South Africa and Zimbabwe

Introduction: South Africa

2012 was another productive year for South African writers and publishers. There was quality as well as quantity as can be seen in the literary awards. Unlike some years, when one or two novels dominate the awards, a wide range of books appeared on the various shortlists, with each of the awards so far won by a different book.

The Sunday Times Fiction Prize went to For the Mercy of Water by Karen Jayes, with Entanglement by Steven Sidley, The Unlikely Genius of Dr Cuthbert Kamazuma by Chris Wadman, The Book of War by James Whyle and The Institute for Taxi Poetry by Imraan Coovadia shortlisted. The University of Johannesburg Prize went to Life Underwater by Ken Barris. This award considers all genres, not just fiction, and curiously the only other contender was Imraan Coovadia for two different books: a novel The Institute of Taxi Poetry and a collection of essays, Transformations. The debut prize went to Entanglement by Steven Sidley, with Khalil’s Journey by Ashraf Kagee and SoPhia by Shafinaaz Hassim shortlisted. The Herman Charles Bosman Prize is also open to all genres and this year was won by a poetry collection, Groundwork by Rustum Kozain, with Life Underwater by Ken Barris and The Unlikely Genius of Dr Cuthbert Kambazuma by Chris Wadman shortlisted. André Brink’s novel Philida was not shortlisted for any of the South African awards, but made the longlist for the Man Booker Prize. Jamala Safari’s The Great Agony and Pure Laughter of the Gods was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize: Africa Region. This award is given to first books. The SANLAM Prize for Youth Literature went to Jayne Bauling for Dreaming of Light (Gold) and Neil Malherbe for The Magyar Conspiracy (Silver). Bauling was also shortlisted for the MER Prize for Best Youth Novel. This is one of the few cross-language awards; its winner was Derick van der Walt for his Afrikaans novel (not listed in the bibliography).

Human rights issues feature in many of the young adult novels. Jayne Bauling’s Dreaming of Light is a hard-hitting novel about a young man working as an illegal miner. It highlights the plight of children, often refugees, who were promised work and then trapped, unable to leave the mines. Janet Berliner died in 2012. Her last novel Swan Luka: Zimbabwe/South Africa features a young boy who loses his family through political violence in Zimbabwe and finds himself a refugee in South Africa. Robin Malan’s My Funny Brother depicts a family coming to terms with a gay son and brother. Told from the perspective of the younger sister in an otherwise supportive family, this novel gives insight into issues of homophobia and prejudice. Kagiso Lesego Molope’s This Book Betrays My Brother explores issues of sexual violence, gender inequality, loyalty and betrayal. When the narrator witnesses her beloved brother commit an act of sexual violence, she is faced with a choice between family loyalty and speaking out. Chris Ntombemhlophe Reid’s The Wounded Land shows a young traditional healer called by the ancestors to protect the land from strip-mining.

Other noteworthy novels for teenagers include Neil Malherbe’s debut The Magyar Conspiracy, a thriller about a teenage boy investigating his father’s death and uncovering a twenty-year old conspiracy. Cat Hellisen’s debut When the Sea Is Rising Red is a fairly straightforward, but highly accomplished fantasy, set in a world where magic is matter of fact, but strictly controlled. Lily Herne (mother and daughter team Sarah and Savannah Lotz) follow up their zombie apocalypse novel Deadlands with The Death of a Saint which has the main characters leave Cape Town and travel through the zombie ravaged country in search of other survivors.

Elana Bregin is best known as a writer of teenage fiction but this year has published a novel for adults. Survival Training for Lonely Hearts (one of many novels this year with quirky titles) is part wry romance, part social commentary and shows a woman embarking on internet dating and learning important lessons about life. John van de Ruit’s hugely popular Spud series blurs the boundaries between teenage and adult fiction. The final instalment Spud: Exit, Pursued by a Bear continues the pattern of the humorous diary accounts of a teenage boy, now in his final year of school. John Dobson’s Year of the Gherkin also has a humorous diary, in this case a man trying to get his life sorted out by sticking to all his new year’s resolutions. Kate Sidley’s The Agony Chef has a fictitious agony aunt, who tells her amusing story while issuing advice and recipes.

The Miracle of Crocodile Flats by Jenny Hobbs is described as an “affectionate satire” and shows the upheaval and conflict in a small town when a schoolgirl has a vision of the Virgin Mary which causes journalists, pilgrims, religious authorities and others to flock to Crocodile Flats. The Unlikely Genius of Dr Cuthbert Kambazuma by Christopher Wadman is a political satire set in Zimbabwe and shows a con artist trying to save an orphanage from being claimed by a land-hungry politician. Tanuchi Ichiban by Zinaid Meeran is a darker satire, exploring issues of identity in a novel that has been praised as “funny and subversive” and “genre-crossing”. It is set in Cape Town, twenty-five years in the future, but in a world where colonialism ended in 1820, apartheid never existed and race is not the prime marker of identity. Meeran is one of several authors who play with time and history.

Imraan Coovadia’s novel The Institute for Taxi Poetry is also set in an alternate Cape Town, in a world where the Portuguese had been the prime colonisers and Brazil is now the major world power. Described as a tragic comedy, the novel explores power, politics, poetry, and the intersecting worlds of the academic and taxi industries. For the Mercy of Water, the debut novel from Karen Jayes, is a bleak but beautifully written dystopia. It is set in the near future in a country never named, but identifiably South Africa where water has been commercialised. Wars have been fought over water and the water company in effect runs the country. A writer travels to a rural area to investigate reported atrocities by the company. The novel highlights abuse of women and children, but also how the privileged ignore the true cost of their water and comfort.

While Jayes speculates about the future, several other authors turn to the past, in many cases exploring the impact of their personal histories on protagonists. In Invisible Furies Michiel Heyns reworks The Ambassadors by Henry James. A South African reluctantly travels to Paris to encourage his friend’s son to return and take on the responsibility of the family farm. He soon finds that all is not as he expected and his mission is complicated as he must confront his own past and memories. Alistair Morgan’s The Land Within has the protagonist reluctantly returning to the Karoo farm where he grew up. Painful memories resurface, forcing him to confront the tragedies of the past and their on-going impact on his life. Eric Miyeni’s The Release is set in post-apartheid South Africa. Issues of race and identity are explored in the story of a young black man still trapped by the past. The protagonist in Dianne Awerbuck’s Home Remedies works in a museum. When DNA testing links their prize exhibit to Saartje Baartman, Baartman’s historical story of exploitation and suffering parallels the struggles of the protagonist.

André Brink’s Philida is a slave narrative set in 1832. It is based on a real incident (involving a distant ancestor of Brink) with the brief historical account expanded into a novel of suffering and the struggle to survive. Philida, a slave, risks her life by lodging a complaint against her master (and the father of her children) when he reneges on his pledge to free her. Several authors take historical events or characters as the inspiration for their fiction. Gillian Slovo tells the story of General Gordon and the siege of Khartoum in An Honourable Man, Rahla Xenopoulos explores the unsolved murder of Bubbles Schroeder in 1940s South Africa in Bubbles, Marie Heese follows up the award-winning Colour of Power with A Triple-Headed Serpent which continues the story of Theodora, Empress of Byzantium in 505 AD, while Brett Michael Innes uses The Story of Racheltjie de Beer to expand on the famous account of Racheltjie, a young girl who sacrificed herself to save her brother.

Pierre van Rooyen’s Saturdays Are Gold shows the relationship between a psychic seven-year-old girl and her protective nine-year-old brother and is an evocation of white working class life in Johannesburg in the 1940s. Journey into Darkness by father and son Llewellyn and Gareth Crocker, shows two brothers fleeing post-World-War-I Europe and trying to save a rare elephant yet finding that the darkness of war has followed them. Johan Vlok Louw’s Erik the Brave deals with the 1980s border war while James Whyle’s debut The Book of War is set during the nineteenth century frontier wars of the Eastern Cape. Bryce Courtenay’s last book, Jack of Diamonds, is set in the world of jazz and professional poker in post-depression America, Europe and Africa. Courtenay died shortly after the novel was completed.

Life Underwater by Ken Barris focuses on a family in 1960s Port Elizabeth and captures the dark undercurrents of family life, the conflicts under the surface as the three brothers tell their overlapping, and occasionally contradictory stories and struggle to escape the chains of their childhood and family. Us and Them by Rosamund Handler depicts another dysfunctional family and vain attempts to escape the past. Below Luck Level by Barbara Erasmus is the story of a woman’s complex relationship with her mother and the challenges of Alzheimers. Forget-Me-Not Blues by Marita Van der Vyver is a sweeping family saga across three generations and seven decades, with an emphasis on love, loss and secrets.

SoPhia, the highly praised debut novel from Shafinaaz Hassim explores the complexities of domestic abuse, and the secrets and lies needed to protect the family from the truth. Lessons in Husbandry by Shaida Ali encompasses many of the themes identified – a witty yet poignant novel about family, memory, loss, love and dangerous secrets, as a young woman mourns her missing sister, and wonders if it is possible for a Muslim woman to have two husbands. In Lady Limbo by Consuela Roland it is the husband who is missing. In her quest to find him, the protagonist is confronted by dark secrets and discovers that she did not know him as well as she thought. There has been disagreement among reviewers and marketers as to whether the book should be called crime fiction.

Crime fiction continues to attract writers and readers with new books by Deon Meyer, Jassy Mackenzie, Wessel Ebersohn, Andrew Brown, Amanda Coetzee, Trevor Corbett, Hamilton Wende and a reissue of novels by early crime writer, James McClure. New voices include Greg Lazarus (the husband and wife team of Greg Fried and Liza Lazarus) with a psychological thriller, and Margaret von Klemperer with an amateur detective. Rosamund Kendall moves away from her two previous novels with their medical theme and produces The Murder of Norman Ware, a witty and quirky crime novel following a murder on a golf estate. As well as addressing on-going concerns about crime and violence, much of the crime fiction deals with serious issues such as xenophobia, genetic manipulation, religious intolerance, terrorism and child soldiers.

Jamala Safari’s The Great Agony and Pure Laughter of the Gods deals with child soldiers, refugees and victims of war, following the young protagonist from the war-torn Congo to South Africa. Equally hard-hitting is Nadine Gordimer’s No Time Like the Present which shows a mixed race couple struggling to negotiate the complexities of post-apartheid South Africa. It is a dark look at the failing dream of social transformation. The novel has been praised for its content, but Gordimer’s convoluted style has provoked criticism and frustration. Poet Méira Cook’s debut novel, The House on Sugarbush Road, also set in post-apartheid Johannesburg, has been praised for its lyrical writing. It follows the interlinked stories of two families, the owners of the house and their domestic worker. Carel van der Merwe follows No Man’s Land with its sequel, Shadows. The protagonist, now living in London, middle-aged and bored, accepts an assignment that takes him back to South Africa, where he finds things have changed more than he could imagine.

Steven Sidley’s award-winning debut novel Entanglement follows an academic, a man of science and certainty, as he struggles to cope with change and a world that he cannot control. It has been highly praised as literary, intellectual, intelligent and well written. Interestingly, the novel has no South African setting, somewhat unusual for an author based here. Several other authors set their novels in different countries, but most were historical fiction, or by writers living elsewhere.

Sheila Kohler’s The Bay of Foxes is a literary thriller, set in Paris, Sardinia, and Rome in 1978, and explores the encounter between a young Ethiopian refugee and a celebrated sixty-year-old Parisian novelist. Joanne Fedler and Rosie Fiore both explore motherhood and women’s friendship. Fedler’s The Reunion, set in Australia, follows on from Secret Mother’s Business and shows a group of women on a weekend away. Fiore’s Babies in Waiting is set in England and deals with the importance of friendship for a group of pregnant women.

An impressive number of short story collections were published, with the most noteworthy being Looking for Trouble and Other Mostly Johannesburg Stories by Colleen Higgs, Love Interrupted by Reneilwe Malatji, Got No Secrets by Danila Botha, Meditations of a Non-White White by Alan Kolski Horwitz and Tales from the Graveyard by Pieter Scholtz. The anthologies show a strong interest in science fiction and horror with AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, edited by Ivor Hartmann, and Something Wicked 1: Science Fiction and Horror Anthology, edited by Joe Vaz and Vianne Venter.

There was not a lot of poetry published, but there were some very good books, including impressive debut collections from Karin Schimke and Michael Wentworth. Of the more established poets strong new collections came from Charl F. Cilliers, Stephen Gray, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Rustum Kozain, Haidee Kruger, Karen Press, Lesego Rampolokeng, Azila Talit Reisenberger and Kelwyn Sole. Posthumous collections from Sinclair Beiles and Mzwandile Matiwana were produced, bringing previously unpublished works to light. Sounds of a Cowhide Drum by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali is a classic collection, first published in 1971. It is now reissued with the addition of Zulu translations of the poems. An even older classic appears in The Iliad of Homer: A Southern African Translation, where Richard Whitaker translates the Greek into South African English and idiom. Poetry anthologies of note include Africa! My Africa! An Anthology of Poems selected by Patricia Schonstein, The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology; II compiled by Liesl Jobson, Unbreaking the Rainbow: Voices of Protest from New South Africa edited by Amitabh Mitra and Donga: A Selection from the Donga Website edited by Alan Finlay and Paul Wessels. The Ecca Poets, a collective of poets from the Eastern Cape (Brian Walter, Norman Morrissey, Silke Heiss, Laura Kirsten, Alvené du Plessis, Mzi Mahola, Quentin Hogge and Cathal Lagan) produced Unplanned Hour. A group of young poets from the Free State, JahRose Jafta, Rita Chihawa and Lebo Leisa combined for Free State of Mind: A Poetry Anthology.

This was quite a good year for published plays with a number of anthologies produced: The Magnet Theatre “Migration” Plays, New South African Playscripts, 2011-2012 and SA Shorts: Quickies for a Microwave Generation: The UJ Arts & Culture Collection. Award-winning plays Abnormal Loads by Neil Coppen, Brothers in Blood by Mike van Graan and Somewhere on the Border by Anthony Akerman were published, as well as new plays The Merry Wives of Zuma by Pieter-Dirk Uys and Our Lady of Benoni by Zakes Mda. Sadly, playwright Reza de Wet passed away in 2012.

Several works of creative non-fiction were published. Rian Malan’s The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Other Stories of Africa is a collection of essays and articles written over many years as a journalist. It includes many essays previously published in 2009 in Resident Alien, a fact ignored by the publisher who hails it as his first book in twenty years. Imraan Coovadia, in addition to his novel, produced a book of essays, Transformations, exploring literature, social studies and much more. Dawn Garisch’s Eloquent Bodies is harder to categorise. Part essay, part autobiography, it brings together Garisch’s separate identities as poet, novelist and doctor in an exploration of the link between healing and creativity.

Novelist and children’s author Marguerite Poland has an autobiographical work, Taken Captive by Birds, where memories are recorded as they relate to birds. Pieter-Dirk Uys writes as his most famous stage persona, Evita Bezuidenhout to produce Evita’s Bossie Sikelela, a humorous book of recipes and anecdotes. Children’s author Beverley Naidoo turns to non-fiction with Death of an Idealist: In Search of Neil Aggett, a biography of a political activist. Novelist Lauretta Ngcobo edited Prodigal Daughters: Stories of South African Women in Exile.

There are a number of author biographies this year. Understandably J.C. Kanneyer’s J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing (translated from the Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns) has received the most attention. It is an impressive, thorough and scholarly work of critical biography, and has been highly praised by critics. Sadly Kannemeyer died just before the book appeared in print. Lover of His People: A Biography of Sol Plaatje by Seetseele Modiri Molema was written in Plaatje’s native Setswana and translated by Sekepe Matjila. Several poets are written about, with two biographies of Ingrid Jonker appearing, Ingrid Jonker: A Poet’s Life by Petrovna Metelerkamp and Ingrid Jonker: A Jacana Pocket Biography by Louise Viljoen as well as one of Thomas Pringle, Thomas Pringle: South African Pioneer, Poet and Abolitionist written by Randolph Vigne. Cornelius Thomas compiled a collection of snapshots (verbal and photographic) of Dennis Brutus, Time with Dennis Brutus: Conversations, Quotations and Snapshots 2005-2009, while a collection of essays on Don Maclennan No Other World, edited by Dan Wylie and Craig Mackenzie, came out of a conference on his life and work. Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard is a documentary film, while Nadine Gordimer: Weaving Together Fiction, Women and Politics by Denise Brahimi is a critical study of Gordimer’s writing.

The Cambridge History of South African Literature edited by David Attwell and Derek Attridge is a monumental study, bringing together many of the foremost critics in the field. While most of the 39 articles are on English literature, the other South African languages are also discussed. Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa edited by Andrew van der Vlies and Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel edited by Ewald Mengel and Michela Borzaga are also significant collections. Of the monographs Lucy Graham addresses race and rape in literature in State of Peril while Elwyn Jenkins discusses youth literature in Seedlings.

To celebrate the golden jubilee of the English Association, their journal English Academy Review brought out a special issue which republished a selection of essays taken from previous issues. These are not listed individually as they would have appeared in previous bibliographies.

Once again criticism on J.M. Coetzee dominates the Individual Studies section of the bibliography. However it is pleasing to note the wide variety of authors who are discussed, from early writers such as Olive Schreiner and Sol Plaatje to newer voices such as Lauren Beukes and Thando Mgqolozana. The vibrancy of the books included in this year’s bibliography indicates that critics will have no shortage of works to discuss in future years.

Bibliography: South Africa

Research Aids

“Don Maclennan, 1929-2009: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works, and an Overview of Manuscripts Held at the National English Literary Museum” comp Andrew Martin, Lynne Grant and Mariss Everitt pp235-49 ‘No Other World’: Essays on the Life-Work of Don Maclennan [see Criticism: Individual Studies].

Guide to Publishing in South Africa Publishers’ Association of South Africa 295pp Publishers’ Association of South Africa (Cape Town).

Poetry

Amla, Abdulla In Love’s Way 67pp Breeze Publishing (Durban).

Beiles, Sinclair The Idiot’s Voice 40pp Cold Turkey Press (Rotterdam).

Casey, Paul Home More or Less 80pp Salmon Publishing (Ireland).

Chislett, David For You or Someone like You 97pp self-pub (Johannesburg).

Cilliers, Charl J.F. Karoo: Haiku Variations 106pp Malgas Publishers (Cape Town).

Croome, Judy-Ann A Lamp at Midday 74pp Aztar Press (Johannesburg).

Dickerson, Beth Windows: Poems 63pp self-pub (Grahamstown).

Gray, Stephen Taking Off: Poems i+45pp Quartz Press (Johannesburg).

Horwitz, Allan Kolski There Are Two Birds at My Window: Poems 156pp Dye Hard (Johannesburg).

Jafta, JahRose, Rita Chihawa and Lebo Leisa Free State of Mind: A Poetry Anthology vi+63pp+DVD JahRose Productions (Bloemfontein) [text in English and Sesotho].

Kamatshana, Jobe Anthology of the Perplexed: Reflections of a Dying Man 249pp umSinsi (Durban).

Klassnik, Rauan The Moon’s Jaw 66pp Black Ocean (Boston, Mass).

Kozain, Rustum Groundwork 84pp Kwela Books with Snailpress (Cape Town).

Kruger, Haidee The Reckless Sleeper 50pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Lawrance, Clive Whimsical Notions and Darker Waters: Poems 50pp Jive Media Africa (Pietermaritzburg).

Matiwana, Mzwandile Betrayal ed Robert Berold viii+71pp Timbila Poetry Project (Elim Hospital).

McCallum, Ian Untamed: Poems from the Wild 1 vol self-pub (Cape Town).

Mtshali, Mbuyiseni Oswald Sounds of a Cowhide Drum / Imisindo

Yesigubhu Sesikhumba Senkomo xx+173pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg) [first pub 1971; parallel text in English and Zulu].

Press, Karen Slowly, As If 156pp Carcanet (Manchester).

Rampolokeng, Lesego Head on Fire: Rants, Notes, Poems, 2001-2011 175pp Deep South (Grahamstown).

Reisenberger, Azila Talit Silver Highlights 72pp Snailpress (Cape Town).

Ridgway, Lyall At a Glance: Poems vi+131pp self-pub (Port Elizabeth).

Schimke, Karin Bare & Breaking: Poems 80pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Scholtz, Pieter Living with Haiku 52pp Horus Publications (Durban).

Sole, Kelwyn Absent Tongues 76pp Hands-On Books (Cape Town).

Wentworth, Michael A Love Letter for the Epoch 67pp Khoi Gxam and the Voiceless Majority Press (Nieu-Bethesda).

Drama

Akerman, Anthony Somewhere on the Border xxxv+92pp Wits Univ Press (Johannesburg).

Coppen, Neil Abnormal Loads 99pp Junkets (Cape Town).

Maake, Nhlanhla Welcome to Twin-Dogs Party 83pp Ekaam Books (Mulbarton).

Mda, Zakes Our Lady of Benoni xxxvii+105pp Wits Univ Press (Johannesburg).

Uys, Pieter-Dirk The Merry Wives of Zuma: A Comedy about the State of a Nation ix+119pp Peninsula (Darling) with Junkets (Cape Town).

Van Graan, Mike Brothers in Blood 103pp Junkets (Cape Town).

Fiction

Ali, Shaida Kazie Lessons in Husbandry 218pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Awerbuck, Diane Home Remedies 240pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Banoobhai, Shabbir Heretic: A Novel 157pp self-pub (Cape Town).

Barris, Ken Life Underwater 227pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Bauling, Jayne Dreaming of Light 111pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Berliner, Janet Swan Luka: Zimbabwe/South Africa 136pp CreateSpace (USA) [for young adults].

Bloomberg, David Simon’s Destiny 306pp Ampersand Press (Cape Town).

Bolaji, Omoseye Tebogo and the Bacchae 1 vol Eselby Jnr (Bloemfontein).

Botha, Danila Got No Secrets: Stories 141pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Bregin, Elana Survival Training for Lonely Hearts xvi+335pp Pan Macmillan (Johannesburg).

Breytenbach, Malene Yesterday Is a Lost Country 316pp eBooks for Africa (Onrus River).

Brink, André Philida: A Novel 310pp Harvill Secker (London).

Brown, Andrew Solace 251pp Zebra (Cape Town).

Capostagno, Andy Ystervarkrivier: A Slice of Life 190pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg) [short stories].

Coetzee, Amanda Redemption Song 276pp Pan Macmillan (Johannesburg).

Cook, Méira The House on Sugarbush Road 311pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg, Canada)

Coovadia, Imraan The Institute for Taxi Poetry 217pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Corbett, Trevor R. Allegiance 287pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Courtenay, Bryce Jack of Diamonds 711pp Viking (Camberwell, Aus).

Crocker, Gareth and Llewellyn Crocker Journey from Darkness 311pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Dobson, John Year of the Gherkin 266pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Dorman, Nerine Inkarna 285pp Dark Continents Publishing (Tiskilwa, Ill).

Dyer, Dorothy Two-Faced Friends 144pp Cover2Cover Books (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Ebersohn, Wessel The Top Prisoner of C-Max: A Novel 269pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Erasmus, Barbara Below Luck Level 217pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Fedler, Joanne The Reunion xii+308pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Fiore, Rosie Babies in Waiting 458pp Quercus (London).

Freer, Dave Dog and Dragon x+286pp Baen (Riverdale, NY).

Glanville Ernest South African Border Life: Tales of Unrest ed Gerald Monsman viii+406pp ELT Press; Univ North Carolina (Greensboro, NC) [contents: The Hunter, ‘Ukutwasa’ and The Lost Heiress].

Gordimer, Nadine No Time Like the Present 421pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

Govender, Rubendra The English Major’s Daughter 172pp Bambata Publishing (Durban).

Handler, Rosemund J. Us and Them 334pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Hassim, Shafinaaz SoPhia: A Novel 252pp WordFlute Press (Crown Mines).

Heese, Marié A Triple-Headed Serpent 360pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town).

Hellisen, Cat When the Sea Is Rising Red 296pp Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York) [for young adults].

Herne, Lily, pseud Death of a Saint: A Mall Rats Novel 346pp Penguin (Johannesburg) [for young adults].

Heyns, Michiel Invisible Furies: A Novel 296pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

Higgs, Colleen Looking for Trouble and Other Mostly Johannesburg Stories v+79pp Hands-On Books (Cape Town).

Hobbs, Jenny The Miracle of Crocodile Flats: An Affectionate Satire 304pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Horwitz, Allan Kolski Meditations of a Non-White White 272pp Dye Hard (Johannesburg) [short stories].

Hoyle, Gisela When the Turaco Calls 400pp Fledgling Press (Edinburgh).

Innes, Brett Michael The Story of Racheltjie de Beer 286pp Naledi (Cape Town).

Jayes, Karen For the Mercy of Water 284pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Kagee, Ashraf Khalil’s Journey 238pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Kendal, Rosamund The Murder of Norman Ware 225pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Kohler, Sheila The Bay of Foxes: A Novel 209pp Penguin (London).

Krummeck, Peter Adam & Luke: Two Novellas 207pp Junkets (Cape Town) [contents: Adam van Eeden and According to Luke].

Lazarus, Greg, pseud When in Broad Daylight I Open My Eyes 258pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Lesebo, Amantle, pseud Prince of Her Heart 155pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Louw, Johan Vlok Eric the Brave 176pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Mackenzie, Jassy Pale Horses 255pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Make, Louise N. Dreams and Desires 155pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Malan, Robin My Funny Brother 164pp Junkets (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Malatji, Reneilwe Love Interrupted 221pp Modjaji (Cape Town) [short stories].

Malherbe, Neil The Magyar Conspiracy 175pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Matsha, Kholo, pseud The Reluctant Princess 143pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Mazantsi, Sivuyile and Sam Roth Too Young to Die 135pp Cover2Cover Books (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Meeran, Zinaid Tanuki Ichiban xii+362pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Miyeni, Eric The Release 174pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Molope, Kagiso Lesego This Book Betrays My Brother 189pp Oxford Univ Press (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Morgan, Alistair The Land Within 155pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Moumakwa, Segametsi The Set Up 149pp BK Publishing (Pretoria).

Nondzimba, Zanele From the First Kiss 154pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Nudelman, Jill Inheriting the Earth vii+320pp UKZN Press (Pietermaritzburg).

Parkin, Gaile When Hoopoes Go to Heaven 328pp Corvus (London).

Proctor, Elaine Rhumba 247pp Quercus (London).

Radmann, Christopher Held Up 384pp Headline Review (London).

Reid, Chris Ntombemhlophe The Wounded Land 104pp Phupha Press (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Roberts, David One Man’s Shadow 324pp Olive Tree Publishers (Johannesburg).

Roland, Consuelo Lady Limbo xii+440pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Rossi, Gina The Wild Heart 346pp The Wild Rose Press (Adams Basin, NY).

Safari, Jamala The Great Agony and Pure Laughter of the Gods 208pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Scholtz, Pieter Tales from the Graveyard 112pp Horus Publications (Durban) [short stories].

Shale, Mokopi Written in the Stars 156pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Sidley, Kate The Agony Chef: Recipes and Advice for Life’s Pickles and Predicaments 156pp Pan Macmillan (Johannesburg).

Sidley, Steven Boykey Entanglement: A Novel 221pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

Slovo, Gillian An Honourable Man 341pp Virago (London).

Tidhar, Lavie Osama: A Novel 302pp Solaris (Oxford).

Van de Ruit, John Spud: Exit, Pursued by a Bear 415pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Van der Merwe, Carel Shadow 254pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Van Rooyen, Pierre Saturdays Are Gold 376pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Von Klemperer, Margaret Just a Dead Man 249pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Wadman, Christopher The Unlikely Genius of Dr Cuthbert Kambazuma 299pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

Wende, Hamilton Only the Dead 420pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Whyle, James The Book of War ix+280pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Xenopoulos, Rahla Bubbles 238pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Translations

Homer The Iliad of Homer: A Southern African Translation trans from Greek by Richard Whitaker 528pp New Voices (Cape Town).

Karsten, Chris The Skin Collector trans from Afrikaans by Elsa Silke and Chris Karsten 416pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [novel].

Lötter, Elbie, pseud The State vs Anna Bruwer trans from Afrikaans by Edwin Hees 230pp Kwela (Cape Town) [novel].

Maake, Nhlanhla Letters to My Sister trans from Sesotho by Mangolo a Nnake 93pp Ekaam Books (Johannesburg).

Meyer, Deon 7 Days trans from Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers 343pp Hodder & Stoughton (London) [novel].

Van der Vyver, Marita Forget-Me-Not Blues trans from Afrikaans by Annelize Visser 346pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [novel].

Anthologies

Africa Inside Out: Stories, Tales and Testimonies: A Time of the Writer Anthology ed Michael Chapman viii+125pp UKZN Press with the Centre for Creative Arts (Pietermaritzburg).

Africa! My Africa! An Anthology of Poems select Patricia Schonstein 330pp African Sun Press (Cape Town).

African Violet and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2012 intro Lizzy Attree 228pp New Internationalist (Oxford); Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers ed Ivor Hartmann 405pp StoryTime (UK).

Days of Sunshine: A Collection of Short Stories Lesley Lokko and others 133pp Woman&Home SA (Johannesburg).

Donga: A Selection from the Donga Website, Active from 2000-2003 ed Alan Finlay and Paul Wessels 320pp BLeKSEM with Dye Hard Press and Botsotso Publishing (Johannesburg).

Have We Put Out the Fire? ed Joel Karabo Elliott and Harold Kolkman 1 vol+CD+DVD Shindig Awé! (n.p.) [short stories and poetry].

The Magnet Theatre “Migration” Plays comp Jennie Reznek and others 185pp Junkets with Magnet Theatre (Cape Town) [text in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa].

New South African Playscripts, 2011-2012 comp and ed Emma Durden 314pp Twist Theatre Development Projects (Durban) [parallel text in English and Zulu].

Off-the-Wall Poetry 2012 ed James A. Harrison 56pp Off-the-Wall (Cape Town).

A Poem a Day Challenge; 1 ed Zamantungwa 56pp Black Letter Media (Johannesburg).

SA Shorts: Quickies for a Microwave Generation: The UJ Arts & Culture Collection intro Ashraf Johaardien 111pp Junkets (Cape Town) with UJ Arts & Culture, Univ Johannesburg (Johannesburg) [drama].

Sai Weng Loses His Horse: Ten Interpretations of an Ancient Chinese Story ed Robert Berold 76pp Confucius Institute and School of Languages at Rhodes Univ (Grahamstown) [text in English, Chinese, Afrikaans and Xhosa].

The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology; II comp Liesl Jobson xiii+180pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Something Wicked; 1: Science Fiction & Horror Anthology ed Joe Vaz and Vianne Venter 385pp Inkless Media Publishing (Cape Town) [short stories].

Tyhini 2012 ed Paul Mason and Robert Berold 315pp Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA) at Rhodes Univ (Grahamstown) [short stories and poetry].

Unbreaking the Rainbow: Voices of Protest from New South Africa ed Amitabh Mitra 94pp Poets Printery (East London).

Unplanned Hour: Ecca Poets Brian Walter, Norman Morrissey, Silke Heiss, Laura Kirsten, Alvené du Plessis, Mzi Mahola, Quentin Hogge and Cathal Lagan 73pp Ecca (Hogsback) with Seaberg (Port Elizabeth).

Criticism

General Studies

“‘As I Lay Dying’: Facing the Past in the South African Novel after 1990” J.U. Jacobs Current Writing 24(1) pp72-87.

“Black Consciousness Poetry: Writing Against Apartheid” Thengani H. Ngwenya The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp500-22 [see this section].

“The Book in South Africa” Peter D. McDonald The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp800-17 [see this section].

“‘The Bushmen’s Letters’: |Xam Narratives of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection and Their Afterlives” Hedley Twidle The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp19-41 [see this section].

The Cambridge History of South African Literature ed David Attwell and Derek Attridge xvii+877pp Cambridge Univ Press (Cambridge).

“‘A Change of Tongue’: Questions of Translation” Leon de Kock The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp739-56 [see this section].

“Confession and Autobiography” M.J. Daymond and Andries Visagie The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp717-38 [see this section].

“‘A Continent Learns to Tell Its Story at Last’: Notes on the Caine Prize” Dobrota Pucherová Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48(1) pp13-25.

“Cultural Crossings from Africa to India: Select Travel Narratives of Indian South Africans from Durban and Cape Town, 1940s to 1990s” Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie English Academy Review 29(2) pp295-312.

Engaging with Literature of Commitment; Volume 1: Africa in the World ed Gordon Collier, Marc Delrez, Anne Fuchs and Bénédicte Ledent xxx+380pp Rodopi (Amsterdam).

“Entanglement” Imraan Coovadia Transformations pp60-73 [see Non-Fiction].

Essays on Free State Black Literature Pule Lechesa 87pp Mbali Press (Ladybrand).

“The Experimental Line in Fiction” Michael Green The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp779-99 [see this section].

“The Fabulous Fifties: Short Fiction in English” Dorothy Driver The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp387-409 [see this section].

Fiction and Truth in Transition: Writing the Present Past in South Africa and Argentina Oscar Hemer 517pp LIT Verlag (Zurich).

“Forced Removals as Sites/Sights of Historical Trauma in South African Writings of the 1980s and 1990s” Carmen Concilio Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp265-79 [see this section].

“The Function and Significance of Code-Switching in South African Poetry” Lawrie Barnes English Academy Review 29(2) pp70-86.

“Great Expectations or Paradise Lost? The London Years of the Southern African Review of Books 1987-1991” M. van Wyk Smith Current Writing 24(1) pp27-36.

The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures Archie L. Dick xvi+196pp Univ Toronto Press (Toronto).

“The Imperial Romance” Laura Chrisman The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp226-45 [see this section].

“‘In a Country Where You Couldn’t Make This Shit Up’?: Literary Non-Fiction in South Africa” Hedley Twidle Safundi 13(1/2) pp5-28.

Interviews with Effervescent Writers ed Christine Mautjana 128pp Mbali Press (Ladybrand).

Kuvaka Ukama / Building Bridges: A Tribute to Flora Veit-Wild ed Julius Heinicke, Hilmar Heister, Tobias Robert Klein and Viola Prüschenk 377pp Kalliope Paperbacks (Heidelberg).

“The Liberal Tradition in Fiction” Peter Blair The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp474-99 [see this section].

Life Is a Thriller: Investigating African Crime Fiction: Selected Papers from the 9^th International Jahnheinz Jahn Symposium, Mainz 2008 ed Anja Oed and Christine Matzke 246pp Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (Cologne).

“Lisbon, Myths and the Cape Connection” Malcolm Jack Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 66(1) pp7-18.

“Literary and Cultural Criticism in South Africa” David Johnson The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp818-37 [see this section].

“The Long and the Short of It: Reflections on ‘Form’ in Recent South African Fiction” Chris Thurman Kritika Kultura (18) pp177-96.

“The Lyric Poem during and after Apartheid” Dirk Klopper The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp587-606 [see this section].

“Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary Colonialism” Leon de Kock Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa pp50-73 [see this section].

“The Metropolitan and the Local: Douglas Blackburn, Pauline Smith, William Plomer, Herman Charles Bosman” Craig MacKenzie The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp360-79 [see this section].

“Nation, Detection and Time in Contemporary Southern African Fiction” Ranka Primorac Life Is a Thriller pp21-34 [see this section].

“Non-Fiction Booms, North and South: A Transatlantic Perspective” Rob Nixon Safundi 13(1/2) pp29-49.

“On the Tragedy of the Commoner: Elektra, Orestes, and Others in South Africa” Loren Kruger Comparative Drama 46(3) pp355-77.

“Out of the Mouths: Voices of Children in Contemporary South African Literature” Susan Mann Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp335-47 [see this section].

“Permanent Risk: When Crisis Defines a Nation’s Writing” Elleke Boehmer Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp29-46 [see this section].

“Perspectives on the South African War” Elleke Boehmer The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp246-61 [see this section].

“Popular Forms and the United Democratic Front” Peter Horn The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp523-44 [see this section].

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa ed Andrew van der Vlies xi+476pp Wits Univ Press (Johannesburg).

“Public and Private Space in Contemporary South Africa: Perspectives from Post-Apartheid Literature” Tom Penfold Journal of Southern African Studies 38(4) pp993-1006.

“Reading Through a Cold War Lens: Apartheid-Era Literature and the Global Conflict” Monica Popescu Current Writing 24(1) pp37-49.

Reflections & Retrospectives ed Ernest N. Emenyonu and Chimalum Nwankwo ix+195pp James Currey (Woodbridge, UK).

“Rethinking Religion in a Time of Trauma” Chris N. van der Merwe Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp196-215 [see this section].

“Rewriting the Nation” Rita Barnard The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp652-75 [see this section].

“The Rise of the Surface: Emerging Questions for Reading and Criticism in South Africa” Sarah Nuttall Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa pp408-21 [see this section].

Role of the Artist in Society: 24 Interviews from South Africa Ralf G. Will 206pp Xlibris (UK).

“‘The Sea Inside Us’: Narrating Self, Gender, Place and History in South African Memories of the Hajj” Gabeba Baderoon Social Dynamics 38(2) pp237-52.

Seedlings: English Children’s Reading & Writers in South Africa Elwyn Jenkins ix+235pp UNISA Press (Pretoria).

“Shades of Adamastor: The Legacy of The Lusiads” Malvern van Wyk Smith The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp117-37 [see this section].

Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On Post-Apartheid South African Culture Natasha Distiller x+245pp Wits Univ Press (Johannesburg).

South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom Brenna M. Munro xxxiii+337pp Univ Minnesota Press (Minneapolis).

“South Africa in the Global Imaginary” Andrew van der Vlies The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp697-716 [see this section].

South African Cinema 1896-2010 Martin Botha 307pp Intellect (Bristol).

“South African Social History and the New Non-Fiction” Jonathan Hyslop Safundi 13(1/2) pp59-71.

State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature Lucy Graham x+253pp Oxford Univ Press (New York).

“Theatre: Regulation, Resistance and Recovery” Loren Kruger The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp564-86 [see this section].

“‘To Retrace Your Steps’: The Power of the Past in Post-Apartheid Literature” David Medalie English Studies in Africa 55(1) pp3-15.

“Trauma and Genre in the Contemporary South African Novel” Ewald Mengel Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp143-75 [see this section].

Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel: Essays ed Ewald Mengel and Michela Borzaga xxxi+403pp Rodopi (Amsterdam).

“Whose Shakespeare? Early Black South African Engagement with Shakespeare” Brian Willan Shakespeare in Southern Africa 24 pp3-24.

“Writing in Exile” Tlhalo Raditlhalo The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp410-28 [see this section].

“Writing Settlement and Empire: The Cape after 1820” Matthew Shum The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp185-203 [see this section].

“Writing Spaces: Fiction and Non-Fiction in South Africa” Stephen Clingman Safundi 13(1/2) pp51-8.

“Writing the City after Apartheid” Michael Titlestad The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp676-94 [see this section].

“Writing the Interregnum: Literature and the Demise of Apartheid” Stephen Clingman The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp633-51 [see this section].

“Writing the Prison” Daniel Roux The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp545-63 [see this section].

“Writing Women” Meg Samuelson The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp757-78 [see this section].

“Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary Canon” Deborah Seddon Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa pp306-24 [see this section].

Studies on Individual Writers

Abrahams, Peter “Reading Subjects: Passbooks, Literature and Apartheid” Lily Saint Social Dynamics 38(1) pp117-33.

—– “Urbanism and Black Mobility in Peter Abrahams’s Mine Boy” Megan Jones Journal of Southern African Studies 38(1) pp203-15.

Bain, Andrew Geddes “‘Never Luff to Meddle mit Politics, Sir’: Errant Satire and Historical Gainsaying in A.G. Bain’s ‘Kaatje Kekkelbek, or, Life among the Hottentots’” P.R. Anderson Journal of Southern African Studies 38(1) pp217-32.

Behr, Mark “Reading the South Atlantic: Chile, South Africa, the Cold War, and Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples” Kerry Bystrom African Studies 71(1) pp1-18.

Beukes, Lauren “Dystopian Dreams from South Africa: Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland and Zoo City” Cheryl Stobie African Identities 10(4) pp367-80.

Blomkamp, Neill “Plural Ghetto: Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001), Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) and the Crisis in the Representation of Spaces in Post-Apartheid South Africa” Lorenzo Mari Prospero 17 pp265-85.

Bolaji, Omoseye Omoseye Bolaji: A Voyage around His Literary Work Ishmael Mzwandile Soqaga xix+48pp Eselby Jr (Bloemfontein).

Bosman, Herman Charles “Willemsdorp by Herman Charles Bosman: The Small-Town Locale as Fictional Vehicle for Commentary on Social and Moral Issues in the South African Historical Context” Salomé Snyman Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 49(2) pp60-71.

Breytenbach, Breyten “Prison and Solitary Confinement: Conditions and Limits of the Autobiographical Self” Isaac Ndlovu English Studies in Africa 55(1) pp16-34.

Brink, André “Colluding Strokes: Imperialistic Brutality and Affection in André Brink’s The Other Side of Silence” Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia pp139-50 in Intercultural Crossings: Conflict, Memory and Identity ed Lénia Marques, Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia and Glória Bastos 208pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt).

—– “First Lives, First Words: Camões, Magical Realism and the Limits of Invention” Hedley Twidle Scrutiny2 17(1) pp28-48.

—– “‘Something Hungry and Wild Is Still Calling’: Post-Apartheid Gothic” Mélanie Joseph-Vilain Commonwealth Essays and Studies 34(2) pp61-70.

—– “Where Boundaries Blur: André Brink as Writer, Bilingual Writer, Translator and Self-Translator” Lelanie de Roubaix pp[17] in Versatility in Translation Studies: Selected Papers of the CETRA Research Seminar in Translation Studies 2011 ed Isis Herrero and Todd Klaiman Univ Leuven (Leuven) [electronic resource].

Bruce, Alastair “Interrogations on Guilt and Amnesia in Mike Nicol’s The Ibis Tapestry, and Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce” Ken Barris English Academy Review 29(2) pp46-57.

Brutus, Dennis “Come Back, Dennis Brutus! Geoffrey Davis and the Rediscovery of Apartheid-Era South African Literature” Andrew Martin pp59-69 Engaging with Literature of Commitment [see Criticism: General].

—– “History, Progress & Prospects in the Development of African Literature: A Tribute to Dennis Brutus” Sophie Ogwude Reflections & Retrospectives pp98-107 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Guy Butler’s South Africanism: ‘Being Present Where You Are’” Laurence Wright English Academy Review 29(2) pp102-17.

Campbell, Roy “Readers and Writers in Colonial Natal, 1843-1910” Grant Christison English in Africa 39(2) pp111-33.

—– “Refracted Modernisms: Roy Campbell, Herbert Dhlomo, N.P. van Wyk Louw” Tony Voss The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp339-59 [see Criticism: General].

Christiansë, Yvette “The Layered Gaze: Reading Lesbian Desire in Selected South African Fiction” Jessica Murray Current Writing 24(1) pp88-97.

Coetzee, J.M. “Age of Iron: The Collective Dimension of Shame and of Responsibility” Emanuela Tegla Journal of Southern African Studies 38(4) pp967-80.

—– “The Art of Evasion: Writing and the State in J.M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K” Timothy Wright Journal of Literary Studies 28(3) pp55-76.

—– “Beyond Conventions: The Nomadic Smooth Space in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K” Katarzyna Karwowska Werkwinkel 7(2) pp113-34.

—– “Coetzee/Beckett” Tomasz Wiśniewski trans Miłosz Wojtyna Werkwinkel 7(2) pp103-11.

—– “Coetzee in and out of Cape Town” Imraan Coovadia Kritika Kultura (18) pp103-15.

—– “Coetzee’s Posthumanist Ethics” Calina Ciobanu Modern Fiction Studies 58(4) pp668-98.

—– “Disgrace, Historical Trauma, and the Extreme Edge of Civility” Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp243-64 [see Criticism: General].

—– “A Door Remains a Door” Arnon Grunberg Asymptote Oct pp[7].

—– “The Ethico-Politics of Autobiographical Writings: J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, Youth and Summertime” Paulina Grzęda Werkwinkel 7(2) pp77-101.

—– “Elizabeth Costello as a Socratic Figure” Richard Alan Northover English in Africa 39(1) pp37-55.

—– “Ground Zero for a Post-Moral Ethics in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Julia Kristeva’s Melancholic” Cynthia Willett Continental Philosophy Review 45(1) pp1-22.

—– “The ‘Hermeneutics of Equivocation’: Reading the Postscript in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello” Fiona Hile JASAL 12(1) pp[16].

—– “In (or From) the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee’s Anti-Pastoral” Andrew van der Vlies Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa pp166-94 [see Criticism: General].

—– “J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Selfhood” Eckard Smuts English in Africa 39(1) pp21-36.

—– “J.M. Coetzee and the Uses of Anachronism in Summertime” Anthony Uhlmann Textual Practice 26(4) pp747-61.

—– “J.M. Coetzee’s Foe and the Embodiment of Meaning” Marco Caracciolo Journal of Modern Literature 36(1) pp89-103.

—– “Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee” Patrick Denman Flanery Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa pp208-24 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Living in Disgrace without Term” Peter Horn Kritika Kultura (18) pp116-26.

—– “A Polychromatic Approach to the Rainbow Nation Today: Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor, ‘Nietverloren’ and Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee” Madeleine Laurencin Commonwealth Essays and Studies 34(2) pp51-60.

—– “Refusal to Tell: Withholding Heroines in Hawthorne, Wharton, and Coetzee” Elizabeth Alsop College Literature 39(3) pp84-105.

—– “‘Seeing the Entire World as a Foreign Land’: The Exilic Intellectual in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Fetson Kalua Scrutiny2 17(1) pp49-60.

—– “Shame as a Structure of Feeling: Rape and Prostituted Women in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Futhi Ntshingila’s Shameless” Sarah Bezan JALA 7(1) pp15-24.

—– “Singular Exceptions: Animal Instrumentality in Tolstoy and Coetzee” Jeanne-Marie Jackson English Studies in Africa 55(2) pp29-42.

—– “Speaking with a Forked Tongue: Disgrace and the Irony of Reconciliation in Postapartheid South Africa” Sohinee Roy Modern Fiction Studies 58(4) pp699-722.

—– “The Sympathetic Imagination in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime” Hilmar Heister Kuvaka Ukama / Building Bridges pp121-32 [see Criticism: General].

—– “‘To Speak of This You Would Need the Tongue of a God’: On Representing the Trauma of Township Violence” Derek Attridge Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp177-94 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Trauma Refracted: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime” David Attwell Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp283-94 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J.M. Coetzee’s Foe” Jarad Zimbler Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa pp195-207 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Ways of Transition: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Controversial Strategies for Dealing with Past Violence in Societies in Transition” Monika Reif-Hülser Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp263-82[see Criticism: General].

—– “Writing Oneself, Writing the Other: J.M. Coetzee’s Fictional Autobiography in Boyhood, Youth and Summertime” Robert Kusek Werkwinkel 7(1) pp97-116.

Dangor, Achmat “Affecting Politics: Post-Apartheid Fiction and the Limits of Trauma” Vilashini Cooppan Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp47-63 [see Criticism: General].

—– “The Indian Ocean Travels of Sheikh Yusuf and Imam Ali Ali: Literary Representations in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret and Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit” Tina Steiner Social Dynamics 38(2) pp172-83.

—– “A Polychromatic Approach to the Rainbow Nation Today: Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor, Nietverloren and Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee” Madeleine Laurencin Commonwealth Essays and Studies 34(2) pp51-60.

Davids, Nadia “‘This Woman Is Not for Burning’: Performing the Biography and Memory of Cissie Gool” Nadia Davids Social Dynamics 38(2) pp253-76.

De Kock, Leon “Lyrical Meditations on Spirituality and Sexuality: Drawing a Poetic Line” Annie Gagiano Current Writing 24(2) pp198-210.

De Kok, Ingrid “Angels of Mercy or Sullied Whores: Towards an Alternative Vision of Women and AIDS in South Africa” Felicity Horne Scrutiny2 17(1) pp12-27.

Dhlomo, H.I.E. “Refracted Modernisms: Roy Campbell, Herbert Dhlomo, N.P. van Wyk Louw” Tony Voss The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp339-59 [see Criticism: General].

Duiker, K. Sello “Archives of Troubled Childhoods in Contemporary African Fiction” Edgar Nabutanyi Postamble 7(2) pp[14].

Ewok, pseud “Spoken Word Goes Digital: New Forms of Literary Expression in Southern Africa” Ricarda de Haas Kuvaka Ukama / Building Bridges pp109-19 [see Criticism: General].

Fincher, Nellie “Three Texts and the Moral Economy of Race in South Africa, c1890-1910” Gareth Cornwell English in Africa 39(2) pp11-50.

First, Ruth “Prison and Solitary Confinement: Conditions and Limits of the Autobiographical Self” Isaac Ndlovu English Studies in Africa 55(1) pp16-34.

—– “Space, Time, Solitude: The Liberating Contradictions of Ruth First’s 117 Days” Jamie S. Scott Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp71-80 [see Criticism: General].

Fugard, Athol “Cosmological Distortion and Coherence in Tsotsi (2005): A Perspective on the Role of Miriam” Marthie Momberg Dutch Reformed Theological Journal 55(3/4) pp206-17.

—– “Fugard, Kani, Ntshona’s The Island: Antigone as South African Drama” Robert Gordon Comparative Drama 46(3) pp379-99.

—– “Ploughing the Page: An Interview with Athol Fugard” Brian Phillips Journal of Human Rights Practice 4(3) pp384-95.

—– “The Word and the Stage, or, The Intermediate Transparency in The Blood Knot by Athol Fugard” Kerry-Jane Wallart Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35(1) pp63-72.

Galgut, Damon “Brute Violence and Vulnerable Animality: A Reading of Postcoloniality, Animals, and Masculinity in Damon Galgut’s The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs” Jesse Arseneault Postcolonial Text 7(4) pp[23].

—– “‘Something Hungry and Wild Is Still Calling’: Post-Apartheid Gothic” Mélanie Joseph-Vilain Commonwealth Essays and Studies 34(2) pp61-70.

Gibbon, Perceval “Three Texts and the Moral Economy of Race in South Africa, c1890-1910” Gareth Cornwell English in Africa 39(2) pp11-50.

Glanville, Ernest “Four Fantastic Fictions” Gerald Monsman South African Border Life pp197-202 [see Fiction].

—– “Glanville’s Life and Work” Gerald Monsman South African Border Life pp1-14 [see Fiction].

—– “The Hunter as Polemical Ethno-Eco-Fiction” Gerald Monsman South African Border Life pp15-22 [see Fiction].

—– “The Lost Heiress and the Politics of Imperial War” Gerald Monsman South African Border Life pp224-32 [see Fiction].

—– “‘Ukutwasa’: Cultural Constructs and Personal Myths” Gerald Monsman South African Border Life pp143-9 [see Fiction].

Gordimer, Nadine “‘Deeply Racist, Superior and Patronising’: South African Literature Education and the ‘Gordimer Incident’” Margriet van der Waal Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa pp369-85 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Event, Exceptionalism, and the Imperceptible: The Politics of Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup” Andrea Spain Modern Fiction Studies 58(4) pp747-72.

—– Nadine Gordimer: Weaving Together Fiction, Women and Politics Denise Brahimi x+178pp UCT Press (Cape Town).

—– “The Writer as ‘Ragpicker’: The Auratic Power of the Mundane in Nadine Gordimer’s Recent Fiction” Ileana Dimitriu Current Writing 24(2) pp138-48.

Green, Michael Cawood “Historical Novel or Novel History? Michael Cawood Green’s For the Sake of Silence” Anthony Chennells English Academy Review 29(1) pp33-45.

Head, Bessie “Disclosing the Hidden: The Narration of Thoughts in Bessie Head’s Maru” Khadidiatou Diallo Commonwealth Essays and Studies 34(2) pp31-42.

—– “Interrogating Dichotomies, Reconstructing Emancipation: Bessie Head’s Vision on Gender Issues” Hellen Roselyne Shigali Reflections & Retrospectives pp122-37 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Making a ‘Home’ Elsewhere: The Letters of Bessie Head, 1963-1974” M.J. Daymond Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp153-72 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Psychological Violence in Bessie Head’s Maru & A Question of Power” Blessing Diala-Ogamba Reflections & Retrospectives pp62-85 [see Criticism: General].

Heyns, Michiel “The Public, the Private and the Power of Love: Decisive Tensions in Michiel Heyns’s The Children’s Day” Andries Wessels English in Africa 39(1) pp57-72.

Hood, Gavin “Cosmological Distortion and Coherence in Tsotsi (2005): A Perspective on the Role of Miriam” Marthie Momberg Dutch Reformed Theological Journal 55(3/4) pp206-17.

Hutchinson, Alfred “Both Sides of Alfred Hutchinson’s Road to Ghana: An Immoral Love Story with Hazel Goodwin” Stephen Gray English Academy Review 29(2) pp20-33.

Jacobs, Rayda “Rayda Jacobs’s Confessions of a Gambler as Post-Apartheid Cinema” John A. Stotesbury Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp133-40 [see Criticism: General].

Jacobson, Dan “Caritas and Habitus in Dan Jacobson’s ‘The Zulu and the Zeide’” Myrtle Hooper Inkanyiso 4(1) pp1-9.

Kani, John “Fugard, Kani, Ntshona’s The Island: Antigone as South African Drama” Robert Gordon Comparative Drama 46(3) pp379-99.

Kolb, Peter “Eighteenth-Century Natural History, Travel Writing and South African Literary Historiography” Ian Glenn The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp158-79 [see Criticism: General].

Krog, Antjie “Accounting for Language: Narrative Ethics and Economic Reparations in Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull” Dalglish Chew Safundi 13(1/2) pp91-114.

—– “The Ethics and Morality of Witnessing: On the Politics of Antjie Krog (Samuel’s) Country of My Skull” Yazir Henry Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp107-40 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Hospitality in a Postapartheid Archive: Reflections on There Was This Goat and the Challenge of Alterity” Sandra Young Research in African Literatures 43(2) pp115-37.

—– “The Khoisan Origins of the Interconnected World View in Antjie Krog’s Begging to Be Black” Michael Wessels Current Writing 24(2) pp186-97.

—– “Performing Dialogical Truth and Transitional Justice: The Role of Art in the Becoming Post-Apartheid of South Africa” Rosemarie Buikema Memory Studies 5(3) pp282-92.

—– “Sharing Haunted Spaces: The Potential for Change in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat and There Was This Goat by Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele” Eva Hunter English in Africa 39(1) pp73-90.

—– “Trauma in the Postcolony: Towards a New Theoretical Approach” Michela Borzaga Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp65-91 [see Criticism: General].

Kunene, Mazisi “Lyrical Meditations on Spirituality and Sexuality: Drawing a Poetic Line” Annie Gagiano Current Writing 24(2) pp198-210.

La Guma, Alex “Reading Subjects: Passbooks, Literature and Apartheid” Lily Saint Social Dynamics 38(1) pp117-33.

—– “The Tyranny of the Visual: Alex La Guma and the Anti-Apartheid Documentary Image” Catherine Kroll Research in African Literatures 43(3) pp54-83.

Landsman, Anne “‘Sex in the Cango’: Representations of Sexual Union as a Means of Re-Imagining Self, Other and Landscape in Anne Landsman’s The Devil’s Chimney” Stuart Thomas Current Writing 24(2) pp169-76.

Langley, Noel “Noel Langley & Co: Some South Africans in Showbiz Abroad” Stephen Gray Current Writing 24(1) pp16-26 [biographical].

Le Vaillant, François “Eighteenth-Century Natural History, Travel Writing and South African Literary Historiography” Ian Glenn The Cambridge History of South African Literature pp158-79 [see Criticism: General].

—– “The Torn Identity of a Child of Empire: François Le Vaillant’s Travels in Africa” Malcolm Jack Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 66(3) pp28-38.

Leipoldt, C. Louis “C. Louis Leipoldt and the Role of the ‘Cape Malay’ in South African Cookery” Riaan Oppelt Journal of Literary Studies 28(1) pp51-68.

Livingstone, Douglas “Douglas Livingstone’s Poetry and the (Im)Possibility of the Bioregion” Dan Wylie pp312-28 in The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place ed Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty and Karla Armbruster xiv+438pp Univ Georgia Press (Athens).

—– “Experiments in Pattern Poetry by Douglas Livingstone” Kathleen M. Coleman Literary Imagination 14(3) pp312-21.

Maclennan, Don ‘No Other World’: Essays on the Life-Work of Don Maclennan ed Dan Wylie and Craig MacKenzie 264pp Print Matters Heritage (Noordhoek).

Magona, Sindiwe “Encouraging African Literary Biographies in the Publishing Market” Dianne Shober International Journal of the Book 10(1) pp29-36.

—– “Immersive and Counter-Immersive Styles of Writing AIDS in Sindiwe Magona’s Beauty’s Gift and Kgebetli Moele’s The Book of the Dead: A Didactic Approach to Writing AIDS” Kulukazi Soldati-Kahimbaara Kritika Kultura (18) pp162-76.

—– “It Is in the Blood: Trauma and Memory in the South African Novel” Sindiwe Magona Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp93-105 [see Criticism: General].

Makholwa, Angela “Girls with Guts: Writing a South African Thriller: Angela Makholwa in Conversation” Christine Matzke Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp111-18 [interview; see Criticism: General].

—– “Girls with Guts: Writing a South African Thriller: Angela Makholwa in Conversation” Christine Matzke pp227-32 Life Is a Thriller [interview; see Criticism: General].

Manganyi, Noel Chabani “Reverie Qua Worldliness in the Wilderness Texts: The Autobiographical Fiction of Es’kia Mphahlele and N. Chabani Manganyi” Kgomotso Michael Masemola Journal of African Cultural Studies 24(1) pp55-72.

Maponya, Maishe “From Orality to Visuality: Enactments of Neo-Colonialism in The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya and Ubu and the Truth Commission by Jane Taylor” Grzegorz Koneczniak pp89-115 in The Visual and the Verbal in Film, Drama, Literature and Biography ed Miroslawa Buchholtz and Grzegorz Koneczniak 259pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt).

Mashinini, Emma “Prison and Solitary Confinement: Conditions and Limits of the Autobiographical Self” Isaac Ndlovu English Studies in Africa 55(1) pp16-34.

Matlwa, Kopano “Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut: Identity Issues in Our Faces” Ralph Goodman Current Writing 24(1) pp109-19.

—– “‘Pain Is Beauty’: The Politics of Appearance in Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut” Jessica Murray English in Africa 39(1) pp91-107.

Mda, Zakes “A Creative Partnership: The Spiritual and the Sexual in Novels by Zakes Mda” Irene Visser Current Writing 24(2) pp127-37.

Meyer, Deon “‘Old Loyalties and New Aspirations’: The Post-Apartheid Crime Fiction of Deon Meyer” Geoffrey V. Davis pp51-61 Life Is a Thriller [see Criticism: General].

—– “Writing Crime in the New South Africa: Negotiating Threat in the Novels of Deon Meyer and Margie Orford” Christopher Warnes Journal of Southern African Studies 38(4) pp981-91.

Mgqolozana, Thando “‘The Guilt of Men’: Re-Visioning the Virgin Birth in Thando Mgqolozana’s Hear Me Alone” Cheryl Stobie Current Writing 24(2) pp149-58.

Moele, Kgebetli “Immersive and Counter-Immersive Styles of Writing AIDS in Sindiwe Magona’s Beauty’s Gift and Kgebetli Moele’s The Book of the Dead: A Didactic Approach to Writing AIDS” Kulukazi Soldati-Kahimbaara Kritika Kultura (18) pp162-76.

—– “Movement, Memory, Transformation and Transition in the City: Literary Representations of Johannesburg in Post-Apartheid South African Texts” Anne Putter English Academy Review 29(2) pp58-69.

—– “Movement, Memory, Transformation, and Transition in the City: Literary Representations of Johannesburg in Post-Apartheid South African Texts” Anne Putter Kritika Kultura (18) pp149-61.

Mpe, Phaswane “Angels of Mercy or Sullied Whores: Towards an Alternative Vision of Women and AIDS in South Africa” Felicity Horne Scrutiny2 17(1) pp12-27.

—– “Narrating the Postcolonial Metropolis in Anglophone African Fiction: Chris Abani’s GraceLand and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” Hilary Dannenberg Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48(1) pp39-50.

—– “Plural Ghetto: Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001), Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) and the Crisis in the Representation of Spaces in Post-Apartheid South Africa” Lorenzo Mari Prospero 17 pp265-85.

Mphahlele, Es’kia “Es’kia Mphahlele’s Enduring Truth in Down Second Avenue” Joyce Ashuntantang Reflections & Retrospectives pp138-61 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Reverie Qua Worldliness in the Wilderness Texts: The Autobiographical Fiction of Es’kia Mphahlele and N. Chabani Manganyi” Kgomotso Michael Masemola Journal of African Cultural Studies 24(1) pp55-72.

Naidoo, Beverley “Braving the Dark in Writing for Young People” Beverley Naidoo Bookbird 50(3) pp47-54.

Nakasa, Nat “Life on the Fringe: The Early Writings of Lewis Nkosi and Nat Nakasa” Ryan Brown English in Africa 39(3) pp31-45.

Naudé, Charl-Pierre “Classical Dialogue: Allusion and Intertextuality in Charl-Pierre Naudé’s Against the Light” Jeffrey Murray Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 49(2) pp25-33.

Ndebele, Njabulo S. “Njabulo Ndebele: From Rediscovering the ‘Ordinary’ to Redefining South African ‘Renaissance’” Anne Fuchs Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp81-99 [see Criticism: General].

Newton, Lara Foot “The Politics of Hope: Engaging Lara Foot Newton’s Tshepang: The Third Testament” Marcia Blumberg Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp119-31 [see Criticism: General].

Nicol, Mike “Factual/Fictional Eye-Witnessing of the Political Transition in South Africa: Mike Nicol’s The Waiting Country: A South African Witness” Ryszard Bartnik Werkwinkel 7(1) pp117-29.

—– “Interrogations on Guilt and Amnesia in Mike Nicol’s The Ibis Tapestry, and Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce” Ken Barris English Academy Review 29(2) pp46-57.

Nkosi, Lewis “Correspondence: Linking the Private to the Public in Lewis Nkosi’s Novels” Lindy Stiebel English in Africa 39(3) pp15-30.

—– “Exile and Earthly Paradise: Counter-Critique and the Debts of Race in Lewis Nkosi” Sikhumbuzo Mngadi English in Africa 39(3) pp47-63.

—– “Lewis Nkosi: A Fragile Soul’s Quest for Home” Emily Gall English in Africa 39(3) pp65-80.

—– “Life on the Fringe: The Early Writings of Lewis Nkosi and Nat Nakasa” Ryan Brown English in Africa 39(3) pp31-45.

Ntshingila, Futhi “Shame as a Structure of Feeling: Rape and Prostituted Women in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Futhi Ntshingila’s Shameless” Sarah Bezan JALA 7(1) pp15-24.

Ntshona, Winston “Fugard, Kani, Ntshona’s The Island: Antigone as South African Drama” Robert Gordon Comparative Drama 46(3) pp379-99.

Orford, Margie “Writing Crime in the New South Africa: Negotiating Threat in the Novels of Deon Meyer and Margie Orford” Christopher Warnes Journal of Southern African Studies 38(4) pp981-91.

—– “Oprah’s Paton, or, South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering” Rita Barnard Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa pp140-63 [see Criticism: General].

Plaatje, Sol T. “‘The Fateful 13’: Sol Plaatje and the Natives’ Land Act” Elmar Lehmann Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp45-58 [see Criticism: General].

Plomer, William “‘A Spirit That Nursed a Grievance’: William Plomer’s ‘The Child of Queen Victoria’” Matthew Shum English in Africa 39(2) pp135-54.

Prince, F.T. “Poetry and Decision: F.T. Prince in September 1938” Sean Pryor Review of English Studies 63(262) pp818-40.

Pringle, Thomas “Pringle’s Pruning of Prince: The History of Mary Prince and the Question of Repetition” Jessica L. Allen Callaloo 35(2) pp509-19.

Renault, Mary “The Woman Writer in Mid-Twentieth Century Middlebrow Fiction: Conceptualizing Creativity” Victoria Stewart Journal of Modern Literature 35(1) pp21-36.

Richards, Jo-Anne “‘Nothing Like This Can Be Your Fault at Your Age’: Trauma-Narrative and the Politics of Self-Accusation in The Innocence of Roast Chicken” Jochen Petzold Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp319-33 [see Criticism: General].

Robson, Jenny “Angels of Mercy or Sullied Whores: Towards an Alternative Vision of Women and AIDS in South Africa” Felicity Horne Scrutiny2 17(1) pp12-27.

Rooke, Daphne “‘Consequential Changes’: Daphne Rooke’s Mittee in America and South Africa” Lucy Valerie Graham Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa pp121-39 [see Criticism: General].

Rose-Innes, Henrietta “The Representation of Child Deprivation in Three Contemporary African Novels: An Exploration” Jack Kearney English in Africa 39(1) pp125-44.

—– “‘Something Hungry and Wild Is Still Calling’: Post-Apartheid Gothic” Mélanie Joseph-Vilain Commonwealth Essays and Studies 34(2) pp61-70.

Schonstein, Patricia “Dark Humor: Satire, the Baroque and the Carnivalesque in Patricia Schonstein’s Banquet at Brabazan and Ingrid Winterbach’s The Elusive Moth” Heather Acott Kritika Kultura (18) pp134-48.

Schreiner, Olive “Literary Language in the Postcolony: Focus on Southern Africa” Margaret Lenta English in Africa 39(2) pp155-74.

—– “Olive Schreiner, T. Fisher Unwin and the Rise of the Short Fiction Collection in Britain” Clare Gill English Literature in Transition 55(3) pp315-38.

Scully, William Charles “Three Texts and the Moral Economy of Race in South Africa, c1890-1910” Gareth Cornwell English in Africa 39(2) pp11-50.

Serote, Mongane Wally “Liberation Struggle, Memory and Freedom in Mongane Serote’s Freedom Lament and Song” Senayon S. Olaoluwa African Identities 10(1) pp1-15.

—– “Re-Examining Apartheid Brokenness: To Every Birth Its Blood as a Literary Testament” Annie Gagiano Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp217-41 [see Criticism: General].

—– “To Every Miracle Its Gods: Mongane Wally Serote’s Gods of Our Time as a Post-Apartheid Perception of Black Experience” Brian Worsfold Engaging with Literature of Commitment pp101-10 [see Criticism: General].

Shukri, Ishtiyaq “The Indian Ocean Travels of Sheikh Yusuf and Imam Ali Ali: Literary Representations in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret and Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit” Tina Steiner Social Dynamics 38(2) pp172-83.

Slabolepszy, Paul “A Case of Art Imitating Life in Paul Slabolepszy’s Angst-Ridden Pale Natives (1994)” M.A. van Deventer Journal of English and Literature 3(8) pp188-95.

Slovo, Gillian “‘Is Not the Truth the Truth?’ The Political and the Personal in the Writings of Gillian Slovo and Jann Turner” Geoffrey V. Davis Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp295-317 [see Criticism: General].

Small, Adam “Language and Politics in the Philosophy of Adam Small: Some Personal Reflections” Michael Cloete Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 49(1) pp115-30.

Smith, Pauline “Literary Language in the Postcolony: Focus on Southern Africa” Margaret Lenta English in Africa 39(2) pp155-74.

Taylor, Jane “From Orality to Visuality: Enactments of Neo-Colonialism in The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya and Ubu and the Truth Commission by Jane Taylor” Grzegorz Koneczniak pp89-115 in The Visual and the Verbal in Film, Drama, Literature and Biography ed Miroslawa Buchholtz and Grzegorz Koneczniak 259pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt).

Themba, Can “Reading Subjects: Passbooks, Literature and Apartheid” Lily Saint Social Dynamics 38(1) pp117-33.

Turner, Jann “‘Is Not the Truth the Truth?’ The Political and the Personal in the Writings of Gillian Slovo and Jann Turner” Geoffrey V. Davis Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp295-317 [see Criticism: General].

Tyrrell, Barbara “Barbara Tyrrell’s Caravan Verse” Elwyn Jenkins Natalia 42 pp1-8.

Van Niekerk, Marlene “Sharing Haunted Spaces: The Potential for Change in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat and There Was This Goat by Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele” Eva Hunter English in Africa 39(1) pp73-90.

Vladislavic, Ivan “Interview with Ivan Vladislavic” Jan Steyn The White Review (5) pp[7].

—– “Ivan Vladislavic: Traversing the Uneven City” Pablo Mukherjee Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48(5) pp472-84.

—– “Movement, Memory, Transformation and Transition in the City: Literary Representations of Johannesburg in Post-Apartheid South African Texts” Anne Putter English Academy Review 29(2) pp58-69.

—– “Movement, Memory, Transformation, and Transition in the City: Literary Representations of Johannesburg in Post-Apartheid South African Texts” Anne Putter Kritika Kultura (18) pp149-61.

—– “So, What Should Academic Critics Be Doing, on the Edge of the Now: Skimming the Surface or Plumbing Those Depths?” Leon de Kock English Studies in Africa 55(2) pp3-17.

—– “Transculturating the Sympathetic Imagination: Unfamiliar Feelings in Ivan Vladislavic” Gerald Gaylard Current Writing 24(1) pp98-108.

Watson, Stephen “This Late Place: Stephen Watson (1954-2011), Poet, Essayist, Critic and Scholar” P.R. Anderson English in Africa 39(1) pp9-20.

Wicomb, Zoë “Replaying Trauma with a Difference: Zoë Wicomb’s Dialogic Aesthetic” Michael Meyer Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel pp349-63 [see Criticism: General].

—– “The Specter of Tokkie: Facing the Past, Inventing the Future: Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light” Anette Horn Kritika Kultura (18) pp127-33.

Winterbach, Ingrid “Dark Humor: Satire, the Baroque and the Carnivalesque in Patricia Schonstein’s Banquet at Brabazan and Ingrid Winterbach’s The Elusive Moth” Heather Acott Kritika Kultura (18) pp134-48.

Zapiro, pseud “No Small Irony: A Discourse Analysis of Zapiro’s 2010 World Cup Cartoons” Marthinus Conradie, Susan Brokensha and Marilize Pretorius Language Matters 43(1) pp39-59.

Non-fiction

Bezuidenhout, Evita Evita’s Bossie Sikelela 128pp Umuzi (Cape Town) [includes recipes].

Boniface, C.E. Narrative of the Shipwreck of the French Vessel the Eole on the Coast of Kaffraria in April 1829 trans D.J. Culpin 228pp Centre for the Book; National Library of South Africa (Cape Town).

Coovadia, Imraan Transformations: Essays 176pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Garisch, Dawn Eloquent Body xvi+265pp Modjaji (Cape Town) [essays].

Glaser, Marc The Dream of Rosita: An Exhibition of Prints by Marc Glaser (1936-2007) text Wilhelm van Rensburg xii+8pp Gallery AOP (Johannesburg).

Kannemeyer, J.C. J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing trans from Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns 710pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

Limb, Peter, ed The People’s Paper: A Centenary History and Anthology of Abantu-Batho 592pp Witwatersrand Univ Press (Johannesburg).

Malan, Rian The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Other Stories of Africa xv+317pp Grove Press (New York) [essays].

Metelerkamp, Petrovna Ingrid Jonker: A Poet’s Life trans from Afrikaans by Helga Steyn 255pp Hemel & See (Cape Town).

Molema, Seetseele Modiri Lover of His People: A Biography of Sol Plaatje trans from Setswana by Sekepe Matjila xxi+122pp Witwatersrand Univ Press (Johannesburg).

Naidoo, Beverley Death of an Idealist: In Search of Neil Aggett xix+475pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg) [biography].

Ngcobo, Lauretta, ed Prodigal Daughters: Stories of South African Women in Exile xi+211pp UKZN Press (Pietermaritzburg) [includes poetry].

Palmer, Tony, dir Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard prod Eric Abraham and David Elstein 1 DVD Portobello Pictures (n.p.) [includes extracts from selected plays].

Poland, Marguerite Taken Captive by Birds viii+143pp Penguin (Johannesburg) [autobiography].

Raphaely, Jane Jane Raphaely: Unedited 352pp Associated Media Publishing (Cape Town).

Schroder-Nielsen, Ingvar Among the Boers in Peace and War trans from Norwegian by Jalmar and Ione Rudner 225pp Africana Publishers & Booksellers (Cape Town) [includes letters and diaries].

Thomas, Cornelius, comp Time with Dennis Brutus: Conversations, Quotations and Snapshots 2005-2009 xi+86pp Wendy’s Book Lounge (East London).

Vigne, Randolph Thomas Pringle: South African Pioneer, Poet and Abolitionist xvi+270pp James Currey (Woodbridge, UK).

Viljoen, Louise Ingrid Jonker: A Jacana Pocket Biography 166pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Journals

Special Issues

English Academy Review Jun ed Michael Williams: special issue Golden Jubilee Commemorative Edition ed Rosemary Gray and others 316pp [essays published in previous issues].

English in Africa 39(2) ed Gareth Cornwell: special issue South African Literary History Project: The End of Empire and the Making of Modern South Africa ed Dirk Klopper 174pp.

English in Africa 39(3) ed Gareth Cornwell: special issue Lewis Nkosi ed Liz Gunner and Jon Soske 98pp.

Kritika Kultura (18) ed Maria Luisa F. Torres Reyes: special section Forum Kritika: The South African Novel Since 1990 ed Peter Horn and Anette Horn pp99-219.

Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 13(1/2) ed Rita Barnard and Andrew van der Vlies: special issue Beyond Rivalry: Literature/History, Fiction/Non-Fiction ed Rita Barnard 207pp.

Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 17(2) ed Deidre C. Byrne: special issue Memory: Impressions, Expressions, Reflections ed Ivan Rabinowitz 150pp.

Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies 38(2) ed Louise Green and Kylie Thomas: special section Writing Islam and the Everyday in South Africa ed Gabeba Baderoon and Louise Green pp163-76.

Werkwinkel: Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies 7(2) ed Jerzy Koch: special issue J.M. Coetzee in Poland 158pp.

Introduction: Zimbabwe

Very little in the way of Zimbabwean literature was published in 2012. Even less was published within Zimbabwe, with Mambo Press and Weaver Press seeming to be the only functioning publishers. In light of the paucity of publishing, self-published works have been included in this section. There are difficulties in compiling a bibliography such as this from a different country, so it is possible that some works have been omitted. The scarcity of reviews and criticism adds to the difficulty in commenting on the relative significance of the books.

From Where the Wind Blows: An Anthology of Modern Zimbabwean Poetry edited by Oliver Nyambi and Tendai Mangena is particularly noteworthy in the poetry section.

Shimmer Chinodya has a strong new collection of short stories Chioniso and Other Stories. Poet Tendai Mwanaka turns to fiction with his collection of stories Keys in the River: Notes from a Modern Chimurenga. Mwanaka, a Zimbabwean author living in South Africa and publishing in the USA, highlights the challenges of Zimbabwean literature.

Another author now based in South Africa is Chris Wadman. His debut novel The Unlikely Genius of Dr Cuthbert Kambazuma, a political satire, was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Prize for Fiction. Andrea Eames was shortlisted for The Dylan Thomas Prize for Writers under 30 for her second novel The White Shadow, which weaves folklore and suspense into a coming-of-age story.

No published plays could be identified.

Criticism of Zimbabwean literature was also sparse, with most of the material being on Doris Lessing. A substantial collection of essays on Dambudzo Marechera appeared: Moving Spirit: The Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21^st Century edited by Julie Cairnie and Dobrota Pucherová. Tsitsi Dangarembga, John Eppel and Yvonne Vera are the only other authors with more than one article devoted to their work. It is to be hoped that in future years there will be an increase in publishing and criticism of Zimbabwean literature.

Bibliography: Zimbabwe

Poetry

Berman, Ben Strange Borderlands 104pp Able Muse Press (San Jose, Calif).

Cooper, Ros and Nevel Vassel Zimbabwe-Jamaica Poems 87pp self-pub (Morrisville, NC).

Mawere, Munyaradzi and Vakai Machinga Companions of Life: Poems from Zimbabwe vi+84pp Langaa Research and Publishing (Bamenda, Cameroon).

Moetsabi, Titus Ungentle Touch 1 vol CreateSpace (USA).

Moyo, Njabulo African Sketches: Poems 28pp Deck Magazine with British Council (Bulawayo).

Mutanda, Peter UniverSoul Reflections: Poetry Collection 138pp Revolutionary Productions and LionheART Publishing House (UK).

Wolffe, Bart Flotsam 62pp self-pub (n.p.).

—– Touchstones, Icons & Talismans 62pp self-pub (n.p.).

—– Waking Dreams 62pp self-pub (n.p.).

Zvikaramba, Alocate Poetic Poems of Zimbabwe vi+52pp CreateSpace (USA).

Fiction

Birch, C.J. Koro 346pp CreateSpace (USA).

Breytenbach, Malene Yesterday Is a Lost Country 316pp eBooks for Africa (Onrus River).

Brown, K.K. To Feed the Sparrowhawks 344pp SalBee Publishing (UK).

Burslem, Robert The Valley of the Shadow 388pp self-pub (Sandy Cove, UK).

Chinodya, Shimmer Chioniso and Other Stories vii+180pp Weaver Press (Harare).

Chinyamakobvu, Emmanuel The Trail of a Promiscuous Spouse ix+183pp AuthorHouse (Bloomington, Ind).

Diki, Basil Baiting the Hangman xii+346pp Langaa Research and Publishing (Bamenda, Cameroon).

—– In the Hangman’s Shadow xviii+309pp Langaa Research and Publishing (Bamenda, Cameroon).

Dzvokora, Tawanda Aggrieved Voices 182pp CreateSpace (USA).

Eames, Andrea The White Shadow 330pp Harvill Secker (London).

Farish, Amanda The July Column ix+257pp Strategic Book Publishing (Houston, Tex).

Hawkins, Diana Shadows along the Zambezi 358pp iUniverse (Bloomington, Ind).

Kandawasvika, Patrick Danger Card 110pp Raider Publishing International (USA).

Kennedy, Elinor Dead Rites: Tumultuous Times in Zimbabwe 277pp self-pub (n.p.).

Leared, Mary One Small Sin 212pp RockingRat (Harare).

Magomana, Trymore The Secret between Their Lips 58pp Longshore Press (USA) [short stories].

Mahachi-Harper, S.N. Footprints in the Mists of Time ix+419pp Abba Press (Coventry, UK).

Mlalazi, Christopher Running with Mother v+141pp Weaver Press (Harare).

Mupanduki, Itai The Diamonds of Marange vi+88pp Mambo Press (Gweru).

Mwanaka, Tendai Keys in the River: Notes from a Modern Chimurenga 247pp Savant Books (Honolulu, TH) [short stories].

O’Neill, A.C. The Rain That Clears the Chaff 346pp Alan Doyle (n.p.).

Orr, Gordon Taking the Gap 348pp Upfront Publishing (n.p.).

Samachai, Kawengo The Incubus 311pp Booklove (Gweru).

Wadman, Christopher The Unlikely Genius of Dr Cuthbert Kambazuma 299pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

Anthologies

AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers ed Ivor Hartmann 405pp StoryTime (UK).

From Where the Wind Blows: An Anthology of Modern Zimbabwean Poetry ed Oliver Nyambi and Tendai Mangena xix+110pp Mambo Press (Gweru).

Criticism

General Studies

“Freedom vs Anticolonialism in Zimbabwe: Subversions of the ‘Third Chimurenga’ Myth in African Literature” Frank Schulze-Engler pp283-307 Engaging with Literature of Commitment [see this section].

Kuvaka Ukama / Building Bridges: A Tribute to Flora Veit-Wild ed Julius Heinicke, Hilmar Heister, Tobias Robert Klein and Viola Prüschenk 377pp Kalliope Paperbacks (Heidelberg).

“‘Performing Subversion’: Youth and Active Citizenship in Zimbabwean Protest Theatre” Muwonwa Ngonidzashe Postamble 8(1) pp[11].

“Selected Zimbabwean Writings and the Politics of Counter-Discourse in Post-Independence Period” Tendai Mangena European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 18(1) pp879-902.

“When the Written and Visual Texts Collide: Photographic Images and Acts of Memory in Zimbabwean Autobiography” Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi Scrutiny2 17(2) pp55-66.

Studies on Individual Writers

Chifunyise, Stephen “Performing the Public Sphere: Theatre in Current Zimbabwe” Julius Heinicke pp349-59 Kuvaka Ukama / Building Bridges [see Criticism: General].

Dangarembga, Tsitsi “The Formation of a Hybrid Identity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions” Peiman Amanolahi Baharvand and Bahman Zarrinjooee African Journal of History and Culture 4(3) pp27-36.

—– “In Conversation: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Filmmaker, Writer, Cultural Activist Speaks to Beti Ellerson” Feminist Africa 16 pp128-35 [interview].

—– “Pedagogical Memory and the Space of the Postcolonial Classroom: Reading Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions” Russell West-Pavlov Scrutiny2 17(2) pp67-81.

Eppel, John “Debunking the Post-2000 Masculinisation of Political Power in Zimbabwe: An Approach to John Eppel’s Absent: The English Teacher” Oliver Nyambi Postamble 8(1) pp[14].

—– “Narrating the Zimbabwean Nation: A Conversation with John Eppel” Drew Shaw Scrutiny2 17(1) pp100-11 [interview].

Hove, Chenjerai “The Indigenisation of English in Chenjerai Hove’s Novels Bones and Ancestors: A Case of Lexical and Semantic Features of chiShona-English” Maxwell Kadenge South African Journal of African Languages 32(1) pp11-16.

Lessing, Doris “‘Aren’t You Haunted by All This Recurrence?’: Spectral Traces of Traumatized Childhood(s) in Doris Lessing’s The Sweetest Dream” Rosario Arias Critique 53(4) pp355-65.

—– “The ‘Dys-Appearing’ Body in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough?” Maricel Oró-Piqueras Societies 2(4) pp270-85.

—– “Future Shock: Rewriting the Apocalypse in Contemporary Women’s Fiction” Susan Watkins Literature Interpretation Theory 23(1) pp119-37.

—– “In Room Nineteen Why Did Susan Commit Suicide? Reconsidering Gender Relations from a Doris Lessing’s Novel” Ningchuan Wang and Yiping Wen Studies in Literature and Language 4(1) pp65-74.

—– “Just Violent Intertextual and Dystopian Recent Reinscriptions of Mother Nature in James Joyce’s Ulysses and Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child” Ioana Zirra University of Bucharest Review 2(1) pp111-21.

—– “Looking Back to the Days of Thatcher: Mirroring Familial Relationships in London Observed” Sandra Singer Doris Lessing Studies 30(2) pp15-20.

—– “A Narrative Analysis of Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child” Kun Zhao Theory and Practice in Language Studies 2(7) pp1498-502.

—– “No Climax: The Rhetoric of Incest and Short Story Form in Lessing’s ‘Each Other’” Judith Kegan Gardiner Doris Lessing Studies 30(2) pp9-14.

—– “On Not Writing (Realist) Characters: The Uncanny Experimentalism of The Grass Is Singing” Dorian Stuber Doris Lessing Studies 30(2) pp4-8.

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Mlalazi, Christopher “Deconstructing Political Dictatorship: Re-Imagining Forms of Governance in Selected Zimbabwean Short Stories” Oliver Nyambi and Michael Mazuru European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 13(1) pp634-48.

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Samkange, Stanlake “‘A Series of Seemings’: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Religious Environment Explored in Stanlake Samkange’s The Mourned One and Charles Mungoshi’s ‘Sacrifice’” Mbongeni Malaba Current Writing 24(2) pp177-85.

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