Nonracist? Costello and Coetzee on the lives of animals and men" by Michael Bell, "A Belief in Frogs: J.M.Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction" by Dominic Head, "Going to the Dogs: humanity in J.M.Coetzee's 'Disgrace', 'The Lives of Animals', and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission" by Rosemary Jolly, "A Feminist-Vegetarian Defense of Elizabeth Costello: a rant from an ethical academic on J.M.Coetzee's 'The Lives of Animals'" by Laura Wright, and more.

Jane Poyner is a lecturer in postcolonial literature in the School of English at the University of Exeter.
Prinsloo (A.) ANNERLIKE AFRIKAANS, woordeboek van Afrikaanse kontreitaal
536 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2009. R250
A dictionary of more than 700 Afrikaans words and expressions that are only used in specific regions of the country.
Prinsloo (A.F.) DIE AAP IN JOU KOFFIE, Afrikaanse eponieme van A tot Z
351 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2011. R200
A collection of around 2000 eponyms.

Anton Prinsloo is also the author of "Annerlike Afrikaans". In 2003 he was awarded the C.J.Langenhoven Prize for Linguistics.

Text in Afrikaans.
Rafapa (L.) ES'KIA MPHAHLELE'S AFRIKAN HUMANISM ,
407 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R200
Lesibana Rafala explores the evolution of Es'kia Mphahlele's central concept of Afrikan Humanism in his poetry, short stories, autobiographies and novels. This book develops the research undertaken in Rafala's published doctoral thesis, "The Representation of Afrikan Humanism in the Narrative Writings of Es'kia Mphahlele". He earned his D.Litt in English from the University of Stellenbosch in 2006.

Lesibana Rafapa is currently teaching in the English Department at the University of Venda.
Rall (M.) PEACEABLE WARRIOR, the life and times of Sol T Plaatje
314 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Kimberley, 2003. R355
A biography of journalist, interpreter, author and politician Sol Plaatje (1876-1932), author of "Boer War Diary", "Native Life in South Africa" and "Mhudi".
Roberts (R.S.) NO COLD KITCHEN, a biography of Nadine Gordimer
733 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005. R220
This biography, drawing upon "unpresedented access to Gordimer and her documents", charts the Nobel Laureate's life and times and discusses her work in depth.

Nadine Gordimer attempted to stop publiscation of this book.

Ronald Suresh Roberts was born in London, grew up in Trinidad, graduated from Balliol College Oxford and Harvard Law School, worked in New York and came to Johannesburg in 1994 as coordinator of an international election monitoring delegation. He is co-author of "Reconciliation Through Truth: a reckoning of apartheid's criminal governance" (1997).
Samuelson (M.) REMEMBERING THE NATION, DISMEMBERING WOMEN?, stories of the South African transition
272 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007. R210
Examines fictional and autobiographical representations of women produced during the first decade of democracy in South Africa. Writers studied include Zoë Wicomb, J.M.Coetzee, Sindiwe Magona, Zakes Mda, Njabulo Ndebele, Elleke Boehmer, André Brink, Zubeida Jaffer and Mamphela Ramphele.

Meg Samuelson is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Stellenbosch.
Sanders (M.) AMBIGUITIES OF WITNESSING, law and literature in the time of a truth commission
257 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R220
Mark Sanders analyses key individual testimonies to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, discusses "the nature of the literary and its relation to the legal, the political, and the ethical", and investigates questions of human rights, mourning, forgiveness and reparation.

Mark Sanders is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of "Complicities: the intellectual and apartheid", published in 2002.
Scannell (J.) comp. SPREUKE VAN C.J.LANGENHOVEN,
126 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (1988) 2011. R130
A selection of quotes on love and friendship, values, wisdom and leadership by C.J.Langenhoven.

Text in Afrikaans.
Sharpe (C.) MONSTROUS INTIMACIES, making post-slavery subjects
254 pp., illus., paperback, Durham, 2010. R285
"Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those 'monstrous intimacies' and their repetition as constitutive of post-slavery subjectivity." from the back cover

Includes a chapter, "Bessie Head, Saartjie Baartman, and 'Maru', redemption, subjectification, and the problem of liberation".

Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Tufts University.
Stiebel (L.) & Gunner (L.) eds. STILL BEATING THE DRUM, critical perspectives on Lewis Nkosi
375 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R180
Essays include "Lewis Nkosi as Literary Critic" by Annie Gagiano, "Contaminations: BBC Radio and the black artist - Lewis Nkosi's 'The Trial' and 'We Can't All be Martin Luther King'" by Liz Gunner, "An Introduction to the Poetry of Lewis Nkosi" by Litzi Lombardozzi, "Mammon and God: reality, imagination and irony in 'Underground People'" by Andries Oliphant and "The Return of the Native: Lewis Nkosi's 'Mating Birds' revisited in post-apartheid Durban" by Lindy Stiebel. Also includes a 2002 interview with Nkosi conducted by Zoë Molver, a conversation between Nkosi, Nuruddin Farah and Achille Mbembe in 2003 and a retrospective selection of Nkosi's articles from various periods in his career as a literary critic.

Lindy Stiebel is Professor of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Liz Gunner is a Fellow of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER).
Stobie (C.) SOMEWHERE IN THE DOUBLE RAINBOW, representations of bisexuality in post-aparthied novels
307 pp., paperback, Pietermartizburg, 2007. R190
Novels discussed include "Bitter Eden" by Tatamkulu Afrika, "Cracks" by Sheila Kohler, "The Smell of Apples" by Mark Behr, "The House Gun" by Nadine Gordimer, "The Quiet Violence of Dreams" by K.Sello Duiker, "Love Themes for the Wilderness" by Ashraf Jamal, "The World Unseen" by Shamin Sarif & "In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot" by Barbara Adair.

Cheryl Strobie lectures in the English Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Strode (T.F.) THE ETHICS OF EXILE, colonialism in the fictions of Charles Brocken Brown and J.M.Coetzee
253 pp., hardback, New York & London, 2005. R770
Examines three novels by J.M.Coetzee: "Life & Times of Michael K", "Age of Iron" and "Disgrace".
Szczurek (K.M.) comp. & Heyns (M.) ed. ENCOUNTERS WITH ANDRÉ BRINK,
223 pp., paperback], Cape Town, 2010. R200
A collection of essays published to celebrate André Brink's seventy-fifth birthday.

Contributors include Naas Steenkamp, Braam de Vries, Koos Human, Tim Couzens, Ariel Dorfman, Per Wästberg, Elleke Boehmer, Jakes Gerwel, Nadine Gordimer, J.M.Coetzee, Antjie Krog, Sindiwe Magona, Alberto Manguel and Bodil Malmsten.
Thomas (G.) THE SEXUAL DEMON OF COLONIAL POWER, Pan-African embodiment and erotic schemes of empire
200 pp., paperback, Bloomington, 2007. R225
Greg Thomas analyses the sexual politics of slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism as well as ideas about bodies and offers an anti-racist, anti-imperialist Pan-African approach to theory, fiction, cinema, and popluar culture.

Greg Thomas is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University and founder and editor of "Proud Flesh: new Afrikan journal of culture, politics, & consciousness".
van der Merwe (C.) & Gobodo-Madikizela (P.) NARRATING OUR HEALING, perspectives on working through trauma
106 pp., paperback, South African print on demand edition, Newcastle, 2008. R205
Explores the importance of narrative as a way of working through trauma.

Chris van der Merwe is Associate Professor of Afrikaans and Dutch Literature at the University of Cape Town.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town and a former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She is the author of "A Human Being Died that Night: a story of forgiveness", about her meetings with Eugene de Kok..
van der Merwe (L.M.) GESPREKKE OOR INGRID JONKER,
255 pp., illus., paperback, Hermanus, 2006. R155
Interviews with Anna Jonker, Prof. P.J.Nienaber, Dr. Cor Pama, Jan Rabie, Majorie Wallace, Berta Smit, Freda Linde, W.A.de Klerk, Uys Krige and André Brink, amongst others, psychologist Lucas van der Merwe conducted in 1977 when he was doing research for his doctoral thesis, "Ingrid Jonker: 'n psigologiese analise".

Foreword by Petrovna Metelerkamp, who edited the taped interviews.

Text in Afrikaans.
van Rooyen (K.) A SOUTH AFRICAN CENSOR'S TALE,
180 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2011. R180
Preface by André Brink.

Kobus van Rooyen was chairman of the Publications Appeal Board from 1980 to 1990. After his term expired he was elected chairman of the Press Council. Currently he is chairman of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. He also chaired the Ministerial Task Group which drafted the new Films and Publications Act from 1994 to 1996. In this book he outlines a history of the Publications Appeal Board, founded in 1974.

"It took Kobus van Rooyen to read the situation lucidly and with a level head, and set in motion a process which would eventually remove the stain of shame the apartheid system of censorship had left on the arts. The book is, essentially, and account of the battle that had to be waged in the eighties to recover the self-respect of the nation in the field of culture." André Brink
Veit-Wild (F.) WRITING MADNESS, borderlines of the body in African literature
174 pp., illus., paperback, Oxford, etc., 2006. R140
Flora Veit-Wild focuses on "those writers and topics who touch on the extreme, on the thin line between sanity and insanity". Includes chapters on Dambudzo Marechera, Lesego Rampolokeng, Bessie Head and Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Flora Veit-Wild is Professor of African Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Venter (H.) et. al. (eds.) POMP, 09, 'n biblioteek van gedagtes
492 pp., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R230
An annual Afrikaans publication of literature, journalism, music, architecture, film, photography and art.

Articles include a conversation between Breyten Breytenbach and Buitreboer that took place in New York in 2000, Joan Hambidge on the Boer War, Danie Goosen on alternative Afrikaners, Jean Oosthuizen on Hillbrow, André Bartlett on Robert Mugabe, Adolph van Coller on Rain Malan's music, Dawid de Villiers and Tilla Slabbert on David Kramer, Wium van Zyl on Malay choirs, and much more.
Versfeld (M.) POTS AND POETRY, and other essays
172 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2009. R120
Introduction by André Brink.

"Pots and Poetry" was first published in 1985.
The others essays in this collection first appeared in "Sum", published in 1991.

Martin Versfeld was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town.
Versfeld (M.) THE PHILOSOPHER'S COOKBOOK,
211 pp., hardback, d.w., Harpenden, 2007. R150
A reprint of Martin Versfeld's philosophical treatise on cooking, first published in South Africa in 1983 as "Food for Thought: a philosopher's cookbook".

"A book of profound wisdom and a great delight." André Brink

Martin Versfeld (1909 - 1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town and wrote widely on theology, Continental thought and Eastern mysticism.
Versfeld (M.) OUR SELVES,
272 pp., paperback, Reprint, Pretoria, (1979) 2010. R160
Introduction by Professor Ernst Wolff.

Martin Versveld was professor of philosophy at the University of Cape Town and wrote widely on philosophy and theology. In this volume, originally published in 1979, he discusses the "increased fragmentation experienced by those who imbibed with their mother's milk Descarte's famous dictum, 'I think therefore I am', and he finds wholeness in the teachings of St Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas and the Buddha." from the back cover
Viljoen (L.) ONS ONGEHOORDE SOORT, beskouings oor die werk van Antjie Krog
240 pp., paperback, Stellenbosch, 2009. R108
A collection of essays in Afrikaans on Antjie Krog's poetry and prose.

Louise Viljoen is professor in the Department van Afrikaans en Nederlands at the University of Stellenbosch.
Vladislavic (I.) THE LOSS LIBRARY AND OTHER UNFINISHED STORIES,
110 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R130
Ivan Vladislavic examines eleven of his own stories which have either gone missing or been left unfinished, how the ideas arose, and why he abandoned them.

Ivan Vladislavic has won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. His books include the novels "The Folly", "The Restless Supermarket", "The Exploded View" and "Double Negative"; "Portrait with Keys", a sequence of texts about Johannesburg; and a collection of short stories, "Flashback Hotel".
Watson (S.) THE MUSIC IN THE ICE, on writers, writing & other things
381 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R200
Foreword by Christopher Hope.

A new collection of essays by poet and essayist Stephen Watson.
Wenzel (J.) BULLETPROOF, afterlives of anticolonial prohpecy in South Africa and beyond
311 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg & Chicago, 2009. R260
Jennifer Wenzel examines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the 1856/57 Xhosa cattle killing "to speak to their contemporary predicaments. Widening her lens, she also looks at how past failure can both inspire and constrain movements for justice in the present".

"This book counts among the very best works of literary history I have read to date. It is strikingly well argued, beautifully written, and highly original in its conception and design." Sarah Nuttall, Associate Professor of Literary & Cultural Studies at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Studies (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand.

Jennifer Wenzel is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
Wessels (M.) BUSHMAN LETTERS, interpreting lXam narrative
330 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R220
Michael Wessels critiques the critical tradition that has developed around the lXam archive and the hermeneutic principles that inform that tradition, and offers alternative modes of reading.

Michael Wessels is a researcher in the English Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
West (M.) WHITE WOMEN WRITING WHITE, identity and representation in (post-) apartheid literatures of South Africa
232 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R176
Mary West analyses the works of selected South African women writers, examining the ways in which they have portrayed the white South African experience. Works discussed include "People Like Ourselves" by Pamela Jooste, "One Tongue Singing" by Susan Mann, "A Change of Tongue" by Antjie Krog, "Echo Location" by Karen Press, short stories by Nadine Gordimer and Marlene van Niekerk and Marianne Thamm's columns in Fair Lady magazine.

Mary West teaches in the Department of Languages and Literature at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth.
Will (R.G.) ROLE OF THE ARTIST IN SOCIETY, 24 interviews from South Africa
206 pp., illus., paperback, No Place, 2012. R300
A self-published collection of interviews Ralf G.Will conducted with various South African artists and writers in 1988. These conversations revolve around the question of the artist's function in society. Writers interviewed include Patrick Cullinan, Donald Parenzee, James Matthews, Nadine Gordimer, Richard Rive, Jan Rabie, Chris Barnard, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Gibson Kente, Sipho Sepamla, and Miriam Tlali.
Woodward (W.) THE ANIMAL GAZE, animal subjectivities in southern African narratives
192 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R220
Explores the work of southern African writers - Olive Schreiner, Zakes Mda, Yvonne Vera, Eugene Marais, J.M.Coetzee, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Michiel Heyns, Marlene van Niekerk, Linda Tucker and others - who represent animals as individual subjects, asking us to think differently about animals and our relationships with them.

Wendy Woodward is a Professor in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape.
Zegeye (A.) & Vambe (M.) CLOSE TO THE SOURCES, essays on contemporary African culture, politics and academy
172 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2009. R190
A collection of reworked articles and academic papers that explore the relationships between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa's indigenous knowledge systems.

Abebe Zegeye is Director of the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of Witwatersrand.
Maurice Vambe is Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies, University of South Africa.