South Africa and Zimbabwe

Introduction: South Africa

South African authors have been particularly productive in 2011. This can be seen in the length of the bibliography, especially the poetry and fiction sections. Authors such as Dan Wylie, Anton Krueger, Harry Owen, Denis Hirson, Michiel Heyns, Leon de Kock, Mike Nicol and Sarah Lotz have had more than one book published and others, such as Dawn Garisch, Azila Talit Reisenberger and Leon de Kock, have moved across genres between fiction and poetry.

Dawn Garisch is best known as a novelist, but this year showed that she is a fine poet as well. Her poem “Miracle” won the inaugural Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and her first collection of poems, Difficult Gifts, appeared. Anton Krueger is another established writer who produced a collection of poetry, Everyday Anomalies. Of the debut collections, the following were particularly impressive: On Another Page by Marike Beyers, At Least the Duck Survived by Margaret Clough, Conduit by Sarah Frost, Woman Unfolding by Jenna Mervis and A Lioness at My Heels by Robin Winckel-Mellish.

Colleen Higgs, through her small publishing houses Modjaji Books and Hands-On, has brought many fine collections to light. Almost all of the debut collections came from her. It is pleasing to see a new collection of her own poetry, Lava Lamp Poems. Overall, this was a good year for poetry, with many strong collections from established poets. The most noteworthy are collections by Charl Cilliers, Gary Cummiskey, Ingrid De Kok, Gail Dendy, Isobel Dixon, Myesha Jenkins, Napo Masheane, John Mateer, Mxolisi Nyezwa, Harry Owen, Douglas Reid Skinner and Dan Wylie. Peter Horn brought out his collected works, covering over forty years of poetry.

The SALA Poetry Award went to Phillippa Yaa de Villiers for The Everyday Wife. Leon de Kock won the SALA Literary Translator’s Award for his translation of Intimately Absent by Cas Vos (both books published in 2010). De Kock and Vos again collaborated on Before It Darkens, with each poem appearing in the original Afrikaans as well as in English translation. South Africa’s multilingualism is reflected in the number of books containing poems in languages other than English.

The Fire That Blazed in the Ocean contains poems originally written in Gujarati by South African Indians and published in Gandhi’s newspaper Indian Opinion between 1909 and 1911.The collection provides an interesting insight into the early Indian diasporic community. Shafinaaz Hassim puts together a collection of contemporary short stories and poetry by Indian South African authors in Belly of Fire. A large number of poets are brought together in the anthologies The Ground’s Ear and Letter to South Africa. This collection continues the heritage of protest poetry, with poets speaking out about social and political concerns.

Cockroach: A Trilogy of Plays by Jonathan Nkala contains three plays: The Crossing, which deals with Nkala’s journey from Zimbabwe to South Africa and life as an illegal immigrant, and two short plays set in Zimbabwe, Faith in Love and The Bicycle Thief. Yael Farber is known for radical adaptations of the classics and, with RAM, she reworks the ancient Hindu tale of The Ramayana. Mary Renault was a novelist best known for her historical fiction set in Ancient Greece, most notably a trilogy on the life of Alexander the Great. In Mary and the Conqueror, Juliet Jenkins envisions herself meeting Alexander.

While only three individual plays were published, a number of interesting anthologies appeared. SA Gay Plays contains five plays: by Fiona Coyne, Pieter Jacobs, Juliet Jenkin, Ashraf Johaardien and Gideon van Eeden, which were staged at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival from 2006 to 2010. Published individually by Junkets over the years, they are now brought together in one volume. Junkets also produced two collections of plays aimed at high schools, Short, Sharp & Snappy 1 and 2. The Theatre in Translation Project saw plays from South Africa and Argentina published in translation between English and Spanish. 10 Plays from Argentina & South Africa appeared in English, to be distributed in South Africa, and in Spanish, for Argentinean distribution. The five South African plays are by Megan Furniss, Nicola Hanekom, Julian de Wette, Peter Hayes and Mike van Graan.

Twist Theatre Development Projects produced two interesting collections. New South African Playscripts came from a project where theatre professionals worked with community groups. Each group produced two productions – a full play, which was then adapted to create a short two-hander. Both versions of the play were performed and have now been published. Each play appears in English and with a Zulu translation. The playwrights involved in the project were David Stevens, Amy Jephta, Dhaveshan Govender, Bhekani Thabede, Anton Krueger and Neil Coppen. The Novel-Script Project 2011 contains plays originating from a developmental workshop where up-and-coming playwrights used a novel, Spilt Milk by Kopana Matlwa, as inspiration for a short play. These were workshopped and rewritten, with the final versions published in South Africa.

The fiction section is particularly strong. It is encouraging to see impressive debuts from new authors H.J. Golakai, Shubnum Khan, Yewande Omotoso, Jacques Strauss, and Terry Westby-Nunn. Strauss was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for first novel, while Golakai, Khan and Westby-Nunn were finalists for the UJ Debut Prize, with Westby-Nunn winning the award. Golakai and Omotoso were also shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, along with Henrietta Rose-Innes and Michiel Heyns. Heyns won this award as well as the Herman Charles Bosman Prize, with Margie Orford and Finuala Dowling on the shortlist. Dowling and Heyns were shortlisted for the UJ Prize, which was won by Craig Higginson. The emergence of strong new voices is further strengthened by a number of authors following up their debuts with impressive work. Authors to watch include Dianne Awerbuck, Richard de Nooy, Tracey Farren, Hazel Frankel, Lauren Liebenberg, Thando Magqolozana, Sipho Mahala, Paige Nick and Sarah Penny.

Fiction writers were preoccupied with the past. Several historical novels were published in which the action moves between the past and the present, with protagonists looking back on their lives, or else being forced to re-examine their own or the country’s history. Dark secrets, guilt and betrayal are common themes.

The Landscape Painter by Craig Higginson moves between 1947 post-war London and late 1890s South Africa. The arrival of a new neighbour forces a painter to face long buried wounds and secrets. Higginson’s tale of obsession and betrayal has been highly praised as has Lost Ground by Michiel Heyns. This award-winning novel depicts a writer’s return to his childhood home, a fictional Karoo town, with the intention to research and write about the murder of his cousin. As his preconceived ideas crumble, he learns more about his own life. Heyns translated Etienne van Heerden’s award-winning Afrikaans novel 30 Nights in Amsterdam, which explores similar terrain. A South African historian inherits a house from a long lost aunt. He travels to Amsterdam to claim his inheritance and to research the subject of a biography he intends to write. He is forced, instead, to confront his own past and re-examine childhood memories and secrets.

The Big Stick by Richard de Nooy is also set in Amsterdam. A South African woman travels to Amsterdam to retrieve the body of her gay son. She attempts to reconstruct his life and the events leading up to his death. The Lies We Shared by Sarah Penny moves between past and present as a journalist investigates her mother’s past. In Ivory from Paradise by David Schmahmann, adult siblings attempt to find out the truth about their father’s art collection, which forces them to reassess their own history and that of their country.

Illuminating Love by Hazel Frankel tells the story of two Jewish women from different times and places. A calligrapher in contemporary South Africa transcribes her Lithuanian grandmother’s poems about escaping the Holocaust. With her marriage strained by the effects of the Bush War on her husband and rising xenophobia in South Africa, the past is revealed as not that much of a different country. Onion Tears by Shubnum Khan depicts three generations of Indian women as they struggle to reconcile South African and Indian identities. This debut novel is a moving account of memory, love, loss and family secrets. Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart by Finuala Dowling is another poignant and highly praised story of loss. Dowling explores the dilemma of the “sandwich years”, women dealing with aged parents at the same time as coping with teenage children. Both Joonie by Rayda Jacobs and Love Child by Sheila Kohler show older women reflecting on their lives.

Nineveh by Henrietta Rose-Innes and Sea of Wise Insects by Terry Westby both feature characters haunted by their pasts through the use of the unlikely trope of insects. In Nineveh a pest control expert called in to deal with an insect invasion that is hampering the development of a gated estate, Nineveh, must deal with her own past which returns to haunt her. The book has been praised for the sharp, almost surreal imagery and lyrical writing. Sea of Wise Insects by Terry Westby-Nunn is a dark gothic novel of a disaster-prone woman and explores issues of memory, family and fate. This impressive debut has attracted comparisons to J.M. Coetzee and Jeanette Winterson. Bom Boy by Yewande Omotoso also incorporates elements of magic realism. It spans past and present with the story of a troubled young man living in Cape Town, where he spends his childhood as a mixed-race boy raised by white adoptive parents. Letters from his Nigerian biological father explain a curse on the family.

Kitchen Boy by Jenny Hobbs starts with the death of the central character, J.J. Kitching, businessman, war hero and Springbok rugby player (nicknamed Kitchen Boy). His life is told through memories and reflections of the mourners at his funeral, with each person’s memories showing different aspects of Kitching’s life. Leon de Kock is a critically acclaimed academic, poet and translator. Bad Sex is his first novel and has been highly praised for its provocative exploration of gender, masculinity and sexual relations. A man in therapy tries to understand his failed relationships and reflects on his life, growing up in working-class Johannesburg in the 1960s and 1970s.

The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club by Lauren Liebenberg, which covers similar terrain, is a coming-of-age novel depicting two twelve-year-old boys growing up in a mining town near Johannesburg in the 1950s. The novel also has a boxing sub-theme but the emphasis is on friendship and loss of innocence. The Classifier by Wessel Ebersohn is also a coming-of-age novel, but set in 1970s South Africa and dealing with love across the racial divide as well as the damage to individuals and families of the apartheid obsession with race. Brent Meersman sets his new novel Reports before Daybreak in the late 1980s, in the last years of the struggle against apartheid. Denis Hirson has produced a number of memoirs reflecting on life in Johannesburg in the 1960s. The Dancing and the Death on Lemon Street is his first novel which also explores this period.

While much of the historical fiction explores South African history, three impressive novels are set in more distant times and countries. The History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason is set in Amsterdam in the early twentieth century and follows the social and sexual adventures of a young man as he uses his charm to rise socially. The novel has been praised for its humour, charm and historical detail and appeared on The Independent’s list of 50 best summer reads. It is the first of a projected series featuring the same character. The Colour of Power by Marie Heese is set in sixth-century Byzantium and provides a fictional account of the historical figure Theodora, following her rise through society to become the wife of Emperor Justinian. Hear Me Alone by Thando Magqolozane is a provocative and daring novel, set in first-century Judea and offering an imaginative alternative to the story of the conception and birth of Jesus.

Bundu by Chris Barnard is another novel translated by Michiel Heyns. Barnard is a major figure in Afrikaans literature and was awarded the SALA Lifetime Achievement Award for his entire oeuvre. Bundu has complex characters struggling to prevent a humanitarian disaster at a small mission hospital overwhelmed by the flood of refugees following a devastating drought. First published in 1989, its concerns are still relevant. Freedom Never Lies by James Kilgore is set in a fictional Eastern Cape township and portrays the tensions that have led to the service delivery riots of recent years. Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright is set against the backdrop of the European banking crisis, while Cruel Crazy Beautiful World by Troy Blacklaws deals with xenophobia in South Africa. Shirley Mowat Tucker won the inaugural Athanatos Christian Novel contest for her debut novel Diamonds in the Dust which depicts a woman’s journey to healing and wholeness after the murder of her husband. The spiritual elements are sensitively woven into a novel which simultaneously addresses issues such as violent crime, the plight of orphans and child abuse.

Several of the novels have child protagonists. In addition to the many coming-of-age stories, books such as Planet Savage by Tuelo Gabonewe and The Dubious Salvation of Jack V by Jacques Strauss offer a child’s view of events. Snake by Tracey Farren interrogates and interrupts the child’s voice as a young girl tells a story of traumatic events to a tabloid journalist.

Few novels set in contemporary South Africa are able to avoid dealing with crime and violence. Many authors focus specifically on these themes, with a continuing interest in crime fiction and thrillers. While there have always been authors producing escapist adventure stories, the best of the current crime novels can be treated as serious literature, offering social commentary. This can be seen in the presence of authors such as Margie Orford and H.J. Golaki on shortlists for literary awards. Jassy Mackenzie, Chris Marnewick, Mike Nicol, Margie Orford, Sue Rabie and Diale Tlholwe continue series featuring their detectives, with Joanne Hichens starting a new series, featuring a character who had a minor role in one of her previous novels. Peter Church, Deon Meyer and Roger Smith also have strong stand-alone novels. Bad Blood by Amanda Smith and The Lazarus Effect by H.J. Golakai are impressive debuts. Interestingly, both feature missing children.

There were not as many novels for teenagers this year but, of those published, Sally-Ann Partridge, Edyth Bulbring and Lily Herne are particularly worth noting. Sally-Ann Partridge won the MER Prize for Youth Literature for Dark Poppy’s Demise, a dark and disturbing look at the dangers of online relationships. A young girl encounters an internet predator and gets caught in an obsessive and increasingly dangerous relationship. Edyth Bulbring follows up the popular and funny Melly, Mrs Ho & Me with the equally humorous and well-written Melly, Fatty and Me. It continues the adventures of a young girl as she struggles to stay out of trouble at school and to cope with family and friends. Roy Aronson’s Jamie James and the Curse of the Ancestors blends African mysticism, adventure and environmental awareness in the account of a young boy’s quest to remove a two-hundred-year-old curse on his family. Turtle Walk by Joanne Macgregor also deals with environmental issues as a group of friends work to save endangered turtles. Judy Frome’s Solomon’s Story is a fictional account of the life and death of Solomon Mahlangu, a teenage freedom fighter of the 1970s who was executed in 1979 for anti-apartheid activities.

Cover2Cover is a new publisher of youth fiction, aimed at developing a community of teenage readers, using accessible novels and social media. The novels Jealous in Jozi by Dorothy Dyer and Ros Haden and Sugar Daddy by Haden form part of a series of interlinked stories centred on a group of teenagers attending Harmony High, a fictional township school. The books have been well received by literacy and education experts, but also by teenage readers.

One of the most talked about youth novels was Deadlands by Lily Herne, South Africa’s first zombie novel. It has been highly praised, attracting audiences beyond the teenage market. The novel is set ten years after a zombie apocalypse in a world where people have to adapt to living with the living dead roaming the deadlands of Cape Town. It is an intriguing and entertaining mix of science fiction, adventure and social commentary. Lily Herne is the pen name of Sarah Lotz and her teenage daughter Savannah. Lotz also collaborated with Louis Greenberg to write a horror novel under the name S.L. Grey. The Mall is a dark and disturbing descent into a strange world beneath a shopping mall. Bloody Parchment, edited by Nerine Dorman, is an anthology of horror short stories. While uneven in quality, it is another sign of the increasing interest in dark speculative fiction.

While most of the fiction deals with serious issues, a number of humorous stories have also been published, most noteworthy being A Year in the Wild by James Hendry, which tells of the misadventures of feuding brothers working at a luxury game lodge; A Match for Dr Koekentapp by Nick Kayle, where a Jewish mother’s matchmaking attempts go wrong when she discovers too late that Dr Koekentapp is not Jewish, and Never Too Naked, satirist Pieter Dirk Uys’s fictional memoir of Bambi Kellerman, one of his stage personas. Nataniël’s collection Nicky & Lou contains amusing stories and anecdotes drawn from his stage productions.

South African authors are well represented in several anthologies of African short stories. Of the specifically South African anthologies, The Edge of Things edited by Arja Salafranca is particularly worth noting. African Pens 2011 contains the best of the entries received for the PEN/Studzinski Literary Award, which was won by James Whyle. While the competition is open to all SADC countries, most of the stories in this book are by South Africans. Several strong collections of stories appeared, most notably by Dianne Awerbuck, Tony Eprile, Siphiwo Mahala, Peter Merrington and Mbulelo Mzamane.

The Lovers by Bessie Head is a revised edition of Tales of Tenderness and Power. This collection includes stories published in journals in the 1960s and 1970s that were never published in book form. Herman Charles Bosman wrote a series of linked short stories for the newspaper The Forum. Many of the stories have been published in previous collections, but The Complete Voorkamer Stories brings together the full series in the original sequence. Scenes from Provincial Life brings together J.M. Coetzee’s cycle of autobiographical fiction, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime in one volume.

South African non-fiction tends to be dominated by biographies or memoirs of political figures and sportsmen. This year saw a large number of books of literary interest. Hugh Lewin won the Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction for his memoir Stones against the Mirror: Friendship in the Time of the South African Struggle, which examines friendship and betrayal, most notably by the close friend who turned state witness and whose evidence saw Lewin imprisoned for his anti-apartheid activities. Bertha Goudvis was a pioneering feminist, writer and journalist and her memoir provides useful reflections on mid-twentieth century South African culture and politics. South African Odyssey is drawn from various drafts and extracts and edited by Marcia Leveson. Sometimes There Is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider is a substantial autobiography from author and academic Zakes Mda and a useful addition to the growing body of criticism of his work.

Scholarship on three significant poets, Dennis Brutus, Roy Campbell and Thomas Pringle has been advanced through scholarly editions of memoirs or letters. Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography, edited by Bernth Lindfors, draws on a series of recordings made in the 1970s where Brutus reflected on his life and career as poet and anti-apartheid activist. In Remembering Roy Campbell, Judith Lütge Coullie brings together memoirs of the poet’s daughters. While providing valuable insights into the life and work of Campbell, their accounts are also interesting in themselves, as portraits of South Africans living in Europe in the early to mid-twentieth century. The South African Letters of Thomas Pringle, edited by Randolph Vigne, contains letters from 1819 to 1834 and records Pringle’s emigration to South Africa from Scotland, the settler experience, his involvement in colonial literary life and struggles for the freedom of the press.

David Kramer is perhaps best known as a singer and songwriter, but has done important work in musical theatre. David Kramer: A Biography by Dawid de Villiers and Mathilda Slabbert provides insight into his life and work. Gibson Kente was an important and influential figure in the theatre world, yet little is known about him. A critical biography Bra Gib: Father of South Africa’s Township Theatre by Rolf Solberg serves to redress this neglect.

Sindiwe Magona was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga medal for outstanding services to literature. Her contribution to this year’s literature is a biography of Njongonkulu Ndungane, former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town. From Robben Island to Bishopscourt has an informal tone, but gives a valuable insight into this activist and priest figure as well as into South African political and church history. Dan Wylie has previously written two scholarly books on Shaka, iconic Zulu chief of the early nineteenth century. Shaka is a brief and accessible introduction which separates myths and stereotypes from historical facts. In addition to crime fiction, Mike Nicol also writes about a real crime, the 2011 murder of a British tourist on honeymoon in South Africa, with the accusation that it was not another incident of random violence but a murder arranged by the victim’s husband. Monkey Business records the details of the murder and investigation but also looks at how it was reported and became part of the national conversation on crime.

Karen Lazar’s Hemisphere is difficult to categorise more specifically than the category of creative non-fiction. Part memoir, part prose poems, it contains fragments of beautiful writing reflecting on her experience of a stroke. The Loss Library gives a wonderful insight into Ivan Vladislavic’s writing process. Using essays and a short story (the delightful “The Loss Library”, where all the books that have never been written or that were lost in the past are to be found), Vladislavic discusses his own stories that were never completed, whether lost or abandoned. The essays lead beyond simple reflections on his own writing into meditations on the broader ideas of writing, literature and the imagination and will be of interest to writers and critics. Vladislavic finally receives the critical attention he deserves with a collection Marginal Spaces: Reading Ivan Vladislavic, edited by Gerald Gaylard. Other books focusing on individual authors are Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Gail Fincham, and four books on J.M. Coetzee: Acts of Visitation: The Narrative of J.M. Coetzee by Maria J. Lopez, On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject by Grant Hamilton, A Companion to the Works of J.M. Coetzee edited by Tim Mehigan, and Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory by Brett Ashley Kaplan. A special issue of Safundi is devoted to the work of Zoë Wicomb.

Criticism this year addresses a wide range of authors and themes. However, there is very little criticism on poetry. The poetry world suffered more than just critical neglect when Patrick Cullinan and Stephen Watson died within a week of each other. Both were significant South African poets, leaving an impressive body of work. This year also saw the death of novelist June Drummond, whose prolific publication of popular fiction from the 1960s onwards foreshadowed the current interest in crime fiction.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements and thanks are due to my colleagues at NELM, especially to Debbie Landman, Lynne Grant and Victor Clarke.

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Learmont, Tom Light Across Time: A Novel 248pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Leroux-Van der Boon, Marzanne Tiferet Yisra’el: The Glory of Israel 344pp Lux Verbi (Cape Town).

Levy, Barry Shades of Exodus 286pp Interactive Press (Carindale, Aus).

Liebenberg, Lauren The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club viii+274pp Virago Press (London).

Maake, Nhlanhla Hyenas in a Place of Joy 212pp Ekaam Books (Mulbarton).

Macgregor, Joanne Turtle Walk 260pp Protea Book House (Pretoria) [for young adults].

Mackenzie, Jassy Worst Case 254pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Mahala, Siphiwo African Delights 243pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park) [short stories].

Make, Louise N. Five-Star Seduction 151pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Marnewick, Chris A Sailor’s Honour 270pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Masakala, Teboho Through It All 66pp Tam Books (Thaba Nchu).

Mason, Richard The History of a Pleasure Seeker 283pp Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London).

Matsaneng, Lerato Love on the Menu 149pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Meersman, Brent Reports before Daybreak 345pp Umuzi (Roggebaai).

Memela, Sandile His Master’s Voice 253pp Mamelang (Midrand).

Merrington, Peter The Zombie and the Moon: More Tales from the Shaman’s Record 303pp Jacana (Auckland Park) [short stories].

Mgqolozana, Thando Hear Me Alone 131pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

Miller, Candi Kalahari Passage 239pp Tindal Street Press (Birmingham).

Monaisa, Tshego Poetry of Love 154pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Mukwevho, Tshifhiwa Given A Traumatic Revenge 103pp Timbila Project (Elim Hospital) [short stories].

Munsamy, Vasigie Sunken Treasure 160pp Reach Publishers (Wandsbeck).

Mzamane, Mbulelo Children of Paradise vii+116pp Univ KwaZulu-Natal Press (Pietermaritzburg) [short stories].

Nataniël Nicky & Lou 208pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [short stories; text in Afrikaans and English].

Nel, Paul The Law of Douglas van Yssen 644pp Scamp Fiction (Noordhoek).

Nick, Paige This Way Up 335pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Nicol, Mike Black Heart 334pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Omotoso, Yewande Bom Boy 255pp Modjaji Books (Cape Town).

Orford, Margie Gallows Hill 349pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

Parkes, Richard Letters from the Colony 320pp Antony Rowe Publishing (Eastbourne, UK).

Partridge, Sally-Ann Dark Poppy’s Demise 183pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Pearce, Gerda Long Lies the Shadow 306pp Maia (London).

Penny, Sarah The Lies We Shared 339pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Piercey, Cynthia On the Wings of a Dream 229pp Dorrance (Pittsburgh, Pa).

Preller, Gustav The Twelfth Delegate 272pp Pegasus (Cambridge, UK).

Rabie, Sue Fallout 255pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town).

Reisenberger, Azila Talit The Other Booker Prize v+287pp Pretext in association with Green Sea Publishers (Claremont).

Rorke, Fleur The Call: A True Story of Love and Courage 374pp Osborne Porter Literary Services (Westville).

Rose-Innes, Henrietta Nineveh 207pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Salie, Jasmina Family Feud 330pp Just Done Productions (Durban).

Schmahmann, David Ivory from Paradise 348pp Academy Chicago (Chicago, Ill).

Scholtz, Pieter The Tree Whisperer 118pp Horus Publications (Durban) [for young adults].

Schutte, Gillian After Just Now 157pp Ludic Press (Highlands North).

Singh, Bhoowan Prakash When the Chalk Is Down: An Odyssey 220pp KraftMedia (KwaZulu-Natal).

Skade, Deon-Simphiwe A Series of Undesirable Events 92pp self-pub (Cape Town).

Smith, Alanagh Trace Elements 142pp New Voices (Cape Town).

Smith, Robert L. Colville A Legacy Fulfilled: A Novel on the Anglo-Boer War and a Century Later 530pp Just Done Productions (Durban).

Smith, Roger Dust Devils 298pp Serpent’s Tail (London).

Smith, Wilbur Those in Peril 386pp Macmillan (London).

Strauss, Jacques The Dubious Salvation of Jack V 232pp Jonathan Cape (London).

Streek, Frank A Success Denied: War, Heroism, Love and Loss 252pp Just Done Productions (Durban).

Thornton, Mark R. Kid Moses 119pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

Tideswell, Maggie Dark Moon 231pp All Things That Matter Press (Maine, USA).

Tlholwe, Diale Counting the Coffins 250pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Tucker, Shirley Mowat Diamonds in the Dust 179pp Athanatos (Holmen, Wis).

Uys, Pieter-Dirk as Bambi Kellerman, pseud Never Too Naked: A Thrilling Tale of Love, Lust, Loss and Life ix+293pp Zebra (Cape Town).

Vergunst, Nicolaas Knot of Stone: The Day That Changed South Africa’s History iv+437pp Arena Books (Bury St Edmunds, UK).

Vladislavic, Ivan Double Negative: A Novel 204pp Umuzi (Cape Town) [orig pub with TJ by David Goldblatt, 2010].

— A Labour of Moles 43pp Sylph Editions (London) [short stories].

Wesizwe, Hilux Nice Skull Decoration 70pp North Shield Publishing (North Shield, UK).

Westby-Nunn, Terry The Sea of Wise Insects 320pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

White, Kathryn Things I Thought I Knew 237pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Translations

Barnard, Chris Bundu trans from Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns 205pp Umuzi (Cape Town) [novel].

Korf, Kobie The Heart of Nelson Mandela: His Life in Poetry trans from Afrikaans by Nico Jacobs 66pp self-pub (Pietermaritzburg).

Meyer, Deon Trackers trans from Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers 488pp Atlantic Monthly Press (New York) [novel].

Van Heerden, Etienne 30 Nights in Amsterdam trans from Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns 453pp Penguin (Johannesburg) [novel].

Vos, Cas Duskant die Donker / Before It Darkens trans from Afrikaans by Leon de Kock 127pp Protea Boekhuis (Pretoria) [poetry in English and Afrikaans].

Anthologies

10 Plays from Argentina & South Africa ed Ellie Robins and Nikki Froneman 405pp Proyecto 34ºS (George).

African Pens 2011: New Writing from Southern Africa select J.M. Coetzee xiv+288pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park) [short stories].

African Roar 2011: An Annual Anthology of African Authors ed Emmanuel Sigauke and Ivor W. Hartmann 1 vol StoryTime (Milton Keynes, UK) [short stories; includes Zukiswa Wanner and Hajira Amla].

Belly of Fire: An Anthology of Hope, Forgiveness, Redemption and Reawakening comp Shafinaaz Hassim 133pp WordFire Press (Crown Mines) [multi-genre].

Bloody Parchment; Volume 1, 2011 ed Nerine Dorman 54pp Bloody Parchment in collaboration with South African HorrorFest (n.p.) [short stories].

Bookmark: Ecca Poets Brian Walter, Norman Morrissey, Laura Kirsten, Mzi Mahola, Quentin Hogge, Mariss Everitt and Cathal Lagan 57pp Ecca (Hogsback) in collaboration with Seaberg (Port Elizabeth).

Breaking the Silence: Love & Revolution POWA Women’s Writing Project 2010 ix+153pp Fanele (Auckland Park) [multi-genre; includes text in Zulu and Venda].

The Edge of Things: South African Short Fiction select Arja Salafranca 279pp Dye Hard (Sandton) [short stories].

A Fire that Blazed in the Ocean: Gandhi and the Poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909-1911 introd and trans by Surendra Bhana and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt 213pp Promilla and Co. in association with Bibliophile South Asia (New Delhi; Chicago).

The Granta Book of the African Short Story ed Helon Habila xv+378pp Granta (London) [includes Henrietta Rose-Innes, Ivan Vladislavic, Zoë Wicomb, Alex La Guma and Milly Jafta].

The Ground’s Ear: Contemporary Verse from Southern Africa ed Frederick de Jager 191pp QuickFox (Cape Town).

I Write Who I Am: An Anthology of Upstart Poems comp and ed Harry Owen 122pp Poets Printery (East London) [by young adults].

Imagine Africa ed Breyten Breytenbach vi+232pp Pirogue (New York) [multi-genre].

Letter to South Africa: Poets Calling the State to Order William Anker and others 174pp Umuzi (Cape Town) .

New South African Playscripts comp and ed Emma Durden 320pp Twist Theatre Development Projects (Durban).

Novel-Script Project 2011: Playscripts intro Kobus Moolman 93pp Twist Theatre Development Projects (Durban).

Reader Digest: Poetry & Recipes comp Pravasan Pillay and Victoria Williams 31 leaves Tearoom Books (Stockholm) [includes Haidee Kruger, Eva Jackson, Anton Krueger and Gary Cummiskey].

SA Gay Plays; 1: The Artscape Dublin Festival Plays comp Robin Malan 298pp Junkets (Cape Town).

Short, Sharp & Snappy; 1: Southern African Plays for High Schools comp Robin Malan and Colleen Moroukian 200pp Junkets (Cape Town)

Short, Sharp & Snappy; 2: Southern African Plays for High Schools comp Robin Malan and Colleen Moroukian 198pp Junkets (Cape Town).

Small Town, Big Voice: An Anthology comp Andrew Renard 76pp Cadar Printers (Port Elizabeth) [poetry].

The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology 2011 comp Liesl Jobson xi+135pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

To See the Mountain and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing, 2011 intro Nick Elam 215pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park) [short stories; includes Tim Keegan, David Medalie, Ken Barris and Alex Smith].

Tyhini 2011 ed Robert Berold 202pp Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes Univ (Grahamstown) [multi-genre].

Criticism

General Studies

Becoming Worthy Ancestors: Archive, Public Deliberation and Identity in South Africa ed Xolela Mangcu xv+168pp Wits Univ Press (Johannesburg).

“Beyond the Miracle: Trends in South African Theatre and Performance after 1994” Johann van Heerden Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance pp85-112 [see this section].

“Breaking the Silence: Black and White Women’s Writing” Eva Hunter and Siphokazi Jonas SA Lit pp97-118 [see this section].

British and African Literature in Transnational Context Simon Lewis ix+257pp Univ Press Florida (Gainesville, Fla).

The Classics and South African Identities Michael Lambert 160pp Bristol Classical Press (London).

“Cultural Identity and Rewriting the Past: Contemporary South African Literature(s)” Monika Reif-Huelser Voice and Memory pp109-26 [see this section].

“The Dilemma of the African Body as a Site of Performance in the Context of Western Training” Samuel Ravengai Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance pp35-60 [see this section].

Early Black South African Writing in English Bernth Lindfors x+256pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

Emerging Traditions: Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English Vicki Briault Manus xl+308pp Lexington Books (Lanham, Md).

“The End of ‘South African’ Literary History? Judging ‘National’ Fiction in a Transnational Era” Leon de Kock SA Lit pp19-49 [see this section].

The Ethics of Dissident Desire in Southern African Writing Dobrota Pucherová 169pp Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (Trier).

Exit: Endings and New Beginnings in Literature and Life ed Stefan Helgesson xiii+315pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

“Expanding ‘South Africanness’: Debut Novels” Margaret Lenta SA Lit pp50-68 [see this section].

“Family Albums and Statements from the Dock of History: Autobiographical Writing 1999-2009” Annie Gagiano SA Lit pp259-82 [see this section].

“From Trance Dance to PaR: Theatre and Performance Studies in South Africa” Temple Hauptfleisch Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance pp171-89 [see this section].

“Guides to… Histories of… Who Delineates the Field? On Reading The Columbia Guide to South African Literature…” Michael Chapman English in Africa 38(3) pp131-40.

“Healing the Wounds of History: South African Indian Writing” Devarakshanam Betty Govinden SA Lit pp283-98 [see this section].

“In the Name of Trauma: Notes on Testimony, Truth Telling and the Secret of Literature in South Africa” Rosalind C. Morris Comparative Literature Studies 48(3) pp388-416.

Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature: Looking Inward Ode Ogede xvii+229pp Lexington Books (Lanham, Md).

“‘Iron on Iron’: Modernism Engaging Apartheid in Some South African Railway Poems” Laurence Wright English Studies in Africa 54(2) pp1-15.

“The Laugh of the Medusa Heard in South African Women’s Poetry” Gillian Schutte Scrutiny2 16(2) pp42-55.

“Let It Be Known: The Heritage of David Philip and the Needs of the Nation” Stanley G.M. Ridge The English Academy Review 28(1) pp134-44.

“Literature and Ecology in Southern Africa” Dan Wylie SA Lit pp353-72 [see this section].

Men in African Film & Fiction ed Lahoucine Ouzgane vii+180pp James Currey [Oxford].

“Multilingualism in Modern South African Poetry” Manfred Loimeier Voice and Memory pp98-108 [see this section].

The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 Susan Andrade ix+259pp Duke Univ Press (Durham, NC).

“On the Street with Vladislavic, Mhlongo, Moele and Others” Sally-Ann Murray pp69-96 in SA Lit: Beyond 2000 [see this section].

“The Pink Mountain: Landscapes and the Conception of a Literature of Public Action” Zakes Mda pp65-78 in Literature, the Visual Arts and Globalization in Africa and Its Diaspora ed Lokangaka Losambe and Maureen N. Eke xvii+242pp Africa World Press (Trenton NJ).

Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment ed Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey and George B. Handley xi+348pp Oxford Univ Press (Oxford).

“Postcolonial Pomosexuality: Queer/Alternative Fiction after Disgrace” Cheryl Stobie SA Lit pp335-52 [see this section].

“Reconciling Acts: Theatre beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission” Marcia Blumberg SA Lit pp137-58 [see this section].

“Reconsidering South African Indian Fiction Postapartheid” Ronit Frenkel Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp1-16.

“Representing the African Diaspora: Coetzee, Breytenbach, Gordimer, Mda, Pinnock” J.U. Jacobs SA Lit pp315-34 [see this section].

“The Road That Calls: From Poor Theatre to Theatre of Excess” Miki Flockemann SA Lit pp159-76 [see this section].

“The Role of Arts Festivals in Developing and Promoting Street Theatre in South Africa” Bett Pacey South African Theatre Journal 24(3) pp227-44.

SA Lit: Beyond 2000 ed Michael Chapman and Margaret Lenta ix+405pp Univ KwaZulu-Natal Press (Scottsville).

Savage Songs & Wild Romances: Settler Poetry and the Indigene, 1830-1880 John O’Leary xxviii+196pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

“‘Sequestered from the Winds of History’: Poetry and Politics” Michael Chapman SA Lit pp177-202 [see this section].

“Striding Out: Emergent Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance” Kene Igweonu Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance pp17-33 [see this section].

“The Tall Tale of Tall Horse: The Illusion (or Manifestation) of African Cultural and Traditional Aesthetics in Hybrid Performances” Petrus du Preez Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance pp139-70 [see this section].

This Is What I’m Made of: Landscape in South African Literature: An Exhibition by the National English Literary Museum comp Thomas Jeffery 62pp National English Literary Museum (Grahamstown).

Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance ed Kene Igweonu 474pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

Voice and Memory: Indigenous Imagination and Expression: Proceedings of the 2008 Chotro Conference on Indigenous Languages, Culture and Society; Vol 2 ed G.N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K.K. Chakravarty xxv+341pp Orient Blackswan (New Delhi).

Worlds in One Country: A Brief Survey of South African Writing: Nineteenth Century to 1994 Denis Hirson xii+148pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 ed Adrien Delmas and Nigel Penn xxxi+364pp UCT Press (Cape Town).

Studies on Individual Writers

Abrahams, Peter “An Interview with Peter Abrahams: Custodian and Conscience of the Pan-African Movement” Hopeton S. Dunn Critical Arts 25(4) pp500-13.

— “Peter Abrahams: The ‘Essential’ Message in His Literary Works and Artistic Vision” Mawuena Logan Critical Arts 25(4) pp514-28.

Bambanani Women’s Group “Conquering AIDS through Narrative: ‘Longlife Positive HIV Stories’” Felicity Horne English Studies in Africa 54(2) pp71-87.

Behr, Mark “The Homoerotics of Nationalism: White Male-on-Male Rape & the ‘Coloured’ Subject in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples” Lindsay Michael Banco Men in African Film & Fiction pp28-41 [see Criticism: General].

— “An Interview with Mark Behr” Andrew van der Vlies Safundi 12(1) pp1-26.

— “The Naïve Youthful Narrator in the Literature of South African Apartheid” Daniel W. Lehman Sankofa 10 pp33-9.

Beiles, Sinclair “The First Man in Space Was a South African” Fred de Vries Ons Klyntji 112-115 pp69-80.

Bloom, Kevin “‘Tales of Ordinary Murder’: Intersections of ‘Whiteness’, Violence and Belonging in Rian Malan’s My Traitor’s Heart and Kevin Bloom’s Ways of Staying” Claire Scott The English Academy Review 28(2) pp40-51.

Boehmer, Elleke “Violence, Postcolonial Fiction, and the Limits of Sympathy” Mike Marais Studies in the Novel 43(1) pp94-114.

Breytenbach, Breyten “A ‘Spirit’ of Home and Exile: A Re-Evaluation of Breyten Breytenbach’s Memory of Snow and Dust” T. Jansen and I. Dimitriu Literator 32(3) pp1-16.

Brink, André “Black Death, White Writing: André Brink’s The Wall of the Plague as a Narrative of National Reconciliation” Giuliana Lund Safundi 12(2) pp149-77.

Buchler, Louise “Remembering You Like Something I’d Forgotten: Memory, Identity and Form in Current South African Theatre-Making” Hazel Barnes Contemporary Theatre Review 21(1) pp35-49.

Campbell, Roy “‘An Eternal Alien’: South African Autobiographical Beginnings” Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo Journal of Literary Studies 27(1) pp28-42.

The Cape Town Project “Of Africa and Things African (in Canada)” Patricia Keeny and Don Rubin South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp167-74.

Christiansë, Yvette “The Art of Looking Sideways: Articulating Silence in Yvette Christiansë’s ‘Unconfessed’” Maria Geusteyn Postamble 7(1) pp[8].

— “‘This Is Our Speech’: Voice, Body and Poetic Form in Recent South African Writing” Gabeba Baderoon Social Dynamics 37(2) pp213-27.

Coetzee, J.M. Acts of Visitation: The Narrative of J.M. Coetzee María J. López xxvii+344pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

— “Addressing the Absent Other in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron” Jennifer Wawrzinek pp103-18 in Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore ed Jennifer Wawrzinek and J.K.S. Makokha 371pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

— “Autopbiography” Grant Farred South Atlantic Quarterly 110(4) pp831-47.

— “Beckett and Coetzee: Alternative Identities” N.C.T. Meihuizen Literator 32(1) pp1-19.

— “Blasphemous Likenesses: J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals, America, and the Holocaust” Craig Smith Safundi 12(1) pp47-68.

— “Caring, Teaching, Knowing: Spivak, Coetzee and the Practice of Postcolonial Pedagogies” Jarad Zimbler Parallax 17(3) pp19-31.

— “Coetzee and Late Style: Exile within the Form” Julian Murphet Twentieth Century Literature 57(1) pp86-104.

— “Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year, Politics and the Problem of Position” Johan Geertsema Twentieth Century Literature 57(1) pp70-85.

— “Coetzee’s Lateness and the Detours of Globalization” Julian Murphet Twentieth Century Literature 57(1) pp1-8.

— “Coetzee’s Post-Colonial Diaspora” David Attwell Twentieth Century Literature 57(1) pp9-19.

— A Companion to the Works of J.M. Coetzee ed Tim Mehigan xiii+257pp Camden House (Rochester, NY).

— “Compass Commodification, and The Lives of Animals: J.M. Coetzee’s Recent Fiction” Alison Carruth pp182-99 in Postcolonial Ecologies [see Criticism: General].

— “Disasters of Youth: Coetzee and Geomodernism” Paul Sheehan Twentieth Century Literature 57(1) pp 20-33.

— “Disturbing Reading: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Problem of Evil’” Aparna Mishra Tarc Changing English 18(1) pp57-66.

— “Elizabeth Costello and the Biography of the Moral Philosopher” Ward E. Jones The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69(2) pp209-20.

— “Elizabeth Costello and the Ethics of Embodiment” Elizabeth MacFarlane New Scholar 1(1) pp57-68.

— “Feminism after Rancière: Women in J.M. Coetzee and Jeff Wall” Arne De Boever Transformations (19) pp[20].

— “Giving up Control: Narrative Authority and Animal Experience in Coetzee and Kafka” Michael O’Sullivan Mosaic 44(2) pp119-35.

— “How to ‘Rise above Mere Nationality’: Coetzee’s Novels Youth and Slow Man in the World Republic of Letters” Tonje Vold Twentieth Century Literature 57(1) pp34-53.

— “Intertextuality and the Collaborative Construction of Narrative: J.M. Coetzee’s Foe” Tisha Turk Narrative 19(3) pp295-310.

— “J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the Inevitability of ‘Realism’” Gareth Cornwell Critique 52(3) pp348-61.

— “J.M. Coetzee’s Novels of Thinking” Martin Puchner Raritan 30(4) pp1-12.

— Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory Brett Ashley Kaplan xviii+253pp Routledge (New York).

— “Maria Mouton in the Heart of the Country?” Marianne de Jong and John Hilton Journal of Literary Studies 27(2) pp91-114.

— “(N)either Afrikaner (n)or English: Cultural Cross-Over in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime” J.U. Jacobs The English Academy Review 28(1) pp39-52.

— On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject Grant Hamilton xxxiv+188pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

— “Postcolonial Problematics: A South African Case Study” Michael Chapman Research in African Literatures 42(4) pp60-71.

— “Questions of Hospitality in Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year” Arthur Rose and Chull Wang Twentieth Century Literature 57(1) pp54-69.

— “Rape and the Violence of Representation in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Carine M. Mardorossian Research in African Literatures 42(4) pp72-83.

— “Rationality, Realism, and the Poet(h)ic Problem of Otherness: J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello” David Palumbo-Liu pp[9] in Contemporary Literary Criticism; vol. 305 ed Jeffrey W. Hunter Gale (Detroit, Mich).

— “Secular Study and Suffering: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Humanities in Africa’” Katherine Hallemeier Scrutiny2 16(1) pp42-52.

— “‘Swine! The Word Still Rings in the Air’: David’s Reaction and the Perpetuation of Racial Conflict in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Danielle Tran Postamble 7(1) pp[6].

— “Sympathy with Animals and Salvation of the Soul” Jonathan Lamb Eighteenth Century 52(1) pp69-85.

— “Time, Narrative, Life, Death, & Text-Type Distinctions: The Example of Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year” H. Porter Abbott Narrative 19(2) pp187-200.

— “Time Without Beginning and End: A Philosophical Implication of ‘Waiting’ in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians” Kazuhiro Matsuura Journal of the Graduate School of Letters 6 pp39-46.

— “Towards an Archaeology of Dusklands” Hermann Wittenberg English in Africa 38(3) pp71-89.

— “Trauma, Madness, and the Ethics of Narration in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country” Susana Onega pp101-33 in The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond ed Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo-Allué xxvi+262pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

— “Unexpected Cosmopolitans: Media and Diaspora in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime” Justin Neuman Criticism 53(1) pp127-36.

— “Violence, Postcolonial Fiction, and the Limits of Sympathy” Mike Marais Studies in the Novel 43(1) pp94-114.

— “Waiting for the Barbarians: The Journey from Duty to Moral Choice” Emanuela Tegla English 60(228) pp68-91.

— “White Talk, White Writing: New Contexts for Examining Genre and Identity in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe” Holly Flint Literature Interpretation Theory 22(4) pp336-53.

Coovadia, Imraan “Learning the Cartography of Terror: South African Literature in the Post-9/11 American Classroom” M. Neelika Jayawardane Social Dynamics 37(2) pp228-47.

Dangor, Achmat “Coming Home, Coming Out: Achmat Dangor’s Journeys through Myth and Constantin Cavafy” Roger Field English Studies in Africa 54(2) pp103-17.

Davids, Nadia “Gendering Performance in At Her Feet” Nicola Cloete South African Theatre Journal 25(1) pp45-53.

— “Lifting the Veil, Breaking Silences: Muslim Women in South Africa Interrogate Multiple Marginalities” Marcia Blumberg Contemporary Theatre Review 21(1) pp20-34.

De Kok, Ingrid “Feminism and the Politics of Identity in Ingrid de Kok’s Familiar Ground” Mashudu C. Mashige Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 48(2) pp122-35.

Duiker, K. Sello “Commodity and Waste as National Allegory in Recent South African and Post-Soviet Fiction” Alla Ivanchikova Comparative Literature and Culture 13(4) pp[9].

Essop, Ahmed “South African Indian Fiction: Transformations in Ahmed Essop’s Political Ethos” Jaspal K. Singh Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp46-55.

Farber, Yael “South African Truth and Tragedy: Yael Farber’s Molora and Reconciliation Aesthetics” Glenn A. Odom Comparative Literature 63(1) pp47-63.

Feelah Sistah! Spoken Word Collective “‘Behind the Scenes’: An Exploration of the Process of Creation, Self-Production and Performance in the All-Female Spoken Word Poetry Show Body of Words” Raphael D’Abdon and Natalia Molebatsi Scrutiny2 16(2) pp56-61.

Foot Newton, Lara “Of Africa and Things African (in Canada)” Patricia Keeny and Don Rubin South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp167-74.

— “The Expanding Role of the Designer in the Creation of New Theatrical Work” Tamantha Hammerschlag South African Theatre Journal 25(1) pp5-12.

Friedman, Gary “Puppets and Adult Entertainment in South Africa: A Tale of a Tentative Start, Evolving Prejudices, New and Lost Opportunities, and a Fresh Momentum” Marie Kruger South African Theatre Journal 25(1) pp13-34.

Fugard, Athol “A White Man in Exile: The Failure of Masculinity in Athol Fugard’s Sorrows and Rejoicings” Anton Krueger South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp119-28.

— “Opposing Methods of Attaining Freedom: The Teacher-Student Clash in Fugard’s My Children! My Africa!” Eric Sterling English Studies in Africa 54(2) pp55-70.

— “Tsotsi Transformed: Retooling Athol Fugard for the Thabo Mbeki Era” Daniel W. Lehman Research in African Literatures 42(1) pp87-101.

— “‘When We Remembered Zion’: The Oscar, the Tsotsi, and the Contender” Daniel Lehman English in Africa 38(3) pp113-29.

Galgut, Damon “Syntax of the Self in Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room” J.U. Jacobs English in Africa 38(3) pp91-112.

Glanville, Ernest “The Early Empire Fiction of Ernest Glanville: On the Border” Gerald Monsman English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 54(3) pp315-36.

Goonam, Kesaveloo “The Pain of Racism in the Making of a ‘Coolie Doctor’” Antoinette Burton Interventions 13(2) pp212-35.

Gordimer, Nadine “Silenced by Freedom? Nadine Gordimer after Apartheid” Ileana Dimitriu SA Lit pp119-36 [see Criticism: General].

— “‘Survival Systems’ in Nadine Gordimer’s Get a Life” David Tenenbaum English Studies in Africa 54(2) pp43-54.

Govender, Neelan “Crossing the Kala Pani: Cause for ‘Celebration’ or ‘Commemoration’ 150 Years on? Portrayals of Indenture in Recent South African Writing” Lindy Stiebel Journal of Literary Studies 27(2) pp77-90.

Govender, Rubendra “Crossing the Kala Pani: Cause for ‘Celebration’ or ‘Commemoration’ 150 Years on? Portrayals of Indenture in Recent South African Writing” Lindy Stiebel Journal of Literary Studies 27(2) pp77-90.

Haggard, Henry Rider “Andrew Lang, Comparative Anthropology and the Classics in the African Romances of Rider Haggard” J.L. Hilton Akroterion (56) pp107-28.

— “‘Gladstone Bags, Shooting Boots, and Bryan & May’s Matches’: Empire, Commerce and the Imperial Romance in the Graphic’s Serialization of H. Rider Haggard’s She” Julia Reed Studies in the Novel 43(2) pp152-78.

— “Psychoanalytic Historicism: Shadow Discourse and the Gender Politics of Masochism in Ellis, Schreiner, and Haggard” John Kucich PMLA 126(1) pp88-106.

Hassim, Aziz “Crossing the Kala Pani: Cause for ‘Celebration’ or ‘Commemoration’ 150 Years on? Portrayals of Indenture in Recent South African Writing” Lindy Stiebel Journal of Literary Studies 27(2) pp77-90.

Head, Bessie “The Hell of Desire: Narrative, Identity and Utopia in A Question of Power” Clare Counihan Research in African Literatures 42(1) pp68-86.

— “Instances of Bessie Head’s Distinctive Feminism, Womanism and Africanness in Her Novels” L.J. Rafapa, A.Z. Nengome and H.S. Tshamano Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 48(2) pp112-21.

— “An ‘Internationalism of the Planted Earth’: The Literary Origins of Bessie Head’s Idea of the Village” Eleni Coundouriotis Comparative Literature Studies 48(1) pp20-43.

— “Locating Home in the Post-Colonial Movement” Hilary Kowino JALA 6(1) pp33-71.

— “A Romance That Failed: Bessie Head and Black Nationalism in 1960s South Africa” Dobrota Pucherova Research in African Literatures 42(2) pp105-24.

— “Teaching Social Justice and Diversity through South/African Stories that Challenge the Chauvinistic Fictions of Apartheid, Patriarchy, Class, Nationalism, Ethnocentrism…” Priya Narismulu Alternation 18(2) pp135-58.

Heyns, Michiel “The Naïve Youthful Narrator in the Literature of South African Apartheid” Daniel W. Lehman Sankofa 10 pp33-9.

Hood, Gavin “Tsotsi Transformed: Retooling Athol Fugard for the Thabo Mbeki Era” Daniel W. Lehman Research in African Literatures 42(1) pp87-101.

— “‘When We Remembered Zion’: The Oscar, the Tsotsi, and the Contender” Daniel Lehman English in Africa 38(3) pp113-29.

Hudson, Samuel Eusebius “Editorial Notes” Edward Hudson English in Africa 38(1) pp17-23.

— “Introduction” David Johnson English in Africa 38(1) pp9-15.

Jacobs, Rayda “Shadow Stories and Shadow Selves: Techniques of Selfhood in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light and the Autobiographical Writing of Agnes Lottering and Rayda Jacobs” M.J. Daymond Current Writing 23(2) pp157-67.

Joseph, Helen “‘An Eternal Alien’: South African Autobiographical Beginnings” Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo Journal of Literary Studies 27(1) pp28-42.

Khumalo, Fred “Facing the Stranger in the Mirror: Staged Complicities in Recent South African Performances” Miki Flockemann South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp129-41.

Khumalo, Sihle “Postcolonial Travel Accounts and Ethnic Subjectivity: Travelling through Southern Africa” L. Nas Literator 32(2) pp151-71.

Kramer, David “Animals and Nature: Mapping Storylines and Metaphors in David Kramer’s Narratives” M. Slabbert Literator 32(1) pp99-120.

Krog, Antjie “Antjie Krog: Towards a Syncretic Identity” Helize van Vuuren SA Lit pp224-42 [see Criticism: General].

— “Body, History and Mythicisation: Antjie Krog’s South African Novel, A Change of Tongue” Jürgen Lieskounig African Identities 9(2) pp133-47.

— “‘Little Perpetrators’: The South African Voice of Antjie Krog” Shannon Hengen Postcolonial Text 6(1) pp[19].

— “‘Stripping’ in English: Antjie Krog’s Poetry, Translated and Transformed” Christy Weyer Scrutiny2 16(1) pp53-65.

— “‘They Can Never Write the Landscapes Out of Their System’: Engagements with the South African Landscape” Jessica Murray Gender, Place and Culture 18(1) pp83-97.

La Guma, Alex “‘Style Is the Great Betrayer’: Socialist Realism in La Guma’s A Walk in the Night” Gareth Cornwell English Studies in Africa 54(1) pp11-20.

Labuschagne, Gurtie “The Aliwal North Concentration Camp During the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: Glimpses from an Anthology” P.A.H. Labuschagne South African Journal of Cultural History 25(1) pp46-68.

Livingstone, Douglas “‘To Say What You Are Trying to Say’: Douglas Livingstone’s Personae in A Rosary of Bone (1975b & 1983)” Tony Ullyatt Literator 32(1) pp43-71.

Lottering, Agnes “Shadow Stories and Shadow Selves: Techniques of Selfhood in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light and the Autobiographical Writing of Agnes Lottering and Rayda Jacobs” M.J. Daymond Current Writing 23(2) pp157-67.

Maart, Rozena “Daring to Speak Its Name: The Representation of a Lesbian Relationship in the Work of Rozena Maart” Jessica Murray The English Academy Review 28(2) pp52-61.

Magnet Theatre Company “Cargo: Staging Slavery at the Cape” Mark Fleishman Contemporary Theatre Review 21(1) pp8-19.

— “Facing the Stranger in the Mirror: Staged Complicities in Recent South African Performances” Miki Flockemann South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp129-41.

Mahlatsi, Teboho “The Visual Black Atlantic? Trope-(Ing) Black Identity in Yizo Yizo (1999, 2001)” Litheko Modisane Gefame 8(2) pp[14].

Maimane, Arthur “Sex, Politics and All That: An Explication of Arthur Maimane’s Hate No More” Moteane J. Melamu Marang 21 pp51-81.

Makeba, Miriam “Between Tinseltown and Sophiatown: The Double Temporality of Popular Culture in the Autobiographical Cultural Memory of Bloke Modisane and Miriam Makeba” Kgomotso Masemola Journal of Literary Studies 27(1) pp1-27.

Malan, Rian “‘Tales of Ordinary Murder’: Intersections of ‘Whiteness’, Violence and Belonging in Rian Malan’s My Traitor’s Heart and Kevin Bloom’s Ways of Staying” Claire Scott The English Academy Review 28(2) pp40-51.

Mann, Chris “Chris Mann: Belonging, the Shades, and Redemption” Nicholas Meihuizen English in Africa 38(2) pp95-108.

— “Light on Shades: Complex Constructions of Identity in the Poetry of Chris Mann” Molly Brown The English Academy Review 28(1) pp64-72.

Mann, Susan “One Rainbow, One Nation, One Tongue Singing: Whiteness in Post-Apartheid Pulp Fiction” M. West Literator 32(3) pp17-36.

Mda, Zakes Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-Apartheid South Africa Gail Fincham xxv+182pp UCT Press (Cape Town).

— “Gender Politics in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying” Thembinkosi Twalo Current Writing 23(1) pp45-56.

— “History as Unfinished Business: The Nongqawuse Episode in Modern South African Literature” Rachel Frankel Journal of Postcolonial Theory and Theology 2(2) pp[22].

— “In Place: Tourism, Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism, and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness” Byron Caminero-Santangelo pp291-306 in Postcolonial Ecologies [see Criticism: General].

— “The Pull of the Ancestors: Slavery, Apartheid, and Memory in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Cion” Yogita Goyal Research in African Literatures 42(2) pp147-69.

— “Sameness within Difference: Blurring ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Liminality in Zakes Mda’s The Bells of Amersfoort” Busuyi Mekusi pp571-97 in Spheres Public and Private: Western Genres in African Literature ed Gordon Collier x+712pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

— “Tradition and Creativity in Zakes Mda’s Cion” David Bell Exit pp57-68 [see Criticism: General].

— “Turmoil and Reconciliation in Two Novels of Zakes Mda” Daniel Gover JALA 6(1) pp72-7.

Mhlongo, Niq “Welcome to Msawawa: The Post-Apartheid Township in Niq Mhlongo’s Novels of Deception” Christopher Warnes Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47(5) pp546-57.

— “Whose History Is It Anyway? Dog Eat Dog and Mumbo Jumbo” Emma O’Shaughnessy Postamble 7(1) pp[9].

Millin, Sarah Gertrude “Keeping House: Domesticity and Disorder in Sarah Gertrude Millin’s Middle Class and The Jordans” Megan Jones English Studies in Africa 54(1) pp61-72.

Mills, John Brent “Notes on the Literary Legacy of Ambassador John Brent Mills: 1921-2009” Frikkie Botha Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 65(3/4) pp69-82.

Modisane, Bloke “‘An Eternal Alien’: South African Autobiographical Beginnings” Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo Journal of Literary Studies 27(1) pp28-42.

— “Between Tinseltown and Sophiatown: The Double Temporality of Popular Culture in the Autobiographical Cultural Memory of Bloke Modisane and Miriam Makeba” Kgomotso Masemola Journal of Literary Studies 27(1) pp1-27.

Mpe, Phaswane “Exorcising the Ghost of the Past: The Abandonment of Obsession with Apartheid in Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” L.J. Rafapa and Freddy Mahori Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 48(2) pp155-70.

— “Metafiction in Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” Elise Auvil JALA 6(1) pp137-50.

Mphahlele, Es’kia “Mokgaga wa Maupaneng: A Tribute to Zeke: 17 Dec 1919 - 27 Oct 2008” Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo English in Africa 38(2) pp9-28.

— “The New Post-Colonial Threat: Crossroads of the Metaphor and Reality: In Honour of Es’kia Mphahlele” Nhlanhla Maake The English Academy Review 28(2) pp118-28.

— “The World that Es’kia Mphahlele Made: An East African View” Dan Ojwang English in Africa 38(2) pp109-20.

Nakasa, Nat “After Exit: Exile, Creativity, and the Risk of Translation” Stefan Helgesson Exit pp95-104 [see Criticism: General].

Ndlovu, Malika “Re-Memory and an African Ecofeminist Poetic of Healing in Malika Ndlovu’s Poetry” Barbara Boswell Scrutiny2 16(2) pp32-41.

Ngcobo, Lauretta “A Metatextual Reading of the ‘Mother Africa’ Trope in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die (1990)” Polo Belina Moji Postamble 7(1) pp[7].

Nkabinde, Nkunzi Zandile “‘He Uses My Body’: Female Traditional Healers, Male Ancestors and Transgender in South Africa” Cheryl Stobie African Identities 9(2) pp149-62.

Nkala, Jonathan “Facing the Stranger in the Mirror: Staged Complicities in Recent South African Performances” Miki Flockemann South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp129-41.

Nkosi, Lewis “The Beautiful Mind of Lewis Nkosi” Phakama Mbonambi Wordsetc First Quarter pp24-31.

Otter, Steven “Postcolonial Travel Accounts and Ethnic Subjectivity: Travelling through Southern Africa” L. Nas Literator 32(2) pp151-71.

Parks, Suzan-Lori “‘Our Posteriors, Our Posterity’: The Problem of Embodiment in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus and Kara Walker’s Camptown Ladies” Arlene R. Keizer Social Dynamics 37(2) pp200-12.

— “‘Yes, I’m goin to Europe to make a mint’: The Painful Journey of Saartjie Baartman and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus” Julia Salmerón pp41-52 in She’s Leaving Home: Women’s Writing in English in a European context ed Nóra Séllei and June Waudby x+262pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt).

Paton, Alan “Colonialism, Liberalism and Identity in Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country” Catherine Akca Marang 21 pp103-18.

— “Exploring Ideology and Language in Paton’s Too Late the Phalarope (1953): A Contextual Approach” María Lirola and David Levey Scrutiny2 16(1) pp31-41.

— “‘I Will Give You the Man’: Paton’s Spirituality” Peter Alexander Scrutiny2 16(1) pp7-18.

— “Paton’s Discovery, Soyinka’s Invention” Bernth Lindfors Exit pp69-79 [see Criticism: General].

— “Paton’s Novels and the Liberal Ideal: A Construction of the ‘Liberal Ideal’ out of the Life and Work of Alan Paton” Paul Hjul and Pumeza Mdangayi Scrutiny2 16(1) pp19-30.

— “Reading Around the Law: Sentimental Construct and Cry, the Beloved Country” Jeanne-Marie Jackson Peer English 6 pp65-78.

— “Revising a Victorian Convention: Alan Paton and the Final Journey of David Livingstone” Mary Rosner English Studies in Africa 54(1) pp44-60.

Plomer, William “Alias Robert Pagan: William Plomer and the Promotion of South African Writing” Stephen Gray English in Africa 38(3) pp59-70.

Pringle, Thomas “Thomas Pringle’s ‘The Emigrant’s Cabin’ and the Invention of Settler Colonialism” Matthew Shum English in Africa 38(3) pp35-58.

Rampolokeng, Lesego “Neither History Nor Freedom Will Absolve Us: On the Ethical Dimensions of the Poetry of Lesego Rampolokeng” Khwezi Mkhize Safundi 12(2) pp179-202.

Roodt, Darrell “Beyond Agency and Victimisation: Re-Reading HIV and AIDS in African Contexts” Katarina Jungar and Elina Oinas Social Dynamics 37(2) pp248-62.

Schreiner, Olive “The Epistolary Gift, the Editorial Third-Party, Counter-Epistolaria: Rethinking the Epistolarium” Liz Stanley Life Writing 8(2) pp135-52.

— “‘How Are These Things Related That Such Deep Union Should Exist between Them All?’ The Textual Integrity of The Story of an African Farm” Tony Voss Journal of Literary Studies 27(1) pp43-64.

— “Psychoanalytic Historicism: Shadow Discourse and the Gender Politics of Masochism in Ellis, Schreiner, and Haggard” John Kucich PMLA 126(1) pp88-106.

Shukri, Ishtiyaq “Cosmopolitanism and Fictions of ‘Terror’: Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret” Jane Poyner Safundi 12(3/4) pp313-30.

— “International Geographics: Looking Out in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret” Pallavi Rastogi Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp17-30.

— “Learning the Cartography of Terror: South African Literature in the Post-9/11 American Classroom” M. Neelika Jayawardane Social Dynamics 37(2) pp228-47.

Sowden, Lewis “Kimberley and The Kimberley Train” Elwyn Jenkins Nomina Africana 25(1/2) pp67-89.

Van de Ruit, John “‘Hell’s View’: Van de Ruit’s Spud: Changing the Boys’ School Story Tradition?” J. Robertson Literator 32(2) pp33-63.

Van Graan, Mike “Facing the Stranger in the Mirror: Staged Complicities in Recent South African Performances” Miki Flockemann South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp129-41.

Vladislavic, Ivan Marginal Spaces: Reading Ivan Vladislavic ed Gerald Gaylard xvi+368pp Wits Univ Press (Johannesburg).

— “Cars, Capital and Disorder in Ivan Vladislavic’s The Exploded View and Portrait with Keys” Megan Jones Social Dynamics 37(3) pp379-93.

— “Cosmopolitanism and the Specificity of the Local in World Literature” Neil Lazarus The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 46(1) pp119-37.

Wicomb, Zoë “‘Amanuensis’ and ‘Steatopygia’: The Complexity of ‘Telling the Tale’ in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story” Minesh Dass English in Africa 38(2) pp45-60.

— “The Cape & the Cosmopolitan, or, Travels around Wicomb on a Journey to the Cederberg” Kai Easton Safundi 12(3/4) pp285-97.

— “Cape Impudence” Mark Sanders Current Writing 23(2) pp118-26.

— “Cosmopolitanism and Fictions of ‘Terror’: Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret” Jane Poyner Safundi 12(3/4) pp313-30.

— “‘Dulcie Longs for the Comfort of the Quotidian’: The Place of Everyday Life in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story” David Alvarez Current Writing 23(2) pp127-36.

— “Generation and Complicity in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light” Maria Olaussen Exit pp27-44 [see Criticism: General].

— “Glasgow’s Doulton Fountain and Postcolonial Heterotopia in ‘There’s the Bird That Never Flew’” Mariangela Palladino and John Miller Safundi 12(3/4) pp407-23.

— “The ‘Great Coloured Question’ and the Cosmopolitan: Fiction, History and Politics in David’s Story” Hugh William Macmillan and Lucy Valerie Graham Safundi 12(3/4) pp331-47.

— “A ‘Place in Which to Cry’: The Place for Race and a Home for Shame in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light” Minesh Dass Current Writing 23(2) pp137-46.

— “The Place of Nostalgia in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light” Dirk Klopper Current Writing 23(2) pp147-56.

— “The Poetics of Post-Exile as ‘Fantastical’: Watersheds in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story” Sope Maithufi The English Academy Review 28(2) pp31-9.

— “Properties of Whiteness: (Post)Apartheid Geographies in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light” Stéphane Robolin Safundi 12(3/4) pp349-71.

— “Reading Zoë Wicomb’s Cosmopolitan, Domestic and Recursive Settings” Meg Samuelson Current Writing 23(2) pp88-92.

— “Scaling the Gifberge: Cosmopolitanism, Cartography and Space in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town” Cóilín Parsons Current Writing 23(2) pp108-17.

— “Shadow Stories and Shadow Selves: Techniques of Selfhood in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light and the Autobiographical Writing of Agnes Lottering and Rayda Jacobs” M.J. Daymond Current Writing 23(2) pp157-67.

— “‘This Is Our Speech’: Voice, Body and Poetic Form in Recent South African Writing” Gabeba Baderoon Social Dynamics 37(2) pp213-27.

— “‘The Trick Lies in Repetitions’: The Politics of Genre in Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away” Julika Griem Safundi 12(3/4) pp389-406.

— “The Urge to Nowhere: Wicomb and Cosmopolitanism” Abdulrazak Gurnah Safundi 12(3/4) pp261-75.

— “Zoë Wicomb and the Cape Cosmopolitan” Dorothy Driver Current Writing 23(2) pp93-107.

— “Zoë Wicomb, Cosmopolitanism, and the Making and Unmaking of History” Pamela Scully Safundi 12(3/4) pp299-311.

— “Zoë Wicomb’s Ghosts: Uncanny Translocations in David’s Story and The One That Got Away” Virginia Richter Safundi 12(3/4) pp373-88.

— “Zoë Wicomb’s Queer Cosmopolitanisms” Andrew van der Vlies Safundi 12(3/4) pp425-44.

Wylie, Dan “Myth (De)Constructed: Some Reflections Provoked by Dan Wylie’s Book Myth of Iron: Shaka in History” Michal Lesniewski Werkwinkel 6(2) pp23-37.

Xaba, Makhosazana “‘This Is Our Speech’: Voice, Body and Poetic Form in Recent South African Writing” Gabeba Baderoon Social Dynamics 37(2) pp213-27.

Younge, Janni “Puppets and Adult Entertainment in South Africa: A Tale of a Tentative Start, Evolving Prejudices, New and Lost Opportunities, and a Fresh Momentum” Marie Kruger South African Theatre Journal 25(1) pp13-34.

Non-fiction

Bolaji, Omoseye Miscellaneous Writings 116pp New Voices (Cape Town).

Brutus, Dennis The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography ed Bernth Lindfors vii+216pp James Currey (Woodbridge, UK).

De Villiers, Dawid and Mathilda Slabbert David Kramer: A Biography 384pp Tafelberg (Cape Town).

Essop, Ahmed The Moors in the Plays of Shakespeare 122pp self-pub (Johannesburg).

Goudvis, Bertha South African Odyssey: The Autobiography of Bertha Goudvis ed Marcia Leveson xii+218pp Picador (Johannesburg) in association with Macmillan (London).

Lazar, Karen Hemispheres: Inside a Stroke 85pp Modjaji Books (Cape Town).

Lewin, Hugh Stones against the Mirror: Friendship in the Time of the South African Struggle 191pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Lyle, Anna Campbell and Teresa Mary Campbell Remembering Roy Campbell: The Memoirs of His Daughters Anna and Tess ed Judith Lütge Coullie xxvi+349pp Winged Lion Press (Hamden, Conn)].

Magona, Sindiwe From Robben Island to Bishopscourt: The Biography of Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane vii+300pp David Philip (Claremont).

Mda, Zakes Sometimes There Is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider 559pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Nicol, Mike Monkey Business: The Murder of Anni Dewani: The Facts, the Fiction, the Spin 128pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Pringle Thomas The South African Letters of Thomas Pringle ed Randolph Vigne xx+402pp Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents (Cape Town).

Solberg, Rolf Bra Gib: Father of South Africa’s Township Theatre xvii+173pp Univ KwaZulu-Natal Press (Pietermaritzburg).

Vladislavic, Ivan The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories 110pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Wylie, Dan Shaka 155pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

Journals

Special Issues

English in Africa 38(1) ed Jane Starfield: special issue South African Literary Heritage Project: Samuel Eusebius Hudson ed David Johnson and Edward Hudson 145pp.

English in Africa 38(2) ed Gareth Cornwell: special issue Es’kia Mphahlele: Teacher and Mentor ed Bhekizizwe Peterson and Anette Horn 120pp.

Journal of Literary Studies 27(3) ed Andries Oliphant and Rory Ryan: special issue Theorising African-Language Literatures in the Twenty First Century ed Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Urther Rwafa 134pp.

Safundi 12(3/4) ed Rita Barnard: special issue Zoë Wicomb, the Cape & the Cosmopolitan ed Kai Easton and Andrew van der Vlies 465pp.

Social Dynamics 37(2) ed Meg Samuelson: special issue Scripted Bodies ed Desiree Lewis pp193-319.

Twentieth Century Literature 57(1) ed Lee Zimmerman: special issue Coetzee’s Late Style ed Julian Murphet 147pp.

Introduction: Zimbabwe

This is the first year that a bibliography for Zimbabwe has appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. As it was compiled from outside of the country, it is somewhat provisional. There will surely be gaps and omissions, for which we apologise in advance. If there are significant books or studies of criticism left out, please contact the NELM.

The compilation of a country-based bibliography inevitably raises questions of nationality. This became particularly evident when not only did we need to ascertain which authors would be relevant to include under which country. The passage of authors between Zimbabwe and South Africa is frequent. Jonathan Nkula, Judy Croome and Dan Wylie are all writers raised in Zimbabwe but now living in South Africa, while John Eppel is South African born, but living in Zimbabwe. Where appropriate, authors have been included in both bibliographies.

The majority of books listed were not published in Zimbabwe. This is partially attributable to the economic conditions in the country, but also to the fact that so many Zimbabweans are living and writing in other parts of the world.

Zimbabwean authors are well represented in international anthologies of African short stories such as African Roar 2011 and The Granta Book of the African Short Story. Two anthologies dedicated to Zimbabwean fiction appeared: Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe and Writing Free. John Eppel and Julius Chingono are both known for fiction as well as poetry. Together, co-published by ’amaBooks and South African publisher, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, brings together a strong selection of each author’s recent work. Sadly, Chingono died before the book appeared. Other noteworthy poetry came from Dan Wylie, especially Sailor, a moving collection of poems exploring his complex relationship with his father and reflecting on repeated visits to his childhood home.

Jonathan Nkala is another author who is found in both the South African and Zimbabwean bibliographies. His collection of plays, Cockroach, reflects this duality. Faith in Love and The Bicycle Thief are short plays set in Zimbabwe, while the central play The Crossing is an autobiographical piece dealing with Nkala’s own journey from Zimbabwe to South Africa and his life as an illegal immigrant. Nkala and S.M. Norman have plays included in the South African anthologies aimed at schools, Short, Sharp and Snappy 1 & 2.

London based Na’ima B. Robert has written several novels for teenagers, but Far from Home is the first with an African setting. It shows two girls, twenty-five years apart, grappling with the complexities of adolescence and bound by the legacies of national and family histories. Moving between 1964 and 2000, it gives a nuanced and balanced insight into the violence and pain of the loss of land and security.

The autobiographical coming-of-age rural novel has become a familiar trope of Zimbabwean literature. This year sees two such novels. Emily Barroso’s After the Rains is set in the 1970s against the backdrop of the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. Andrea Eames’ Cry of the Go-Away Bird opens in post-independent Zimbabwe, where an idyllic childhood on a farm gives way to the complexities of growing up and of the tensions of the violent farm invasions.

George Makana Clark’s impressive debut novel The Raw Man also covers the troubled history of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe from the perspective of a working-class family. It is the story of a man’s life told in reverse, from his death on the first page to his birth on the last, and has been praised for the mixing of reality and myth.

The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu deals with the taboo topic of homosexuality as well as critiquing the corruption, prejudice and violence of contemporary Zimbabwe. Start with Me by Lilian Masitera is also a social commentary on gender issues, exploring the challenges faced by women in a patriarchal society.

Yvonne Vera explored similar themes in her fiction. A collection of critical articles on her work, Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera, is a valuable addition to the criticism. Other authors receiving substantial critical attention are Tsitsi Dangarembga, Doris Lessing and Dambudzo Marechera.

Bibliography: Zimbabwe

Poetry

Eppel, John with Julius Chingono Together: Stories and Poems xx+154pp ‘amaBooks (Bulawayo) with Univ KwaZulu-Natal Press (Pietermaritzburg).

Hwande, Patrick Echoes of Blunt Voices 76pp Veriest Solutions International (Harare).

Mutandwa, Andrew A Temporary Inconvenience 80pp AuthorHouse (Bloomington, Ind).

Kusema, Wellingtone G. Lazaruses and Divases 50pp Heritage Press (UK).

Wylie, Dan Persistence: Poetry and Images 57pp self-pub (Grahamstown).

— Sailor: Poems for My Father 70pp self-pub (Grahamstown).

Drama

Chigidi, Willie Mufaro Wena/Happiness Is a Hole 55pp College Press (Harare).

Baya, Raisedon Tomorrow’s People… and Other Plays 179pp Homegrown Arts Productions [Harare].

Nkala, Jonathan Cockroach: A Trilogy of Plays 90pp Junkets (Cape Town).

Fiction

Barroso, Emily After the Rains 404pp Matador (Leicester, UK).

Chinyamakobvu, Emmanuel Thou Shall Not Be Caught! 178pp AuthorHouse (Bloomington, Ind).

Clark, George Makana The Raw Man 323pp Jonathan Cape (London).

Croome, Judy-Ann Dancing in the Shadows of Love 154pp Aztar Press (Johannesburg) [includes short story Born beneath a Balsamic Moon].

Dhuwe, Sibusiswe, pseud Dance of the Heart 154pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Eames, Andrea The Cry of the Go-Away Bird 297pp Harvill Secker (London).

Gwagwa, Arthur Welcome to Zimbabwe 164pp The Lion Press (Coventry, UK).

Huchu, Tendai The Hairdresser of Harare v+190pp Weaver Press (Harare).

Johns, M.M. I, War: A Novel 357pp Chipmunka (Brentwood, UK).

Katiyo, Wilson Tsiga 208pp Books of Africa (UK).

Masitera, Lilian Start with Me 120pp Now I Can Play Publications (USA).

Mukichi, Masimba Highway Blues iv+102pp The Lion Press (Coventry, UK).

Robert, Na’ima B., pseud Far from Home 347pp Frances Lincoln Children’s Books (London) [for young adults].

Anthologies

African Roar 2011: An Annual Anthology of African Authors ed Emmanuel Sigauke and Ivor W. Hartmann 1 vol StoryTime (Milton Keynes, UK) [short stories; includes Ruzvidzo Stanley Mupfudza, NoViolet Bulawayo, Murenga Joseph Chikowero, Dango Mkandawire, Emmanuel Sigauke, Ivor W. Hartmann and Mbonisi P. Ncube].

The Granta Book of the African Short Story ed Helon Habila xv+378pp Granta (London) [includes Brian Chikwava, Yvonne Vera, Dambudzo Marechera and George Makana Clark].

Short, Sharp & Snappy; 1: Southern African Plays for High Schools comp Robin Malan and Colleen Moroukian 200pp Junkets (Cape Town) [includes Jonathan Nkala and S.M. Norman].

Short, Sharp & Snappy; 2: Southern African Plays for High Schools comp Robin Malan and Colleen Moroukian 198pp Junkets (Cape Town) [includes Jonathan Nkala].

To See the Mountain and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing, 2011 introd Nick Elam 215pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park) [short stories; includes NoViolet Bulawayo].

Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe ed Jane Morris 152pp ’amaBooks (Bulawayo).

Writing Free ed Irene Staunton xvi+138pp Weaver Press (Harare) [short stories].

Criticism

General Studies

British and African Literature in Transnational Context Simon Lewis ix+257pp Univ Press Florida (Gainesville, Fla).

“Citizens’ Stories, or, Theatre as Performing Citizenship in Zimbabwe” Vibeke Glørstad Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance pp243-62 [see this section).

“‘Coming Unstuck’: Masculine Identities in Post-Independence Zimbabwean Fiction” Patricia Alden Men in African Film & Fiction pp83-99 [see this section]

The Ethics of Dissident Desire in Southern African Writers Dobrota Pucherová 169pp Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (Trier).

Exit: Endings and New Beginnings in Literature and Life ed Stefan Helgesson xiii+315pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

“Interculturalism Revisited: Identity Construction in African and African-Caribbean Performance” Kene Igweonu Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance pp61-84 [see this section).

Men in African Film & Fiction ed Lahoucine Ouzgane vii+180pp James Currey (Oxford).

The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 Susan Andrade ix+259pp Duke Univ Press (Durham, NC).

“Recent Trends in the Treatment of Homosexualities in Literature & Film by African Artists” Marc Epprecht Men in African Film & Fiction pp153-63 [see this section].

“Some Notes on Ways to Read Zimbabwean Literature of the ‘Crisis’” Oliver Nyambi Postamble 7(1) pp[12].

“Strugglers and Stragglers: Imagining the ‘War Veteran’ from the 1890s to the Present in Zimbabwean Literary Discourse” Muchativugwa Liberty Hove Journal of Literary Studies 27(2) pp38-57.

Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance ed Kene Igweonu 474pp Rodopi (Amsterdam; New York).

“A Voice in the Teeth of Power: Popular Theatre under the Censorship Radar in Zimbabwe (1998-2008)” Praise Zenenga Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance pp217-42 [see this section].

Studies on Individual Writers

Buckle, Catherine “Imagining Post-2000 Zimbabwean Perceptions of Land and Notions on Identities in Catherine Buckle’s African Tears: The Zimbabwe Land Invasions” Irikidzayi Manase Journal of Literary Studies 27(2) pp26-37.

Chihota, Clement “Apemanship: A Critique of the Modernization Theory in Ngugi’s Selected Works and Clement Chihota’s ‘Shipwreck’ in No More Plastic Balls” Thamsanqa Moyo and Jairos Gonye Journal of English and Literature 2(4) pp89-95.

Chikwava, Brian “A Tree Grows in Brixton: Brian Chikwava’s Dark Adventure in Harare North” Marius Kociejowski Wasafiri 67 pp55-60.

— “Polarising Cultures, Politics and Communities and Fracturing Economies in Zimbabwean Literature” Kizito Z. Muchemwa Social Dynamics 37(3) pp394-408.

Chinodya, Shimmer “Polarising Cultures, Politics and Communities and Fracturing Economies in Zimbabwean Literature” Kizito Z. Muchemwa Social Dynamics 37(3) pp394-408.

Dangarembga, Tsitsi “Bildung in Formation and Deformation: Dangarembga and Farah” Susan Andrade The Nation Writ Small pp114-64 [see Criticism: General].

— “‘I Am Well If You Are Well’: Nervous Conditions of African Philanthropy in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Novels” Robert Muponde African Identities 9(4) pp387-400.

— “Imported Alternatives: Changing Shona Masculinities in Flame and Yellow Card” Katrina Daly Thompson Men in African Film & Fiction pp100-12 [see Criticism: General].

Farmer, Nancy “Predicting a Better Situation? Three Young Adult Speculative Fiction Texts and the Possibilities for Social Change” Abbie Ventura Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 36(1) pp89-103.

Fuller, Alexandra “Some Thoughts on the Idea of Exit in Recent African Narratives of Childhood” Richard K. Priebe Exit pp3-26 [see Criticism: General].

Gappah, Petina “‘Africa Has Erred in Its Memory’: Exploring Continuities and Discontinuities in Texts by Petina Gappah and Yvonne Vera” Jessica Murray English Studies in Africa 54(2) pp154-70.

Hove, Chenjerai “Destabilizing and Subverting Patriarchal and Eurocentric Notions of Time: An Analysis of Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors” Terrence Musanga and Anias Mutekwa Journal of Black Studies 42(8) pp1299-319.

Lessing, Doris “The Crisis of an Old Order: Gender, Sexual Relations, and Reproduction in Lessing’s The Cleft” Imke Brust Doris Lessing Studies 30(1) pp23-7.

— Doris Lessing (Contemporary World Writers) Susan Watkins 240pp Manchester Univ Press (Manchester, UK) [2010].

— “Free from the Family: Lessing, Klein, and the Unwanted Child” James Arnett Doris Lessing Studies 30(1) pp13-18.

— “(Im)Purity, Danger and the Body in Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing” Bridget Grogan English Studies in Africa 54(2) pp31-42.

— “Liberation and Taboo: Normative Sexuality in Lessing’s Fiction” Robin Visel Doris Lessing Studies 30(1) pp3-7.

— “Monstrous Children as Harbingers of Mortality: A Psychological Analysis of Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child” Daniel Sullivan and Jeff Greenberg Literature Interpretation Theory 22(2) pp113-33.

— “‘The Odd Man out in the Family?’ Queer Throwbacks and Reproductive Futurism in The Fifth Child” Mica Hilson Doris Lessing Studies 30(1) pp18-22.

— “Re-Reading Horror Stories: Maternity, Disability and Narrative in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child” Emily Clark Feminist Review 98 pp173-89.

— “The Self which Surfaces: Competing Maternal Discourses in A Proper Marriage” Sherah Wells Doris Lessing Studies 30(1) pp7-12.

— “Teaching & Reading Doris Lessing’s ‘The Antheap’” Anne Serafin pp80-7in Teaching African Literature Today: A Review ed Ernest N. Emenyonu xvi+154pp James Currey (Woodbridge, UK); HEBN (Ibadan, Nigeria).

— “The Unheroine: The Figure of the Spinster in Doris Lessing’s ‘The Trinket Box’” Irén E. Annus pp53-62 in She’s Leaving Home: Womens Writing in English in a European Context ed Nóra Séllei and June Waudby x+262pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt).

Marechera, Dambudzo “‘At the Receiving End of Severe Misunderstanding’: Dambudzo Marechera’s Representations of Authorship” Anna-Leena Toivanen Research in African Literatures 42(1) pp14-31.

— “Ideology and Dambudzo Marechera’s ‘Throne of Bayonets’” Dick Mafuba English Studies in Africa 54(1) pp105-18.

— “A Psychoanalytic Reading of Marechera’s ‘House of Hunger’, ‘The Black Insider’ and ‘Mindblast’” Mika Nyoni International Journal of English and Literature 2(4) pp83-88.

— “‘Unhappily, We Are Afraid of It’: Modernism as Deracination on the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean Stage” Samuel Ravengai South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp101-18.

— “Utopian Cosmopolitanism and the Conscious Pariah: Harare, Ramallah, Cairo” Caroline Rooney The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 46(1) pp139-55.

McCall Smith, Alexander “Detecting Outside History in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” Clare Counihan Mosaic 44(2) pp101-18.

Mhlanga, Cont “‘Unhappily, We Are Afraid of It’: Modernism as Deracination on the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean Stage” Samuel Ravengai South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp101-18.

— “‘Vele Abantu Sinjalo’: Nationhood & Ethno-Linguistic Dissent in Zimbabwean Television Drama” Nehemiah Chivandikwa and Ngonidzashe Muwonwa pp80-90 in African Theatre: Media & Performance ed David Kerr xx+154pp James Currey (Woodbridge, Suffolk).

Mungoshi, Charles L. “Polarising Cultures, Politics and Communities and Fracturing Economies in Zimbabwean Literature” Kizito Z. Muchemwa Social Dynamics 37(3) pp394-408.

— “Translating Modernity: Charles Mungoshi’s Modernist Aesthetic Space” Erik Falk Transnational Literature 4(1) pp[9].

Mutswairo, Solomon M. “Postcolonial Shona Fiction of Zimbabwe” Maurice Taonezvi Vambe Journal of Literary Studies 27(3) pp5-20.

Nkala, Jonathan “Facing the Stranger in the Mirror: Staged Complicities in Recent South African Performances” Miki Flockemann South African Theatre Journal 25(2) pp129-41.

Sinclair, Ingrid “Imported Alternatives: Changing Shona Masculinities in Flame and Yellow Card” Katrina Daly Thompson Men in African Film & Fiction pp100-12 [see Criticism: General].

— “Song and the Zimbabwean Film, ‘Flame’ (1996)” Urther Rwafa Muziki 8(1) pp47-58.

Vera, Yvonne “‘Africa Has Erred in Its Memory’: Exploring Continuities and Discontinuities in Texts by Petina Gappah and Yvonne Vera” Jessica Murray English Studies in Africa 54(2) pp154-70.

— “The African Female Writer and Her Craft: Aspects of Yvonne Vera’s Peculiar Feminist Vision” Ifeyinwa J. Ogbazi Ogirisi 8 pp67-90.

— Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera ed Helen Cousins & Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo xxx+396pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

— “Remembering the Short Stories of Yvonne Vera: A Postcolonial and Feminist Reading of Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals?” Jessica Murray Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 48(2) pp136-54.

— “Speaking for the Voiceless: Yvonne Vera’s Characters and Social Conditions” Ifeyinwa J. Ogbazi UJAH 12(2) pp109-35.

Non-fiction

Freeth, Ben Mugabe and the White African 256pp Lion Hudson (Oxford).

Fuller, Alexandra Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness 238pp Penguin (New York).

Gibbs, Susan Call of the Litany Bird: Surviving the Bush War 272pp Loose Chipping Books (Chipping Campden).

Hanssen, Kevin Jump Theatre: How to Make a Play 256pp Africalia and Jump Productions [Belgium; Zimbabwe].

Hull, Kathy For My Love of Africa 265pp Pacprint (Harare) [includes poetry].

Mhanda, Wilfred Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter xi+308pp Weaver (Harare).

Mutandwa, Grace The Power & the Glory 130pp MISA-Zimbabwe (Harare).

Saidi, Bill A Sort of Life in Journalism 100pp MISA-Zimbabwe (Harare).

Tsvangirai, Morgan At the Deep End viii+563pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Wylie, Dan Shaka 155pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).