South Africa and Zimbabwe

Introduction: South Africa

2013 was a good year for South African literature, particularly for fiction. A wide range of novels were published; there was an increase in the short stories in print; strong new voices emerged and many books gained both popular and critical attention within South Africa and internationally. A number of authors who impressed with their debuts have now followed up with strong second or third novels. Names such as Lauren Beukes, Amanda Coetzee, Gareth Crocker, Jassy Mackenzie, Angela Makholwa, Brent Meersman, Niq Mhlongo, Kgebetli Moele, Nthikeng Mohlele, Gail Schimmel, Steven Boykey Sidley, Fiona Snyckers, Meg Vandermerwe, James Whyle and Rachel Zadok move from “names to watch” to a new generation of established South African writers.

This year sees a number of impressive debuts, ensuring that there will be no shortage of new voices. Maren Bodenstein, Dominique Botha, Carol Campbell, C.A. Davids, Perfect Hlongwane, Charlie Human, Ron Irwin, Alex Latimer, Songeziwe Mahlangu, Maria Phalime and Claire Robertson are particularly noteworthy.

The South African literary awards reflected the range of books published, with each of the main awards going to a different book. The Sunday Times Award for Fiction was won by Claire Robertson for The Spiral House, with The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, False River by Dominique Botha, Penumbra by Simphiwe Mahlangu and Wolf, Wolf by Eben Venter shortlisted. It is worth noting that three of the shortlisted books were debuts (Robertson’s, Botha’s and Mahlangu’s). Nadine Gordimer was honoured with a lifetime award from the Sunday Times.

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) Prize went to Lauren Beukes for The Shining Girls, with The Sculptors of Mapungubwe by Zakes Mda, Stepping Out by Steven Boykey Sidley and Sister-Sister by Rachel Zadok shortlisted. The Debut Prize went to Dominique Botha for False River, with The Blacks of Cape Town by C.A. Davids, Jozi by Perfect Hlongwane and The Spiral House by Claire Robertson shortlisted. False River and Wolf, Wolf by Eben Venter were among several books issued simultaneously in English and Afrikaans, with Botha winning both UJ debut prizes. Wolf, Wolf was shortlisted for the UJ Prize for Afrikaans, losing to a novel by Marlene van Niekerk, not yet translated. The Afrikaans version of False River also won the Jan Rabie and Eugene Marais Prizes.

Shadows by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma won the Herman Charles Bosman Prize, beating Water Music by Margie Orford and Sister-Sister by Rachel Zadok. In youth literature, the M.E.R. Prize went to Sharp Edges by S.A. Partridge and the Maskew Miller Longman Award went to Second Chances by Maria Phalime. Sadly, the M-Net Literary Awards were discontinued. Awarded since 1991, these had recognized novels in each of the official languages, one of the few awards for writing in languages other than English or Afrikaans. A pleasing development was the establishment of the Elisabeth Eybers Prize for poetry in Afrikaans or English. There has not been an annual award for poetry so this is much needed. The award was won by Marlene van Niekerk for an Afrikaans collection.

The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize was also discontinued, with awards being given to individual short stories rather than published novels. This is a loss of a high profile award but it does suggest the increasing interest in short fiction. Within South Africa two competitions for short stories were instituted, with the best entries published in an anthology. Short Story Day Africa is an initiative to promote short stories. Among the activities was a competition, inviting stories around the theme of food. Entries were drawn from across the continent, with the winning writer coming from Kenya. The anthology Feast, Famine and Potluck, edited by Karen Jennings, is an impressive collection, providing two of the stories shortlisted for the Caine Prize. The Short.Sharp.Stories award is a project of the National Arts Festival, aimed at including fiction in the festival. The initial competition had a theme of crime fiction and was won by Dawn Garisch, with the best stories published in Bloody Satisfied, edited by Joanne Hichens. The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award was won by Kobus Moolman, with the best poems published in The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology; III, edited by Liesl Jobson.

Two awards are decided by popular vote. The Exclusive Books Book of the Year went to The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. The Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award has not been announced at the time of writing this Introduction. The shortlist is drawn up by booksellers, with the finals voted on by the public. All the shortlisted books are South African, but The Shining Girls and an Afrikaans novel by Deon Meyer are the only works of fiction.

The Shining Girls was the big book of the year, making a substantial impact internationally and being nominated for a range of international awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the R.T. Book Award for Best Suspense Thriller, the British Fantasy Award, the Crime Writers Association Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award as well as appearing on “Best of 2013” lists for a number of newspapers and websites. The novel has attracted positive comparisons to Stephen King, as well as praise from King himself. Set in Chicago from the 1920s to the present, it features a time-travelling serial-killer and is an intriguing and compelling blend of science fiction and thriller. Garnering critical attention and popular praise, this novel cements Beukes’ status as a rising star.

Beukes is one of many authors to set their books outside South Africa. J.M. Coetzee returns to the allegorical mode of his earlier novels with The Childhood of Jesus, set in an unnamed, indeterminate location where a man and a boy arrive in a strange land. New arrivals are expected to leave the past behind but he embarks on a quest to find the boy’s mother and to make sense of his new life. The novel has attracted mixed reviews, with terms like puzzling, elusive, intriguing, confusing being used while others have praised it for its beauty and profound symbolism. While perhaps not judged to be Coetzee’s best work, it is sure to engender ongoing critical debate and discussion.

Claire Robertson has attracted comparisons to Coetzee and Olive Schreiner for her debut The Spiral House, which interweaves narratives from 1794 and 1961, united by the quest for political and personal freedom, and the impact of racism. A freed slave and wigmaker’s apprentice travels with her employer from Dutch Cape Town to a remote farm. They get tangled up in the lives of the farm inhabitants – both slaves and free men. In the more contemporary account, on the eve of the establishment of the Republic, a restless nun on a mission station struggles to free herself from her Order. The arrival of a group of American caravanners is the catalyst for change. Some reviewers and readers objected to the style, especially in the eighteenth century segments which incorporate archaic language, yet most have praised the lyrical prose of this dense and demanding novel.

False River by Dominique Botha is a fictionalised memoir of growing up on a Free State farm, and an elegy to the author’s older brother, brilliant but caught up in drugs and self-destructive behaviour. The novel is poignant but disturbing with an at times uncomfortable blurring of fact and fiction. Penumbra by Songeziwe Mahlangu is a novel of disillusionment and displacement in urban Cape Town. It follows a young man, a recent graduate stuck in a dull job, who is torn between a reckless drug-fuelled lifestyle and charismatic Christianity and who spirals into religious paranoia and mental breakdown.

Much of the fiction is concerned with the intersections of the past and present. My Children Have Faces by Carol Campbell is a beautiful but heart-breaking debut which focuses on a family of “karretjie mense”, nomadic cart people of the Karoo. It is narrated through the voices of Muis, who is fleeing from her past, her partner Kapok, their two older children Fransie and Witpop, and the sinister Miskiet, whose violence has kept them on the run for fifteen years. Shooting Snakes by Maren Bodenstein interweaves the story of an elderly man and his estranged daughter with the account of his childhood on a 1940s German mission station in Venda. The internment of his German father as an enemy alien reminds of the impact of World War II on South Africa. For the main character, it is the return of his father which triggers a tragedy that will scar him for life. In poetic prose Bodenstein shows the ways in which the past continues to influence the present. The Blacks of Cape Town by C.A. Davids explores the complexity of history and memory. A historian, Zara Black, based in America, is researching the history of Timbuktu while also trying to explore her own uneasy family history.

In Call It Dog by Marli Roode a journalist returns to South Africa to report on the xenophobic violence of 2008. Her estranged father appears asking for her help in proving his innocence in a case of apartheid-era violence. As they travel across the country she is forced to confront his past, but also her own history. Roode explores notions of justice, truth, loyalty and memory. In A Quiet Kind of Courage by Anthony Schneider the grandson of a former ANC activist travels to South Africa to make a documentary about the country’s liberation. He begins to unravel dark secrets about his grandfather’s past and the shocking events that led to his exile. Moving between the fifties and sixties and the present the novel explores exile and the ways in which the liberation struggle changed the lives of a family for generations. Playwright Pieter-Dirk Uys turns to fiction with Panorama, which is inspired by his play of the same title. The novel expands the play and follows what happened to the characters twenty years later. A woman takes her teenage sons to Robben Island to share some family history, retracing her journey twenty years earlier to see her dying father, a political prisoner. On that visit she had stayed with two young white teachers, an unwelcome visit fraught with mutual fear and suspicion. The 1987 sections are seen through the eyes of each of the young women, interwoven with the later visit.

Way back Home by Niq Mhlongo is a caustic critique of South Africa’s political elite and a reminder of dark aspects of liberation history. A former freedom-fighter is haunted by the ghost of a female soldier, betrayed and killed in a political purge, who also wants to return home. Mixing magical realism with psychological trauma the novel highlights the need to confront the past and deal with the legacy of exile. After a highly praised short story collection, The Cutting Room is Mary Watson’s first novel, a provocative exploration of loss, loneliness, guilt and ghosts. Sister-Sister by Rachel Zadok blends magic realism, fantastic elements and the gritty realism of near future South Africa in a heart-breaking tale of twin sisters, inseparable until a stay with the extended family they never knew they had breaks their bond. Abuse, exploitation, HIV, witchcraft, superstitions about twins, secrets, betrayal and redemption are among the themes.

At the heart of The Imagined Child by Jo-Anne Richards is a complex mother and daughter relationship, fraught with guilt and a sense of failure. A scriptwriter retreats to a small Free State town, hoping to build a new life. But dark secrets, her own and those of the town, begin to surface. When her troubled daughter is accused of murdering the child she was au-pairing in the UK and comes to live with her, she is forced to confront her own past and uncovers secrets around an unsolved murder.

Ron Irwin’s debut Flat Water Tuesday is set in America where Irwin grew up and is part coming-of-age novel, part a man coming to terms with his past. A call from an old rowing team-mate forces the main character to confront his memories of his time at an elite college, and the costs of winning. Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright merges distant past and present. A modern day writer goes to Jerusalem to research Richard the Lionheart’s quest for the True Cross and becomes embroiled in a modern mystery involving a missing journalist, kidnapping, spies and relics.

Irwin and Cartwright are just some of the authors setting their novels abroad. Others like Mda and Nyoka turn to African history for inspiration. The Sculptors of Mapungubwe by Zakes Mda is set in 13^th century Mapungubwe, the historical African city state and is an epic tale of the growing rivalry between the two royal sculptors. A Hill of Fools by Mtutuzeli Nyoka is set in the fictitious African country of Doma, based on Goma, and shows a courtier investigating a murder and uncovering the extent of corruption in the city state.

The wreck of the Grosvenor in 1768 looms large in the literary imagination of South Africa. In Walk James Whyle takes the journal of one of the survivors of the wreck and fictionalises the long walk down the Eastern Cape coast in a sparse, bleak and harrowing account of suffering and the quest for survival. More recent history is explored in Night Journey by Roderick Mackenzie which focuses on a conscientious objector in 1970s South Africa and Five Lives at Noon by Brent Meersman, set in the early 1990s. It is a sequel to Meersman’s Reports before Daybreak which was set in the 1980s and follows the same five characters from the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 to the first democratic election in 1994. Their stories intersect against the backdrop of the political violence in KwaZulu-Natal and the doubts and fears in that turbulent period. As in the first book, each chapter begins with newspaper headlines from the period the novel spans.

Post-apartheid life is explored in several gritty, frequently bleak novels. Rumours by Mongane Wally Serote depicts the disintegration of spirit. After losing his wife and his job and becoming dependent on alcohol, the main character embarks on a spiritual journey to find healing and peace with the ancestors. In Zebra Crossing by Meg Vandermerwe young Zimbabwean girl with albinism flees with her brother to South Africa after the death of their mother in political violence. They find refuge with their cousin in Cape Town, along with other illegal immigrants, where she must cope with xenophobia and discrimination against albinos.

Jozi by Perfect Hlongwane, Fools of Melville by Andile Mngxitama and Small Things by Nthikeng Mohlele portray urban Johannesburg and the lives of young black men against a backdrop of crime, corruption, xenophobia and racism. What Happens in Hankaroo… by Maruping Phepheng is set in a fictitious town and explores political violence and corruption. In Risk by Jason Staggie a group of friends in Cape Town embark on a high-stakes game of dares which soon spirals out of control. Untitled by Kgebetli Moele is a novel written from the perspective of a seventeen-year-old girl and explores the challenges of sexual abuse that face young women.

Violence against women and children is the theme of Water Music by Margie Orford, the fifth novel in the Clare Hart crime series. Black Widow Society by Angela Makholwa centres on a secret society to murder abusive husbands. Interestingly, it has been reviewed as both crime fiction and chick lit. In What Hidden Lies by Michéle Rowe a detective is forced to work with a retired criminal psychologist to solve the murder of a suspected sex offender. As the women hunt the killer, past and present collide, unearthing long buried secrets and lies. Rowe won the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award, beating fellow South African M.D. Villiers, whose debut City of Blood is a coming-of-age thriller set in Johannesburg’s underworld. An orphaned teenager’s life is thrown into turmoil and danger when he goes to the assistance of an elderly woman being attacked. It is a story of survival, revenge and redemption. Of Cops & Robbers by Mike Nicol is a gritty noir thriller set in Cape Town and features a private investigator caught up in rhino horn smuggling and apartheid regime dirty tricks. Amanda Coetzee’s Flaming June is a crime thriller set in England and the third to feature Badger, a detective with a gypsy background.

Gail Schimmel’s What Happened to the Cowley Twins? explores the long-term effects of crime. Baby twins were kidnapped and never found. The story focuses on their brother, who has spent his whole life in the shadow of this tragedy. Schimmel uses different voices, with chapters narrated by Tim, his wife, and a journalist, often giving different perspectives on the same events. Napoleon Bones by Jenny Hobbs is a different take on the crime genre. It is an amusing, satirical detective novel set in Cape Town, following the adventures of the members of a canine unit, but from the perspective of the dog. The novel is self-reflexive and intertextual – it plays with the expected conventions of the genre, and introduces references to local fictional detectives.

Gareth Crocker has produced two novels. King follows his previous novels with the theme of animals and redemption of wounded heroes and is set in Detroit where a rare white lion cub is saved by an autistic child and her troubled uncle. Never Let Go is also set in America, and merges crime thriller with paranormal drama as a writer is offered the chance to regain his daughter, killed in a botched kidnapping.

Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human also blends elements of crime and urban fantasy. It is an impressive debut with easily the best title of the year (“now now” is a South Africanism suggesting some time in the future). A teenage boy teams up with an alcoholic supernatural bounty hunter to save his girlfriend and prevent the apocalypse while avoiding being jailed as a delusional serial killer. The darkly humerous tale brings together conventional tropes of horror and fantasy as well as African mythology, such as San mythology of the mantis god and Afrikaans legends of sieners (prophets). Alex Latimer’s The Space Race is another debut with a clever title. It is a quirky thriller about a secret apartheid-era space programme in the Karoo, which comes to light when it is hijacked and a rocket blasts into space.

Liesl Schwarz has two novels, A Conspiracy of Alchemists and its sequel A Clockwork Heart. The first and second in the Chronicles of Light and Shadows series, the novels blend steampunk and urban fantasy and are set in an alternative early twentieth-century Europe. A Conspiracy of Alchemists won the RNA Award for Best Debut Novel.

Stepping Out by Steven Boykey Sidley follows a retired American who is bored with his middle-class life, and when his wife goes away for a few days, he decides to leave his comfortable routine and step out, off the straight and narrow path he has followed his whole life. An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything) by Mark Winkler shows a South African protagonist struggling with the approach of middle age and discontent with his upper-middle-class life. One Green Bottle by Debrah Anne Nixon depicts a woman’s struggle with mental illness. Thirty Second World by Emma van der Vliet is set in the world of advertising and explores women’s friendship and rivalry and the challenges of juggling multiple roles.

The international trend of women’s erotica is taken up but with two differences – the local books are written by established writers and the female protagonists are firmly in control. Jassy Mackenzie moves away from her usual crime fiction in Folly where a woman struggling with debt decides to become a dominatrix. Helena S. Paige is the writing name for Helen Moffett, Sarah Lotz and Paige Nick. A Girl Walks into a Bar puts the reader in control by utilising the “choose-your-own-adventure” format. It is written in the second person, where “you” choose which potential partner and setting the protagonist goes with. The book has proved immensely popular, with international publications and translations.

Helena S. Paige is not the only collaborative author. Sarah Lotz also teams up with Louis Greenberg as S.L. Grey with The New Girl, their third horror novel. Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip, writing as Michael Stanley produce, Deadly Harvest, the fifth Detective Kubu crime novel, set in Botswana.

Translation is another form of collaboration. Wolf, Wolf by Eben Venter is translated by Michiel Heyns. It usually takes a few years for Afrikaans books to appear in English but Wolf, Wolf was published simultaneously in both languages. The Skinner’s Revenge by Chris Karsten, translated by Elsa Silke, is the second in a crime series. Etienne van Heerden has two works of fiction. In Love’s Place translated by Leon de Kock, is a novel first published in Afrikaans in 2005, while Gifkaroo/Poison Karoo is an extract from a new novel of the same title, published in Afrikaans and English (translated by Isobel Dixon) as a stand-alone story dealing with fracking in the Karoo.

Fiona Snyckers’ Trinity books have blurred the boundaries between teenage and adult fiction. Team Trinity is a prequel (although completely stand-alone), showing Trinity at high school. As with her previous books this deals with serious issues with a light touch. The series of diets Trinity and her friend try provide some humour, but sow the seeds of the serious anorexia in Trinity Rising. Trinity becomes involved in a dysfunctional and damaging relationship with a controlling boyfriend. Snyckers shows a bright and confident young woman slowly sucked into an emotionally abusive relationship.

Internationally-acclaimed Jenny Robson has two novels, which both explore serious issues. Back to Villa Park overturns stereotypes, deals with issues of race, prejudice and the problems of the homeless, highlighting that poverty is not bound by race. A teenage boy, a “poor white” orphaned by the murder of his parents, returns to his old suburb, ends up a beggar, eventually working as a gardener to the black couple now living in his former home. Monday Evening, Thursday Afternoon explores the nature of bigotry through the eyes of two young girls. Louise van Rensburg and Faheema Majiet are best friends despite their very different backgrounds. But international events (the bombing of the London Underground and the furore over the Dutch newspaper’s cartoons of Mohammed) affect them as rising tensions lead to their parents banning their friendship. The novel was shortlisted for the Macmillan African Writers’ Prize.

S.A. Partridge’s award-winning Sharp Edges focuses on a group of teenagers in the aftermath of the death of their friend. Each chapter is from the perspective of one of the characters, including the dead girl, and gives a slightly different perspective on the events leading up to the tragedy, and on the relationships between the friends. While unravelling the mystery of how she died, it is also a moving account of grief and highlights the self-absorption of teenagers.

Three impressive debuts appeared in youth literature. Second Chances by Maria Phalime explores issues of friendship, awakening sexuality, crime, teenage pregnancy, the dangers of HIV and AIDS. A young girl’s dreams of becoming a doctor are disrupted when she learns hard truths about her father and escapes into a lifestyle of money, parties, fast cars and older men. Hearing Helen by Carolyn Morton shows a teenage girl struggling to fit in at school and to get her parents’ attention at home. With piano playing as a background theme, the novel explores the importance of friendship, of family and of following dreams. Suzanne van Rooyen’s The Other Me explores issues of friendship, love, guilt, self-harm and gender identity. This is the first South African youth novel to feature a trans-gender protagonist.

Queer Africa was awarded a Lambda Literary Award for best LGBT anthology. It brings together established and emerging voices, with a mix of new and previously-published stories. Feast, Famine and Potluck and Bloody Satisfied round out a trio of impressive anthologies.

Sixty-two years after his death Herman Charles Bosman continues to be popular, with another selection of his work in Best Stories and Humour of Herman Charles Bosman chosen by Craig MacKenzie and Stephen Gray. Strange Pilgrimages by Achmat Dangor shows characters on a variety of journeys, both literal and metaphorical. The collection looks back on the struggle years and how the past impacts us in different ways. Liesl Jobson follows up her earlier collection of flash fiction with Ride the Tortoise, a collection of longer stories. Russell Kaschula moves between writing youth literature and short stories, bringing out a new collection Displaced.

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma has won awards for individual short stories. Her first collection Shadows has attracted praise and awards, beating two novels to win the Herman Charles Bosman Prize, one of the only cross-genre prizes. A novella and five short stories, it explores daily life in Zimbabwe and the experiences of being a foreigner in Johannesburg. Tshuma is a Zimbabwean now living in South Africa. Established poets Gary Cummiskey and Makhosazana Xaba move into fiction with debut collections Off-Ramp and Running & Other Stories. Judy Croome has written a novel and a collection of poetry, but now adds The Weight of a Feather and Other Stories to her oeuvre.

Self-published work is not usually included in the bibliography, the exception being poetry. Very few publishers will publish poetry, and most collections are produced by the poets themselves or small independent publishers. Don Maclennan had privately published many of his poems in small collections. Collected Poems, posthumously collected by Dan Wylie, is a substantial collection bringing together an impressive body of work and making it more readily available. Another substantial collection is Rough Music, the selected poems of Ari Sitas, drawn from nine collections published between 1989 and 2013. Antjie Krog’s Skinned contains poems drawn from several of Krog’s collections, which she has translated from Afrikaans.

Of the new collections appearing Citizen of Elsewhere by C.J. Driver, Perspectives by David Friedland, Just like Space Cookies by Goodenough Mashego, Left Over by Kobus Moolman, Fhedzi by Khulile Nxumalo and Slow Fires by Dan Wylie are particularly worth noting. Charl F. Cilliers has two collections, Grains of Sand and Keyhole of the Word as do Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss who collaborate on Hogsback Hiku, which contains haiku and variants, and Learn the Dance, a collection of love poetry.

Impressive first collections came from Thandi Sliepen with The Turtle Dove Told Me, Khadija Heeger with Beyond the Delivery Room, Susan Groves with Pleasure-in-Relating and Charmaine Kolwane with Poetry Commando. Simphiwe Nolutshungu has written several books in isiXhosa but now turns to English with Nolutshungu Avenue.

Splinters of a Mirage Dawn: An Anthology of Migrant Poetry from South Africa and Africa Ablaze! Poems and Prose Pieces of War and Civil Conflict are themed anthologies. Two books aimed at raising awareness about the problem of rhino poaching appeared. For Rhino in a Shrinking World is an anthology of poems, not just about rhinos but also other animals and environmental concerns. It is an international anthology but the majority of the contributors come from South Africa. Plight of the Rhino contains poems and short stories with contributions drawn from South African and British authors. Poetry 99 and Peopress feature performance poets, with DVDs to accompany the texts.

Once again Junkets is responsible for most of the published plays. Their New Voices series introduces up-and-coming playwrights Philip Rademeyer with The View, Anele Rusi with iSystem, Sinethemba Twani with The Beneficiary and Christo Davids and Jody J. Abrahams with Bullets over Bishop Lavis. Acclaimed plays by established playwrights Mike van Graan and Omphile Molusi also appear.

SA Gay Plays 2 contains plays written from 1994 to 2013, dealing with various aspects of gay life. The plays are “Your Loving Simon” by Robert Colman, “Other People’s Lives” by Amy Jephta, “iVirgin Boy” by Peter Krummeck, “Chomi” by N. Pfarelo and “Special Thanks to Guests from Afar”. Now I am Alone 1 and 2 contain extracts from plays and include background on the playwright and the production history of each play. The books are intended to assist in the teaching of drama as well as providing material to be used in performance or auditions.

Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice is a collection of five plays by award-winning playwright Ashwin Singh. These plays, all set in Durban, reflect on the complexities and contradictions of life in post-apartheid South Africa and focus particularly on people of Indian origin and their relationship with other South African communities. Adam Small’s play The Orange Earth, which first appeared in Afrikaans as Goree, was written in 1978. It has been staged several times but this is the first time the text has been published. A classic work of resistance theatre, it revolves around the planting of a bomb in a supermarket, exploring injustice, resistance and remembering.

Memory is a dominant theme in non-fiction. Es’kia Mphahlele’s classic autobiography Afrika My Music is reissued. First published in 1984 it covers the years 1957 to 1983. Other memoirs written by authors are Dawn Garisch with Dance with Suitcase and C.J. Driver with My Brother & I. Journalist James Sidall explores his struggles with addiction in Dystopia while Fractured Lives by Toni Strasbourg is a memoir of her experiences as a documentary filmmaker covering the wars in southern Africa during the 1980s and 1990s.

Here and Now is a collection of letters between American author Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee, written from 2008 to 2011. The correspondence was initiated as a way to generate discussion and the two authors explore a range of topics from friendship to sports to literature. From a Place of Blackness contains letters between South African writers Andile Mngxitama and Aryan Kaganof, exploring the challenges of inter-racial dialogue. Hagen Engler combines memoir with humour and commentary on race relations in a memoir Marrying Black Girls for Guys Who Aren’t Black and a collection of essays Comrade Baby. Zukiswa Wanner’s first novel dealt with the complex relationships between domestic workers and their employers. She turns to humour in a pseudo guide Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam.

Sihle Khumalo gives a humorous account of travel in West Africa in Almost Sleeping My Way to Timbuktu. Two very early works of travel writing have appeared. Into the Hitherto Unknown is the annotated journal of an eighteenth-century Dutch expedition to the Eastern Cape while Eighteen Years in South Africa is an account of a Swedish miner in the late nineeenth century.

Many early South African black writers (as well as political leaders) were educated at mission schools. Healdtown by Trevor Webster explores the history and legacy of one of the most famous of these schools. Three important biographies of black writers appeared: A Native of Nowhere: The Life of Nat Nakasa by Ryan Brown, Sindiwe Magona: Climbing Higher by Dianne Shober and Richard Rive: A Partial Biography by Shaun Viljoen. Surprisingly, no critical book has appeared on André Brink until this year’s Contrary: Critical Responses to the Novels of André Brink, edited by Willie Burger and Karina Magdalena Szczurek. Full-length studies also appear on Breyten Breytenbach, Alex La Guma, Olive Schreiner and J.M. Coetzee (with Coetzee the subject of three books).

The ongoing popularity of crime and speculative fiction has been noted. This is increasingly seen in criticism, with a special issue of Current Writing dedicated to crime fiction and critical articles appearing on authors such as Lauren Beakes and Lily Herne. Ecocriticism continues to attract attention, with a special issue of Alternation devoted to environmental concerns. Dan Wylie’s Crocodile is part of the international “Animal” series and examines crocodiles in history, art, literature and myth.

It is pleasing to see an increase in the criticism of poetry with articles on Lionel Abrahams, Dennis Brutus, Roy Campbell, Patrick Cullinan, Ingrid de Kok, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Antjie Krog, Don Maclennan, Chris Mann, Arthur Nortje, Brian Walter and Stephen Watson, and a special issue of English in Africa on Douglas Livingstone.

Poet Mark Swift, playwright, actor and director Peter Krummeck, children’s author Eileen Molver and novelists Aziz Hassim and Tom Sharpe died in 2013.

Bibliography: South Africa

Research Aids

Guide to Publishing in South Africa 2013 Publishers’ Association of South Africa 297pp Publishers’ Association of South Africa (Cape Town).

Small Publishers’ Catalogue 2013 comp and ed Colleen Higgs 144pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

“South African Crime and Detective Fiction in English: A Bibliography and Publishing History” Elizabeth le Roux Current Writing 25(2) pp136-52.

Poetry

Banoobhai, Shabbir The Drums Beat All Night 53pp self-pub (n.p.).

Bolaji, Omoseye Collected Poems 60pp Mbali Press (Ladybrand).

Cilliers, Charl J.F. Grains of Sand: Haiku Variations 119pp Malgas (Melkbosstrand).

— Keyhole of the Word 106pp Malgas (Melkbosstrand).

De Gruchy, Isobel Walking On: Poems, Prayers, Pictures viii+106pp self-pub (Hermanus).

Driver, C.J. Citizen of Elsewhere 36pp Happenstance Press (Glenrothes, UK).

Friedland, David Perspectives 52pp Quartz Press (Parkhurst).

Groves, Susan Pleasure-in-Relating 86pp Hands-On Books (Cape Town).

Heeger, Khadija Tracey Beyond the Delivery Room 62pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Kolwane, Charmaine Poetry Commando 74pp self-pub (Bloemfontein).

Lancaster, Graham Vivian That Kind of Feeling 60pp Alexander House with Trayberry Press (Pietermaritzburg).

Maclennan, Don Collected Poems ed Dan Wylie xix+463pp Print Matters Heritage (Noordhoek).

Mashego, Goodenough Just like Space Cookies: A Poetry Collection 104pp Tenworkers Media (Shatale).

Moolman, Kobus Left Over 61pp Dye Hard (Sandton).

Morrissey, Norman and Silke Heiss Learn the Dance: Another Year of Love in Poems 20pp self-pub (Hogsback).

— Hogsback Hiku vi+24pp self-pub (Hogsback).

Nolutshungu, Simphiwe Nolutshungu Avenue 39pp Aerial (Grahamstown).

Nxumalo, Khulile Fhedzi: Iamgoingtoknowmgwalopatterns 92pp Dye Hard (Sandton).

Sitas, Ari Rough Music: Selected Poems 1989-2013 158pp Deep South (Grahamstown).

Sliepen, Thandi The Turtle Dove Told Me 61pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Wylie, Dan Slow Fires 53pp Fourthwall Books (Johannesburg).

Drama

Davids, Christo and Jody J. Abrahams Bullets over Bishop Lavis 89pp Junkets (Mowbray).

Molusi, Omphile Cadre 68pp Junkets (Mowbray).

Rademeyer, Philip The View 60pp Junkets (Mowbray).

Rusi, Anele iSystem 77pp Junkets (Mowbray).

Singh, Ashwin Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice: Five South African Plays 220pp Aurora Metro Books (Twickenham, UK).

Small, Adam The Orange Earth 93pp Tafelberg (Cape Town).

Twani, Sinethemba The Beneficiary 84pp Junkets (Mowbray).

Van Graan, Mike Rainbow Scars 81pp Junkets; MVG Productions (Mowbray).

Fiction

Barker, Julie A Shining Star iii+60pp Cover2Cover Books (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Beukes, Lauren The Shining Girls 304pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Beyers, Johan J. The Kupferberg Mining Company 332pp Wordweaver (Windhoek).

Bodenstein, Maren Shooting Snakes 207pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Bolaji, Omoseye Tebogo in the Thick of Things 90pp Mbali Press (Ladybrand).

Bosman, Herman Charles Best Stories and Humour of Herman Charles Bosman select Craig MacKenzie and Stephen Gray 320pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town).

Botha, Dominique False River 202pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Campbell, Carol My Children Have Faces 142pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Cartwright, Justin Lion Heart x+330pp Bloomsbury (London).

Coetzee, Amanda Flaming June 308pp Pan Macmillan (Johannesburg).

Coetzee, J.M. The Childhood of Jesus 277pp Harvill Secker (London).

Crocker, Gareth King 242pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

— Never Let Go 294pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Croome, Judy The Weight of a Feather and Other Stories 191pp Aztar Press (Johannesburg).

Cummiskey, Gary Off Ramp: Stories 140pp Dye Hard (Sandton).

Dangor, Achmat Strange Pilgrimages: Short Stories 170pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

Davids, C.A. The Blacks of Cape Town: A Novel 239pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Dyer, Dorothy Friends Forever iv+68pp Cover2Cover Books (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Fairhead, Barbara Grenfell Of Death and Beauty 516pp Sunstone Press (Santa Fe, NM).

Freer, Dave, Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint Burdens of the Dead 438pp Baen Books (Riverdale, NY).

Gamedze, Londi and Dorothy Dyer From Boys to Men 143pp Cover2Cover Books (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Golightly, Walton The People of the Sky xii+571pp Quercus (London).

Grey, S.L., pseud The New Girl 292pp Corvus (London).

Haden, Ros Big Ups! Fundza Short Stories 140pp Cover2Cover Books (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Hendry, James Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild xiv+378pp Pan Macmillan (Johannesburg).

Hlongwane, Perfect Jozi: A Novel 102pp UKZN Press (Pietermaritzburg).

Hobbs, Jenny Napoleon Bones 207pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Hofmeyr, Dianne Oliver Strange and the Ghosts of Madagascar 134pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Human, Charlie Apocalypse Now Now 283pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Irwin, Ron Flat Water Tuesday vii+306pp Thomas Dunne (New York).

Jobson, Liesl Ride the Tortoise: Short Stories 175pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

Kaganof, Aryan The Vuvuzela Murders 174pp Mbali Press (Ladybrand).

Kanemanyanga, Maxwell Perkins Chapindapasi: The Man Who Disappeared 51pp Eselby Jnr (Bloemfontein) [short stories].

Kaschula, Russell H. Displaced: Twelve Short Stories viii+167pp Unisa Press (Pretoria).

Lancaster, Graham Vivian The Devil’s Own 323pp Alexander House (Pietermaritzburg).

— Penga Street 100pp Alexander House (Pietermaritzburg) [short stories].

— Smoke Screens 128pp Alexander House (Pietermaritzburg).

Latimer, Alex The Space Race 204pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Levinson, Bernard Sexual Secrets: The Sex Lives of Famous People 250pp Rebel ePublishers (Detroit, Mich; Johannesburg) [short stories].

MacGregor, Joanne Rock Steady 284pp Protea Book House (Pretoria) [for young adults].

Mackenzie, Jassy Folly 256pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Mackenzie, Roderick Night Journey 249pp Karnac (London).

Mahlangu, Songeziwe Penumbra 212pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Makholwa, Angela Black Widow Society 279pp Pan Macmillan (Johannesburg).

Mda, Zakes The Sculptors of Mapungubwe 227pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Meersman, Brent Five Lives at Noon 328pp Missing Ink (Cape Town).

Mhlongo, Niq Way back Home 208pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Mlandu, M-Soga Tell Me Again Stories 107pp Lovedale Press (Alice).

Mngxitama, Andile Fools of Melville 90pp Sankara Publishers (Malvern).

Moele, Kgebetli Untitled: A Novel 211pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Mohlele, Nthikeng Small Things 108pp UKZN Press (Scottsville).

Morton, Carolyn Hearing Helen 144pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Naudé, Michelle Fractures 44pp Aerial (Grahamstown) [short stories].

Nicol, Mike Of Cops and Robbers 386pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Nixon, Debrah Anne One Green Bottle 283pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Nussey, Wilf The Hidden Third 382pp Rebel ePublishers (Detroit, Mich; Johannesburg).

Nyoka, Mtutuzeli A Hill of Fools: A Novel xvi+200pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

Orford, Margie Water Music 331pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

Paige, Helena S., pseud A Girl Walks into a Bar: Your Fantasy, Your Rules 302pp Delta (Johannesburg).

Park, Tony The Prey 472pp Quercus (London).

Partridge, S.A. Sharp Edges 130pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Phalime, Maria Second Chances 125pp Maskew Miller Longman (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Phepheng, Maruping What Happens in Hankaroo…142pp InkSword Publishing (Kimberley).

Reid, Lan Laugh back the Sun 312pp Publishing Print Matters (Cape Town).

Richards, Jo-Anne The Imagined Child 330pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

Robertson, Claire The Spiral House 282pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Robson, Jenny Back to Villa Park 127pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [for young adults].

— Monday Evening, Thursday Afternoon 127pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Roode, Marli Call It Dog 337pp Atlantic (London).

Rowe, Michéle What Hidden Lies 349pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Schimmel, Gail Whatever Happened to the Cowley Twins? 276pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Schneider, Anthony A Quiet Kind of Courage 250pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Schwarz, Liesel A Clockwork Heart 283pp Del Rey (New York).

— A Conspiracy of Alchemists 421pp Del Rey (New York).

Scully, Robert T.K. The King History Forgot: Makikele, the 19th-Century Legend of Phalaborwa, South Africa 380pp Two Harbors Press (Minneapolis, Minn).

Serote, Mongane Wally Rumours 278pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

Sidley, Steven Boykey Stepping Out 234pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

Smith, Wilbur Vicious Circle 433pp Macmillan (London).

Snyckers, Fiona Team Trinity 294pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Staggie, Jason Risk 189pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Stanley, Michael, pseud Deadly Harvest: A Detective Kubu Mystery xiv+477pp Bourbon Street Books (New York).

Strauss, Gertrud Three Women out of Love 447pp Solo Collective (Cowies Hill).

Uys, Pieter-Dirk Panorama 207pp Missing Ink (Cape Town).

Vandermerwe, Meg Zebra Crossing 158pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Van der Vliet, Emma Thirty Second World 431pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Van Rooyen, Suzanne The Other Me Harmony Ink Press (Tallahassee, Fla) [for young adults].

Villiers, M.D. City of Blood 341pp Harvill Secker (London).

Watson, Mary The Cutting Room 344pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Whyle, James Walk ix+146pp Jacana (Auckland Park).

Winkler, Mark An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything) 221pp Kwela (Cape Town).

The Write Girls, pseud The Man with the Blue Eyes 223pp self-pub (Cape Town).

Xaba, Makhosazana Running & Other Stories ii+153pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Zadok, Rachel Sister-Sister 316pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Translations

Karsten, Chris The Skinner’s Revenge trans from Afrikaans by Elsa Silke 416pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [novel].

Krog, Antjie Skinned: A Selection of Translated Poems 170pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Van Heerden, Etienne Gifkaroo / Poison Karoo trans from Afrikaans by Isobel Dixon 18+19pp Houtstraat Publishers (n.p.) [extract from novel; parallel text in English and Afrikaans].

— In Love’s Place trans from Afrikaans by Leon de Kock 457pp Penguin (Johannesburg) [novel].

Venter, Eben Wolf, Wolf trans from Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns 266pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [novel].

Anthologies

Africa Ablaze! Poems and Prose Pieces of War and Civil Conflict select Patricia Schonstein 427pp African Sun Press (Cape Town).

Bloody Satisfied ed Joanne Hichens 320pp Mercury (Cape Town) [short stories].

Feast, Famine and Potluck ed Karen Jennings 259pp Short Story Day Africa (Cape Town) [short stories].

For Rhino in a Shrinking World ed Harry Owen v+202pp Poets Printery (East London) [poetry].

New South African Playscripts: 2012-2013 comp Emma Durden 120pp Twist Theatre Development Projects (Durban) [text in English and Zulu].

‘Now I am Alone’ 1: SA Monologues F&M 16+ comp Robin Malan 125pp Junkets (Mowbray).

‘Now I am Alone’ 2: SA Monologues F&M 16+ comp Robin Malan 125pp Junkets (Mowbray).

Novel Script Book 2013: Playscripts comp Twist Theatre Development Projects 76pp Twist Theatre Development Projects (Durban).

Peopress: Inspired by Macufe Poetree 2013 ed Helen Naponya 75pp JahRose Productions (Bloemfontein) [with DVD; poetry recited at Mangaung Cultural Festival, 2012].

Plight of the Rhino: A Wildlife Anthology comp Conrad Brand 244pp Springbok Publications (Datchet, UK) [multi-genre].

Poetry 99: Twenty South African Poets in Performance, Grahamstown 1999 ed Robert Berold 119pp Timbila (Elim Hospital); Deep South (Grahamstown) [with DVD].

Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction comp Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba 214pp MaThoka’s Books (Braamfontein).

SA Gay Plays 2: An Anthology of Plays 1994-2013 comp Robin Malan 326pp Junkets (Mowbray).

The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology; III comp Liesl Jobson xv+230pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

Splinters of a Mirage Dawn: An Anthology of Migrant Poetry from South Africa ed Amitabh Mitra and Naomi Nkealah 87pp Poets Printery (East London).

Criticism

General Studies

African Cultures and Literatures: A Miscellany ed Gordon Collier 544pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) [includes poetry].

African Literatures ed Frank Schulze-Engler and Geoffrey V. Davis 261pp WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (Trier) [extracts from previously published critical works].

African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium ed Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis xii+426pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) [includes poetry, short stories and plays].

“Afro-Gothic: Testing the Term in South African Theater” Esther de Bruijn Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies NS 1(1) pp60-81.

Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film ed Lizelle Bisschoff and Stefanie van de Peer xxxiii+325pp Tauris (London).

Breaking the Silence: South African Representations of HIV/AIDS Ellen Grünkemeier viii+243pp James Currey (Woodbridge, UK).

“The Caine Prize and the Impossibility of ‘New’ African Writing” Samantha Pinto Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies NS 1(1) pp140-9.

Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries ed Hein Viljoen xlvii+282pp Rodopi (Amsterdam).

EnvironMentality: Ecocriticism and the Event of Postcolonial Fiction Roman Bartosch 315pp Rodopi (Amsterdam).

“The Figure of the Older Woman in African Fiction” Agnes Malaza and Catherine Addison Alternation 20(2) pp183-96.

“From Mqhayi to Sole: Four Poems on the Sinking of the Troopship Mendi” Chris Dunton African Literatures and Beyond pp135-48 [see this section].

Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading Isabel Hofmeyr 218pp Harvard Univ Press (Cambridge, Mass).

“The Grammar of Violence, Writing Crime as Fiction” Margie Orford Current Writing 25(2) pp220-9.

“The Growth towards a Truly African Quality in South African Children’s Literature” Jay Heale and Jean Williams Bookbird 51(1) pp87-93.

Imagining the Edgy City: Writing, Performing, and Building Johannesburg Loren Kruger xxv+274pp Oxford Univ Press (New York).

“Looking from South Africa to the World: A Story of Identity for Our Times” Stephen Clingman Safundi 14(3) pp235-54.

Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines Diana Adesola Mafe 208pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York).

“The Mountain and the Devil: Fake Lore or Folklore? A Wonder of the World in South African Children’s Literature” Tanya Barben Bookbird 51(1) pp31-40.

Perceiving Pain in African Literature Zoe Norridge viii+239pp Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke, UK).

“The poetry of Mtshali, Serote, Sepamla and Others in English” Douglas Livingstone English in Africa 40(3) pp65-82 [first pub 1982].

The Politics of Adaptation: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy Astrid van Weyenberg li+215pp Rodopi (Amsterdam).

Postcolonial Literature Dave Gunning xvi+221pp Edinburgh Univ Press (Edinburgh).

Promoting Quintessential African Writing Ishmael Soqaga 42pp Eselby Jnr (Bloemfontein).

Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives ed Reuben Chirambo and J.K.S. Makokha 443pp Rodopi (Amsterdam).

Scintillating Stars from the Vibrant Soil Flaxman Qoopane 45pp Qoopane Literary Service (Bloemfontein).

South Africa’s Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films Litheko Modisane xii+228pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York).

South African Performance and Archives of Memory Yvette Hutchison xii+238pp Manchester Univ Press (Manchester, UK).

States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and Law Stephen Morton vii+249pp Liverpool Univ Press (Liverpool).

Striving for Excellence in South African Literature: Papers Presented at the Second South African Writers’ Symposium, 8 to 10 March 2012 ed Andre Landman viii+116pp Centre for the Book (Cape Town).

Throbbing SA Black Literature ed Christine Mautjana 58pp Mbali Press (Ladybrand).

“Township Textualities” Megan Jones Alternation 20(1) pp26-51.

“Whither/Wither Literature? Some South African Concerns” Michael Chapman English in Africa 40(1) pp59-78.

Writing Africa in the Short Story: African Literature Today 31 ed Ernest N. Emenyonu and Patricia T. Emenyonu xii+179pp James Currey (Woodbridge, UK); HEBN (Ibadan, Nigeria).

“Young South Africans and Cultural (Mal)Practice: Breaking the Silence in Recent Writing” Johan U. Jacobs Literator 34(1) pp[9].

“‘Yours for Socialism’: Communist Cultural Discourse in Early Apartheid South Africa” Corinne Sandwith Safundi 14(3) pp283-306.

Studies On Individual Writers

Abrahams, Lionel “Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid Period” Sonja Altnöder Reading Contemporary African Literature pp335-53 [see Criticism: General].

Abrahams, Peter Political Realities & Their Social Base in Peter Abrahams Fiction Kedari Narasimha Rao 116pp Lambert Academic Publishing (Saarbrücken).

Bailey, Brett “Gazing at Exhibit A: Interview with Brett Bailey” Anton Krueger Liminalities 9(1) pp1-13.

— “Repeating and Disrupting Embodied Histories through Performance: Exhibit A, Mies Julie and Itsoseng” Miki Flockemann Critical Arts 27(4) pp403-17.

Barnard, Anne “The Politics of the Preface: Lady Anne Barnard’s Gendered Negotiations in a Liminal Textual Space” Jessica Murray English Studies in Africa 56(2) pp49-59.

Barrow, John “Mapping and Promoting South Africa: Barrow and Burchell’s Rivalry” Randolph Vigne Historia 58(1) pp18-32.

Behr, Mark “The Seduction of Narration in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples” Jay Rajiva Research in African Literatures 44(4) pp82-98.

— “You Are Where You Aren’t: Mark Behr and the Not-Quite-Global Novel” Jeanne-Marie Jackson Safundi 14(2) pp175-90.

Beukes, Lauren “Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City: Connections” Marleen S. Barr Paradoxa 25 pp131-52.

— “Specters of Cyberpunk: Haunted Spaces in Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland and Zoo City” Malisa Kurtz Paradoxa 25 pp65-87.

Bolaji, Omoseye Bolaji in His Pomp: A Bio-Critical Overview of Writer Omoseye Bolaji Pule Lechesa 103pp Mbali Press (Ladybrand).

Bosman, Herman Charles “Four Unknown Prison Poems by H.C. Bosman” Craig MacKenzie English in Africa 40(2) pp9-23.

Breytenbach, Breyten Breyten Breytenbach: A Monologue in Two Voices Sandra Saayman 85pp Fourthwall Books (Johannesburg).

— “‘I Too Might Once Have Been a Prisoner’: Oppressor’s Paranoia in J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Breyten Breytenbach” Kai Wiegandt Social Dynamics 39(3) pp428-42.

Brink, André Contrary: Critical Responses to the Novels of André Brink ed Willie Burger and Karina Magdalena Szczurek 539pp Protea Book House (Pretoria).

— “Magical Realism: A Narrative of Celebration or Disillusionment? South African Literature in the Transition Period” Paulina Grzęda Ariel 44(1) pp153-83.

Brown, Andrew “Disentangling the Detective in Andrew Brown’s Coldsleep Lullaby” Sabine Binder Current Writing 25(2) pp176-85.

Brutus, Dennis “Caught on Tape: Dennis Brutus’s Questionable Hold on Poet Arthur Nortje” Stephen Gray Current Writing 25(1) pp30-8.

Burchell, William “Mapping and Promoting South Africa: Barrow and Burchell’s Rivalry” Randolph Vigne Historia 58(1) pp18-32.

Campbell, Roy “Amphibious Horses: Beings in the Littoral and Liminal Contact Zones” Wendy Woodward Alternation (6) pp217-31.

— “Where Roy Campbell Stands” Tony Voss Literator 34(1) pp[9].

Christiansë, Yvette “Writing Roots in Post-Apartheid South Africa” Kerry Bystrom Safundi 14(1) pp17-36.

Cloete, Stuart “‘Before God This Was Their Country’: History and Guilt in Stuart Cloete’s Turning Wheels and the Voortrekker Monument” Rebecca Weaver-Hightower English in Africa 40(2) pp101-21.

Coetzee, J.M. “Africa in the Guise: (Mis/Re)Placement in The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee” Robert Kusek pp311-25 in Re/Membering Place ed Catherine Delmas and André Dodeman 343pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt).

— “Arrival: J.M. Coetzee in Cape Town” Jonathan Crewe English in Africa 40(1) pp11-35.

— “Authority, the Newspaper, and Other Media, Including J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime” Brian Macaskill Narrative 21(1) pp19-45.

— “Autobiographical Techniques and the Problems of Memorial Reconstruction: Amis, Coetzee, Kermode and Motion” Nicholas Meihuizen Scrutiny2 18(1) pp13-22.

— Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism: Self-Reflexivity in the Chosen Novels of J.M. Coetzee Marek Pawlicki 195pp Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Newcastle-upon-Tyne).

— “Between Minds and Bodies: The Location of Pain and Racial Trauma in Works by Bessie Head and J.M. Coetzee” Zoe Norridge Perceiving Pain in African Literature pp61-98 [see Criticism: General].

— “Coetzee’s Reciprocal Differends” Arthur Rose Revista de Filosofía 134 pp69-92.

— “Complicity, Entanglement, and Translation: Three English/Afrikaans Texts” Nicole Devarenne Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(1) pp61-76.

— “Contested Epistemological and Ethical Spaces: The Place of Non-Humans in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Harry Sewlall English Academy Review pp76-91.

— “Discourse and Power in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and The Master of Petersburg” Geeta Sharma Research Journal of English Language and Literature 1(3) pp335-40.

— “Entr’acte: Cannibalism, Semiophagy, and the Plunk-Plink-Plonk of Banjo Strings in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Brian Macaskill African Cultures and Literatures pp137-81 [see Criticism: General].

— “Feeling, Affect, Exposure: Ethical (In)Capacity, the Sympathetic Imagination, and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Philip Dickinson Mosaic 46(4) pp1-19.

— “Flinging Accusations into the Teeth of the Wind: J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and Emile Zola’s J’accuse” Craig Smith English Studies in Africa 56(2) pp14-24.

— “‘How Shall I Be Saved?’ The Salvation of Mrs Curren in Coetzee’s Age of Iron” William M. Purcell Transnational Literature 6(1) pp[9].

— “‘I Too Might Once Have Been a Prisoner’: Oppressor’s Paranoia in J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Breyten Breytenbach” Kai Wiegandt Social Dynamics 39(3) pp428-42.

— “J.M. Coetzee: The Novelist as Ethical Thinker” Michael Bell Revista de Filosofía 134 pp29-43.

— J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism Katherine Hallemeier ix+201pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York).

— “Miguel de Cervantes and J.M. Coetzee: An Unacknowledged Paternity” María J. López Journal of Literary Studies 29(4) pp80-97.

— “Mortal Politics: J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron” David Attwell Revista de Filosofía 134 pp9-28.

— “On Rudeness: J.M. Coetzee” Natalie Pollard Parallax 19(3) pp83-103.

— “The Politics of Rape: Traces of Radical Feminism in Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee” Lianne Barnard Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 50(2) pp19-29.

— “Posthumanism and the Wounded Being: ‘Transformative Mimesis’ in The Lives of Animals and Elizabeth Costello” Roman Bartosch EnvironMentality pp255-77 [see Criticism: General].

— Reading Coetzee Elizabeth MacFarlane 191pp Rodopi (Amsterdam).

— “Reading Evil, Writing Evil in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello and The Master of Petersburg” Marek Pawlicki pp133-50 in Fictions and Metafictions of Evil: Essays in Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies ed Grażyna M.T. Branny and J. Gill Holland 256pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt).

— “Redefining ‘Worlds’: The Writerly Ethics in the Trailing Temporality of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Kedari Narasimha Rao SpringerPlus 2 pp143-51.

— “Rewriting History/Animality in J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands and Richard Flanagan’s Wanting” Brian Daniel Deyo Ariel 44(4) pp89-116.

— “‘A Road That May Lead Nowhere’: J.M. Coetzee, Tayeb Salih, and the Hospitality of Vagrant Writing” Mike Marais Revista de Filosofía 134 pp45-67.

— “Searching for Self-Identity: A Postcolonial Study of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Miaomiao Wang Studies in Literature and Language 6(3) pp45-8.

— “Signs Tell Their Own Stories: Rethinking the Status of Writing and Speech in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe” Abdel Karim Daragmeh and Ekremah Shehab African Cultures and Literatures pp183-96 [see Criticism: General].

— “Violent Histories: J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian” Donald Powers Safundi 14(1) pp59-76.

— “Waiting for the Barbarians: The Magistrate’s Identity in a Colonial Context” Abdullah F. Al-Badarneh International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 3(10) pp121-6.

— “War, Silence and Shalom: A Transcendence Pointing toward Ineffable Realities in J.M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K” Kedari Narasimha Rao International Journal of English and Literature 3(2) pp93-102.

— “‘What Used to Lie outside the Frame’: Boundaries of Photography, Subjectivity and Fiction in Three Novels by J.M. Coetzee” Ayala Amir Journal of Literary Studies 29(4) pp58-79.

Coovadia, Imraan “Narrativising the Past: The Quest for Belonging and Citizenship in Post-Apartheid Indian South African Fiction” James Ocita Alternation (6) pp68-90.

Cullinan, Patrick “Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid Period” Sonja Altnöder Reading Contemporary African Literature pp335-53 [see Criticism: General].

Dangor, Achmat “‘Dancing Masquerades’: Narrating Postcolonial Personhood in Three Novels” Aghogho Akpome English in Africa 40(1) pp139-59.

— “Ominous Inevitabilities: Reflecting on South Africa’s Post-Transition Aporia in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit” Aghogho Akpome Africa Spectrum 48(2) pp3-24.

De Kok, Ingrid “South African Literature in the Time of AIDS” Tim Woods Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(2) pp305-24.

Dovey, Ceridwen “South African Literary Cartographies: A Post-Transitional Palimpsest” Ronit Frenkel Ariel 44(1) pp25-44.

Duiker, K. Sello “Constructing Post-Colonial African Sexualities: Identities and Discourses in Mardia Stone’s Konkai and K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams” Andy Carolin Scrutiny2 18(1) pp42-52.

— “Sex in the Text: Representations of Same-Sex Male Intimacies in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams” Andy Carolin and Ronit Frenkel English Studies in Africa 56(2) pp36-48.

Farber, Yael “Repeating and Disrupting Embodied Histories through Performance: Exhibit A, Mies Julie and Itsoseng” Miki Flockemann Critical Arts 27(4) pp403-17.

Fincher, Nellie “Little Houses and Other Children’s Spaces in ‘The Child’s Day’ by Olive Schreiner and The Chronicles of Peach Grove Farm by Nellie Fincher” Elwyn Jenkins English Academy Review 30(2) pp42-52.

First, Ruth “Rehearsing Trauma: The Reader as Interrogator in Prison Narratives” Sandra Young Journal of Literary Studies 29(2) pp101-16.

Fox, Justin “Of Shorelines, Borderlines and Shipwrecks in Justin Fox’s The Marginal Safari: Scouting the Edge of South Africa” Isaac Ndlovu Alternation (6) pp109-29.

Fugard, Athol “Publishing Anti-Apartheid Literature: Athol Fugard’s Statements Plays” Caroline Davis Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(1) pp113-29.

— “The Sea Close By: The Coastal Diaries of Albert Camus, Athol Fugard and Stephen Watson” Hedley Twidle Alternation (6) pp29-67.

— “To Be Is to Be Seen: Postcolonial Theory, Existentialism, and the Theater of Athol Fugard” Richard Thomson Safundi 14(4) pp369-93.

Gordimer, Nadine “The Essential Gesture as Transnational Gesture in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup” Ruth A.H. Lahti Current Writing 25(1) pp39-51.

— “‘I Too Might Once Have Been a Prisoner’: Oppressor’s Paranoia in J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Breyten Breytenbach” Kai Wiegandt Social Dynamics 39(3) pp428-42.

— “‘Imagine Someone Speaking as They Speak’: Linguistic Divide and Convoluted Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nadine Gordimer’s Apartheid-Era Work” Michael Andindilile Postcolonial Text 8(1) pp[21].

— “Representing the Unpresentable: Between the Secular and the Spiritual in Gordimer’s Post-Apartheid Fiction” Ileana Dimitriu Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries pp1-25 [see Criticism: General].

— “A Return to Senses: The Healthy Self in Nadine Gordimer’s Writings” Luiza Maria Caraivan Romanian Journal of English Studies 9(1), 2013 pp182-193.

Govender, Ronnie “Narrativising the Past: The Quest for Belonging and Citizenship in Post-Apartheid Indian South African Fiction” James Ocita Alternation (6) pp68-90.

Hassim, Aziz “Narrativising the Past: The Quest for Belonging and Citizenship in Post-Apartheid Indian South African Fiction” James Ocita Alternation (6) pp68-90.

Head, Bessie “Between Minds and Bodies: The Location of Pain and Racial Trauma in Works by Bessie Head and J.M. Coetzee” Zoe Norridge Perceiving Pain in African Literature pp61-98 [see Criticism: General].

— “Snapshots of the Botswana Nation: Bessie Head’s The Collector of Treasures & Other Botswana Village Tales as a National Project” Louisa Uchum Egbunike Writing Africa in the Short Story pp65-76 [see Criticism: General].

— “Traumatic Divisions: The Collective and Interpersonal in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather” Alan Ramón Ward Postcolonial Text 8(1) pp[15].

Herne, Lily “A Zombie Apocalypse: Opening Representational Spaces for Alternative Constructions of Gender and Sexuality” Jessica Murray Journal of Literary Studies 29(4) pp1-19.

Heyns, Michiel “Fears and Desires in South African Crime Fiction” Sam Naidu Journal of Southern African Studies 39(3) pp727-38.

— “Interrogating Conceptions of Childhood in Contemporary African Fiction” Jack Kearney Scrutiny2 18(2) pp46-65.

Irving, David “Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the South African Township” Megan Jones Safundi 14(2) pp209-24.

Kani, John “Publishing Anti-Apartheid Literature: Athol Fugard’s Statements Plays” Caroline Davis Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(1) pp113-29.

— “To Be Is to Be Seen: Postcolonial Theory, Existentialism, and the Theater of Athol Fugard” Richard Thomson Safundi 14(4) pp369-93.

Karodia, Farida “Fictionalizing South Asian Diasporic Homemaking: Farida Karodia’s Other Secrets & Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night” Sissy Helff pp51-106 in Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women’s Fiction of the Diaspora Sissy Helff xix+210pp Rodopi (Amsterdam).

— “In the Dialectic of Memory: Rediscovering Graced Fatherhood in Farida Karodia’s Stories” Sope Maithufi Scrutiny2 18(1) pp4-12.

Kgositsile, Keorapetse “‘The Universal Is the Entire Collection of Particulars’: Grounding Identity in a Shared Horizon of Humanity” Mukti Lakhi Mangharam College Literature 40(3) pp81-98.

Khumalo, Sihle “Sihle Khumalo, Cape to Cairo, and Questions of Intertextuality: How to Write about Africa, How to Read about Africa” Carli Coetzee Research in African Literatures 44(2) pp62-75.

Kohler, Sheila “Stereotypes and Subversions: Reading Queer Representations in Two Contemporary South African Novels” Jessica Murray English in Africa 40(1) pp119-38.

Krog, Antjie “Complicity, Entanglement, and Translation: Three English/Afrikaans Texts” Nicole Devarenne Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(1) pp61-76.

— “Navigating the Interstitial Boundaries in Lady Anne by Antjie Krog” Hein Viljoen Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries pp251-77 [see Criticism: General].

— “Responding to Pain, from Healing to Human Rights: Aminatta Forna, Antjie Krog and James Orbinski” Zoe Norridge Perceiving Pain in African Literature pp166-209 [see Criticism: General].

— “Truth Will Set You Free: Implications of a Creative Narrative for the ‘Official’ Discourse of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission” Robyn Leslie Art and Trauma in Africa pp170-91 [see Criticism: General].

La Guma, Alex “Exposition of Apartheid South African Violence & Injustice in Alex La Guma’s Short Stories” Blessing Diala-Ogamba Writing Africa in the Short Story pp115-26 [see Criticism: General].

— Fiction and Freedom: Alex La Guma and Apartheid South Africa Uzoechi Nwagbara 108pp Lambert Academic Publishing (Saarbrücken).

— “Open Sores of a Republic: Injustice and Poverty as Motifs in Alex La Guma’s First Three Novels” O. Victor Ogbeide International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature 2(6) pp42-8.

Livingstone, Douglas “By Way of an Introduction: A Memoir of Douglas Livingstone” Stephen Gray English in Africa 40(3) pp11-24.

— “Monica Fairall Interviews Douglas Livingstone, July 1993” Monica Fairall English in Africa 40(3) pp137-47.

— “The NELM Collection” Mariss Stevens English in Africa 40(3) pp25-32.

— “Select Bibliography” comp Lynne Grant, Andrew Martin and Mariss Stevens English in Africa 40(3) pp149-66.

— “Witness to the Makeshift Shore: Ecological Practice in A Littoral Zone” Julia Martin Alternation (6) pp144-56.

Lotz, Sarah “Reading Crime through a Gender Lens: Intersections of Shame, Women’s Alcohol Consumption and Sexual Vulnerability in a Crime Novel by Sarah Lotz” Jessica Murray Current Writing 25(2) pp210-19.

Mackenzie, Jassy “‘You Think It’s Possible to Fix Broken Things?’ Terror in the South African Crime Fiction of Margie Orford and Jassy Mackenzie” Marla Harris Clues 31(2) pp122-31.

Maclennan, Don “Flight When Dusk Is Falling: An Interview with Don Maclennan (1929-2009)” Neil Rusch New Contrast 161 41(1) pp69-93.

Mandela, Nelson “The Repetition of the Nomos of Cultural Memory in Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Mamphela Ramphele’s A Life” Michael Kgomotso Masemola Critical African Studies 5(2) pp67-78.

Mann, Chris “Ways of Being a Poet: Chris Mann” Chris Miller PN Review 209 39(3) pp36-40.

Maseko, Bheki “Reclaiming Masculinities: Migrant Realism in Bheki Maseko’s Stories” Sope Maithufi Journal of Literary Studies 29(1) pp79-95.

Mashinini, Emma “Rehearsing Trauma: The Reader as Interrogator in Prison Narratives” Sandra Young Journal of Literary Studies 29(2) pp101-16.

Matlwa, Kopano “‘In Every Classroom Children Are Dying’: Race, Power and Nervous Conditions in Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut” Gugu Hlongwane Alternation 20(1) pp9-25.

— “Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut and the Dialectics of Race in South Africa: Interrogating Images of Whiteness and Blackness in Black Literature and Culture” Aretha Phiri Safundi 14(2) pp161-74.

Mda, Zakes “Communities of Mourning and Vulnerability: Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” María J. López English in Africa 40(1) pp99-117.

— “From Neglected History to Tourist Attraction: Reordering the Past in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness” Ana Luisa Oliveira Goncalves Pires Ariel 44(1) pp127-51.

— “Magical Realism: A Narrative of Celebration or Disillusionment? South African Literature in the Transition Period” Paulina Grzęda Ariel 44(1) pp153-83.

— “Rituals of Remembrance in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness” Erica Still pp81-96 in Literary Expressions of African Spirituality ed Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West 248pp Lexington Books (Lanham, Md).

— “Sea Changes, Dark Tides and Littoral States: Oceans and Coastlines in Post-Apartheid South African Narratives” Meg Samuelson Alternation (6) pp9-28.

— “Telling Lives: Myth, Metaphor and Metafiction in Zakes Mda’s Cion” Marita Wenzel Reading Contemporary African Literature pp127-38 [see Criticism: General].

— “The Uses of F(r)iction: The Heart of Redness, The Whale Caller and Their Critique of Sustainable Development and Becoming-Animal” Roman Bartosch EnvironMentality pp161-87 [see Criticism: General].

Meeran, Zinaid “Stereotypes and Subversions: Reading Queer Representations in Two Contemporary South African Novels” Jessica Murray English in Africa 40(1) pp119-38.

Meyer, Deon “Cape Town, City of Crime in South African Fiction” Claudia Drawe Current Writing 25(2) pp186-95.

— “Fears and Desires in South African Crime Fiction” Sam Naidu Journal of Southern African Studies 39(3) pp727-38.

Millin, Sarah Gertrude “National Citizens, Global Economies: Sarah Gertrude Millin and the Professionalization of Envy” Matthew Eatough Safundi 14(4) pp395-424.

Moele, Kgebetli “Racial Power and Colorblindness: The ‘Sad Black Stories’ of Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207 and Twenty-First Century Black South African Fiction” Marzia Milazzo Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies NS 1(1) pp33-59.

— “South African Literary Cartographies: A Post-Transitional Palimpsest” Ronit Frenkel Ariel 44(1) pp25-44.

Molope, Kagiso Lesego “The House of Mothers: Constructing Alternative Forms of Mothering in Kagiso Lesego Molope’s The Mending Season” Lynda Gichanda Spencer English Academy Review 30(1) pp52-64.

Molusi, Omphile “Repeating and Disrupting Embodied Histories through Performance: Exhibit A, Mies Julie and Itsoseng” Miki Flockemann Critical Arts 27(4) pp403-17.

Mpe, Phaswane “Communities of Mourning and Vulnerability: Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” María J. López English in Africa 40(1) pp99-117.

— “Contagion, Cosmopolitanism, and Human Rights in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” Emily S. Davis College Literature 40(3) pp99-112.

— “The Palimpsest of Process and the Search for Truth in South Africa: How Phaswane Mpe Wrote Welcome to Uur Hillbrow” Benjamin H. Ogden Safundi 14(2) pp191-208.

— “South African Literary Cartographies: A Post-Transitional Palimpsest” Ronit Frenkel Ariel 44(1) pp25-44.

— “South African Literature in the Time of AIDS” Tim Woods Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(2) pp305-24.

Murray, Sally-Ann “Interrogating Conceptions of Childhood in Contemporary African Fiction” Jack Kearney Scrutiny2 18(2) pp46-65.

Mzobe, Sifiso “Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the South African Township” Megan Jones Safundi 14(2) pp209-24.

Nair, Roshila “‘Fanon’s No-Man’s Land’: The Difficult Inheritance of Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa’s HIV/AIDS Literature” Elliot Ross Scrutiny2 18(2) pp36-45.

Nicol, Mike “Cape Town, City of Crime in South African Fiction” Claudia Drawe Current Writing 25(2) pp186-95.

Nkosi, Lewis “The Ambiguities of Exile: Lewis Nkosi, Literary Critic” Michael Chapman English Academy Review 30(1) pp6-21.

— “The Sentence(d) Story-Teller: Forged and Legitimated Constructions in Nkosi’s Mating Birds and Pepetela’s Mayombe” Muchativugwa Liberty Hove Journal of Pan-African Studies 6(5) pp63-73.

Nortje, Arthur “Caught on Tape: Dennis Brutus’s Questionable Hold on Poet Arthur Nortje” Stephen Gray Current Writing 25(1) pp30-8.

— “Divided Personas in the Early Poetry of Arthur Nortje” Neville Smith Current Writing 25(1) pp20-9.

Ntshona, Winston “Publishing Anti-Apartheid Literature: Athol Fugard’s Statements Plays” Caroline Davis Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(1) pp113-29.

— “To Be Is to Be Seen: Postcolonial Theory, Existentialism, and the Theater of Athol Fugard” Richard Thomson Safundi 14(4) pp369-93.

Oa Magogodi, Kgafela “South African Literature in the Time of AIDS” Tim Woods Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(2) pp305-24.

Orford, Margie “‘The Girl was Stripped, Splayed and Penetrated’: Representations of Gender and Violence in Margie Orford’s Crime Fiction” Jessica Murray English Academy Review 30(2) pp67-78.

— “Margie Orford’s Daddy’s Girl and the Possibilities of Feminist Crime Fiction” Elizabeth Fletcher Current Writing 25(2) pp196-209.

— “‘Vrou is Gif’: The Representation of Violence against Women in Margie Orford’s Clare Hart Novels” Louise Vincent and Samantha Naidu African Safety Promotion Journal 11(2) pp48-62.

— “‘You Think It’s Possible to Fix Broken Things?’ Terror in the South African Crime Fiction of Margie Orford and Jassy Mackenzie” Marla Harris Clues 31(2) pp122-31.

Paton, Alan “Alan Paton and the Logos” Douglas Livingstone English in Africa 40(3) pp127-36 [biographical; first pub 1995].

— “Cinematic Cities: A ‘Film and History’ Overview for South Africa’s Major Metropolises from the 1890s to the 1950s” Vivian Bickford-Smith Journal of Southern African Studies 39(3) pp681-99.

Schonstein, Patricia “Sea Changes, Dark Tides and Littoral States: Oceans and Coastlines in Post-Apartheid South African Narratives” Meg Samuelson Alternation (6) pp9-28.

Plaatje, Sol T. “Solomon Plaatje’s Decade of Creative Mobility, 1912-1922: The Politics of Travel and Writing in and Beyond South Africa” Janet Remmington Journal of Southern African Studies 39(2) pp425-46.

Radloff, Adeline L. “Writing 9/11 for Teenagers: Sidekick and the ‘Meg’s Diary’ Blog” Bonnie Kneen Scrutiny2 18(1) pp23-31.

Ramphele, Mamphela “The Repetition of the Nomos of Cultural Memory in Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Mamphela Ramphele’s A Life” Michael Kgomotso Masemola Critical African Studies 5(2) pp67-78.

Reitz, Deneys “Deneys Reitz and the Bounds of Self-Understanding” John Gouws Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries pp51-74 [see Criticism: General].

Rose-Innes, Henrietta “Invasive Species and the Territorial Machine: Shifting Interfaces between Ecology and the Postcolonial” Filippo Menozzi Ariel 44(4) pp181-204.

Sachs, Albie “Revelation and Legitimation in Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law” Patrick Lenta English in Africa 40(1) pp79-97.

Scholtz, A.H.M. “Complicity, Entanglement, and Translation: Three English/Afrikaans Texts” Nicole Devarenne Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(1) pp61-76.

Schonstein, Patricia “Sea Changes, Dark Tides and Littoral States: Oceans and Coastlines in Post-Apartheid South African Narratives” Meg Samuelson Alternation (6) pp9-28.

Schreiner, Olive “‘I’m Really Going to Kill Him This Time’: Olive Schreiner, W.T. Stead, and the Politics of Publicity in the Review of Reviews” Clare Gill Victorian Periodicals Review 46(2) pp184-210.

— “Little Houses and Other Children’s Spaces in ‘The Child’s Day’ by Olive Schreiner and The Chronicles of Peach Grove Farm by Nellie Fincher” Elwyn Jenkins English Academy Review 30(2) pp42-52.

— “Narrative Decomposition for Utopian (Re-)Composition: The New (Wo)Man in Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man” Mei-Fang Chang Research in African Literatures 44(1) pp106-27.

— Olive Schreiner Carolyn Burdett xiv+106pp Northcote House in association with the British Council (Tavistock, UK).

— “The Transnational Circulation of Dissent: Olive Schreiner and the Colonial Counter-Flows of Unitarian Freethinking” Simon Lewis Safundi 14(1) pp1-15.

— “Two Dissident Dream-Walkers: The Hardly Explored Reformist Alliance between Olive Schreiner and Edward Carpenter” Stephen Gray English Academy Review 30(2) pp53-66.

Serote, Mongane Wally “Hunger like Sand on the Tongue: On Rereading Yakhal’inkomo by Mongane Wally Serote, Forty Years after Its Publication” Denis Hirson New Contrast 161 41(1) pp36-51.

— “‘Senses of Silence’: Historical Trauma in To Every Birth Its Blood” Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo Journal of Literary Studies 29(3) pp99-118.

— “Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid Period” Sonja Altnöder Reading Contemporary African Literature pp335-53 [see Criticism: General].

Slovo, Gillian “Torture, Betrayal and Forgiveness: Red Dust and the Search for Truth in Post-Apartheid South Africa” Annelies Verdoolaege pp135-55 in Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema ed Nigel Eltringham 176pp Berghahn (New York).

Smith, Pauline “Space and the Body in Pauline Smith’s ‘The Pastor’s Daughter’” Myrtle Hooper English in Africa 40(2) pp79-99.

Smith, Roger “Cape Town, City of Crime in South African Fiction” Claudia Drawe Current Writing 25(2) pp186-95.

Suzman, Janet “Subversion versus Inversion: The Loss of the Carnivalesque in Janet Suzman’s The Free State” Lida Krüger, Hein Viljoen and Marita Wenzel Journal of Literary Studies 29(3) pp82-98.

— “The Visual Representation of the Boundary between Past and Present: Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Suzman’s The Free State” Lida Krüger Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries pp93-112 [see Criticism: General].

Swift, Mark “Images of Time and Death in Mark Swift” Geoffrey Haresnape New Contrast 162 41(2) pp8-13.

Taylor, Jane “Truth Will Set You Free: Implications of a Creative Narrative for the ‘Official’ Discourse of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission” Robyn Leslie Art and Trauma in Africa pp170-91 [see Criticism: General].

Tema, Botlhale “Writing Roots in Post-Apartheid South Africa” Kerry Bystrom Safundi 14(1) pp17-36.

Tlali, Miriam “Writing Apartheid: Miriam Tlali’s Soweto Stories” Mary Jane Androne Writing Africa in the Short Story pp25-39 [see Criticism: General].

Van der Post, Laurens “Ghosts in the Shell: On South Africa, the USA and Japan” Daniel McKay Safundi 14(4) pp425-41.

Vladislavic, Ivan “Re-Assembling the City in Ivan Vladislavic’s Novels” Luiza Caraivan Romanian Journal of English Studies 10(1) pp228-33.

— “Zoo-Keeping in Johannesburg: Man/Beast Contestations in Ivan Vladislavic’s Portrait with Keys” Kirby Manià Current Writing 25(1) pp100-13.

Walter, Brian “Estuary: Brian Walter’s Swartkops Poems” Dan Wylie Alternation (6) pp157-74.

Watson, Stephen “The Sea Close By: The Coastal Diaries of Albert Camus, Athol Fugard and Stephen Watson” Hedley Twidle Alternation (6) pp29-67.

Westby-Nunn, Terry “‘My Skin, a Parchment of Tales’: Trauma, Wounding and the Post-Apartheid Gothic in Terry Westby-Nunn’s The Sea of Wise Insects” Rebecca Duncan Current Writing 25(1) pp76-87.

Wicomb, Zoë “The Dailiness of Trauma and Liberation in Zoë Wicomb” Saikat Majumdar pp101-33 in Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire Saikat Mujamdar 248pp Columbia Univ Press (New York).

— “The Ethics of Waste in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town” Ian Whittington Safundi 14(3) pp327-44.

— “‘I’m only Grateful that it’s not a Cape Town Book’, or, Zoë Wicomb, Textuality, Propriety, and the Proprietary” Andrew van der Vlies Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(1) pp9-25.

Non-fiction

Auster, Paul Benjamin and J.M. Coetzee Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011 248pp Faber and Faber; Harvill Secker (London).

Beiles, Sinclair Bone Hebrew ed Gerard Bellaart 76pp Cold Turkey Press (Rotterdam) [multi-genre].

Bolaji, Omoseye It Couldn’t Matter Less: A Selection of Recent Writings 103pp Eselby Jnr (Bloemfontein).

Brown, Ryan A Native of Nowhere: The Life of Nat Nakasa xx+216pp Jacana Media (Cape Town).

Coetzee, J.M. and Herman Parret Cripplewood: Berlinde De Bruyckere at the Biennale Di Venezia 128pp Yale Univ Press (New Haven, Conn).

Driver, C.J. My Brother & I 128pp Kingston Univ Press (Kingston-upon-Thames).

Engler, Hagen Comrade Baby…and Other South African Adventures 211pp Pocket Assegaai (Port Elizabeth) [essays].

— Marrying Black Girls for Guys Who Aren’t Black 212pp Jacana Media (Auckland Park).

Garisch, Dawn Dance with Suitcase: A Memoir Resting on Movement 130pp Tiber Tree Press (Cape Town).

Haupt, Carel Albregt Into the Hitherto Unknown: Ensign Beutler’s Expedition to the Eastern Cape, 1752 trans Thea Toussaint van Hove and Michael Wilson lxiii+209pp Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of South African Historical Documents (Cape Town).

Kärrström, E.J. Eighteen Years in South Africa: A Swedish Gold-Digger’s Account of His Adventures in the Land of Gold 1877-1896 trans from the Swedish by Ione and Jalmar Rudner 229pp Africana Publishers (Cape Town).

Katopodis, Katy (I’m Missing News): When Hard News and Parenting Collide x+230pp Pan Macmillan (Johannesburg).

Khumalo, Sihle Almost Sleeping My Way to Timbuktu: West Africa on a Shoestring by Public Transport with No French 287pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Mngxitama, Andile and Aryan Kaganof From a Place of Blackness: A Correspondence 189pp Sankara Publishers (Melville).

Mphahlele, Es’kia Afrika My Music: An Autobiography 1957-1983 245pp Kwela (Cape Town) [first pub 1984].

Rohde, Hillary The Other Side 300pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Schoeman, Karel Portrait of a Slave Society: The Cape of Good Hope, 1717–1795 1339pp Protea Book House (Pretoria).

Shand, Kate Boy: The Story of My Teenage Son’s Suicide 210pp MFBooks Joburg (Johannesburg).

Shober, Dianne Sindiwe Magona: Climbing Higher 272pp David Philip (Cape Town).

Siddall, James Dystopia vii+207pp MFBooks Joburg (Johannesburg).

Strasbourg, Toni Fractured Lives 314pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Vernon, Gillian Even the Cows Were Amazed: Shipwreck Survivors in South-East Africa, 1552-1782 176pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Viljoen, Shaun Richard Rive: A Partial Biography xxix+258pp Wits Univ Press (Johannesburg).

Vundla, Peter Doing Time xix+241pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Wanner, Zukiswa Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam v+100pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg) [satire and humour].

Wasserfall, Margaret My Granny’s Pantry: A Kitchen Memoir 228pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Webster, Roger At the Fireside 4: True Southern African Stories viii+219pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

Webster, Trevor Healdtown: Under the Eagle’s Wings: The Legacy of An African Mission School 191pp Methodist Publishing House (Cape Town).

Wieder, Alan Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid 390pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Wylie, Dan Crocodile 222pp Reaktion Books (London).

Journals

Special Issues

Alternation: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa 6 ed Johannes A. Smit: special edition Coastlines and Littoral Zones in South African Ecocritical Writing ed Hermann Wittenberg 245pp.

Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 44(1) ed Shaobo Xie: special issue Trends in the Development of the New African Novel ed Ogaga Okuyade 193pp.

Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 25(2) ed Catherine Addison and others: special issue Crime Fiction, South Africa ed Sam Naidu pp123-235.

English in Africa 40(3) ed Gareth Cornwall: special issue South African Literary History Project: Douglas Livingstone’s Prose Writings ed Stephen Gray and Dirk Klopper 166pp.

Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies NS 1(1) ed Gautam Kundu: special issue African Writing in the Twenty-First Century ed Lindsey Green-Simms and Simon K. Lewis iii+210pp.

Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(1) ed Claire Chambers and Susan Watkins: special issue Postcolonial Print Cultures ed Sarah Brouillette and David Finkelstein 175pp.

Research in African Literatures 44(2) ed Kwaku Larbi Korang: special issue (In)Visibility in African Cultures ed Zoe Norridge, Charlotte Baker and Elleke Boehmer xi+180pp.

New Journals

Prufrock: A Magazine of Writing (Cape Town); quarterly; first issue Autumn 2013 [creative and critical writing].

Introduction: Zimbabwe

Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, died in November 2013. Born in present day Iran, Lessing moved with her British family to Zimbabwe when she was five. Although she moved back to England in 1949, many of her books had an African setting. She wrote more than fifty books, including novels, short stories and memoirs. Her final publication was a reissue of the novella Adore which follows the transgressive relationships of two friends who fall in love with each other’s teenage sons. It was previously published in The Grandmothers, a 2005 collection of four stories.

If Zimbabwe, and the world, said farewell to an acclaimed author, there was a new writer to be welcomed. NoViolet Bulawayo has won awards for individual short stories, but her debut novel We Need New Names took the world by storm. It was the first Zimbabwean book to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; it won the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature (a pan-African prize for a first book), the PEN/Hemingway Foundation award and others. The novel follows the narrator from her childhood in a Zimbabwean slum to her teenage years in America, where she finds the “promised land” holds its own challenges. Through the child’s voice Bulawayo explores the pain of exile, displacement and the migrant experience.

Shadows by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is another award-winning book exploring migrancy and exile. The collection contains a novella and five short stories set in Bulawayo and Johannesburg which depict contemporary life in Zimbabwe and the experiences of being a foreigner in South Africa. Tshuma is now living in South Africa, where the book was published and won the Herman Charles Bosman Prize. Two more impressive debuts were published in South Africa: One Green Bottle by Debrah Anne Nixon is set in South Africa, where the author now lives, and depicts a woman’s struggle with mental illness, while Sibanda and the Rain Bird by C.M. Elliott is a crime novel set in a game park in Zimbabwe.

Two novels for teenagers appeared, both by writers who have since left Zimbabwe. Nancy Farmer follows up the award-winning The House of the Scorpion with The Lord of Opium, a science fiction novel set in 2137 featuring a young boy who is the clone of a drug dealer. The novel addresses drugs, cloning and environmental devastation. Na’ima B. Robert sets Black Sheep in contemporary England and shows a teenage romance complicated by parental disapproval and dark secrets.

Within Zimbabwe, National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) went to Charles Mungoshi for Branching Streams Flow in the Dark and Solomon Mwapangidza for Rebel Soldier (for best first book). Interestingly both novels feature female protagonists. Branching Streams Flow in the Dark is Mungoshi’s fifth novel and his second in English. It took more than twenty years to complete and is set before the availability of antiretroviral medication, when HIV was a death sentence. The main character, in despair after the death of her child from AIDS and the desertion of her husband, begins a long letter to an old friend where she looks back at her life, confronting the ghosts of her past and searching for some hope. Rebel Soldier explores patriarchal oppression within the political struggle for independence.

The past is a frequent concern in fiction. The Zebra Crossings by Tsitsi Tsopotsa has a doomed inter-racial romance in 1970s Rhodesia, The Hissing Tree by A.M. Winter is a coming-of-age account of a young white girl in the 1950s, while Alan Cartwright’s The Wreck of the Lauradonna moves between past and present, with a group of teenagers discovering the journal of a survivor of a 1696 shipwreck, a find which plunges them into adventure and danger.

More recent concerns appear in Double Rainbow at Full Moon by B.A.K. Sim and Sakam Expresss by Lilian Masitera which shows people’s struggle to survive the economic collapse, while Black Mamba White Settler by Ken Tilbury depicts the farm invasions. A number of thrillers include Fear No Evil by Robert Burslem and Empress Gold by Jeffrey Whittam, a sequel to Sons of Africa. The Hangman’s Replacement by Taona Dumisani Chiveneko is a horror novel involving carnivorous flowers whose discovery at the Great Zimbabwe monument triggers a search for a new executioner.

The Sting in the Twisted Tale by Emmanuel Chinyamakobvu includes extracts or adaptations from the author’s novels as well as new stories. Chapindapasi is the third collection from Maxwell Perkins Kanemanyanga. Novelist Judy Croome produces a collection of stories The Weight of a Feather. Mukoma’s Marriage and Other Stories by Emmanuel Sigauke is a promising debut. Writing Lives, edited by Irene Staunton, is the seventh anthology from Weaver Press and brings together a range of new and established voices.

The majority of the novels were self-published, including the two award-winners noted. As so little is being published in Zimbabwe, all novels that could be located were listed.

Only four poetry books are listed. Homeward Bound is a small anthology of poems, primarily by Shingi Vavima, but including a few others. The Boiling Cauldron by Oliver Kapepa explores socio-political problems. Once a Lover Always a Fool is the debut collection by Philani Amadéus Nyoni and won a NAMA award in the “Outstanding First Creative Work Published” category. The collection examines gender roles, love, loss, religion and renewal. In Slow Fires Dan Wylie joins with artist Roxandra Dardagan Britz. Her etchings of animals combine with Wylie’s poems to provide commentary on Zimbabwean life and politics.

Wylie also has a work of non-fiction, Crocodile. It is part of the international “Animal” series and examines crocodiles in history, art, literature and myth. Tendai Mwanaka is a poet and novelist. His latest book Zimbabwe: The Blame Game is creative non-fiction, a series of interlinked essays, articles and memoir commenting on the politics of contemporary Zimbabwe.

Criticism of Zimbabwean literature was also sparse. Of the authors listed in the bibliography only Lessing, Mungoshi and Sigauke have entries in the Individual Studies section. Authors with more than one article are Tsitsi Dangarembga, Chenjerai Hove, Doris Lessing, Dambudzo Marechera and Yvonne Vera, with a collection of critical essays Reading Marechera edited by Grant Hamilton the only book-length study. It is hoped that the persistent efforts of the writers, and the international success of authors like NoViolet Bulawayo will encourage increased interest in publishing and studying Zimbabwean literature.

Bibliography: Zimbabwe

Poetry

Kapepa, Oliver The Boiling Cauldron and Other Boiling Poems 78pp Diaspora Publishers (UK).

Nyoni, Philani Amadéus Once a Lover Always a Fool 58pp Pan (Harare).

Wylie, Dan Slow Fires: Poems 53pp Fourthwall Books (Johannesburg).

Drama

Kennedy, Elinor My Big Fat Shona Wedding and Other Plays 1 vol self-pub (Hamilton, New Zealand).

Wolffe, Bart Africa Dream Theatre 268pp self-pub (London).

Fiction

Bulawayo, NoViolet We Need New Names 294pp Chatto & Windus (London).

Burslem, Robert Fear No Evil 354pp self-pub (Sandy Cove, Ireland).

Cartwright, Allan The Wreck of the Lauradonna 338pp self-pub (Charleston, SC).

Chinyamakobvu, Emmanuel The Sting in the Twisted Tale 444pp self-pub (n.p.) [short stories].

Chiveneko, Taona Dumisani The Hangman’s Replacement: Sprout of Disruption 492pp self-pub (n.p.)

Croome, Judy The Weight of a Feather and Other Stories 191pp Aztar Press (Johannesburg).

Dhuwe, Sibusiswe Banking on Love 144pp Sapphire Press (Cape Town).

Elliott, C.M. Sibanda and the Rainbird Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Farmer, Nancy The Lord of Opium 411pp Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York) [for young adults].

Farren, Larry Once an African 328pp Original Writing (Dublin).

Graham, Phil Dare to Flee: The Last of the Bushmen vii+282pp Strategic Book (Houston, Tex).

Kanemanyanga, Maxwell Perkins Chapindapasi: The Man Who Disappeared: Short Stories 51pp Eselby Jnr (Bloemfontein).

Kaschula, Janet Rosie the African Elephant 159pp self-pub (Harare).

Lessing, Doris Adore: A Novella 112pp Harper Perennial (London).

Mackenzie, Roderick Night Journey 249pp Karnac (London).

Magomana, Trymore Ill at Ease 215pp Longshore Press (USA).

Masitera, Lilian Saskam Express 184pp Now I Can Play Publications (n.p.).

M’Cwabeni, Tracy Not All Bid Farewell 306pp self-pub (Bloomington, Ind).

Mungoshi, Charles Branching Streams Flow in the Dark 164pp Mungoshi Press (Harare).

Mwapangidza, Solomon Rebel Soldier 200pp AuthorHouse (UK).

Nixon, Debrah Anne One Green Bottle 283pp Modjaji (Cape Town).

Richert, Jerold Dance of the Firebirds: A Shattering Novel of Love, Murder, Female Genital Mutilation, Terrorism and British Government Intrigue at the Highest Level 418pp Eloquent Books (n.p.).

Robert, Na’ima B., pseud Black Sheep 370pp Frances Lincoln Children’s Books (London) [for young adults].

Shoronga, Tonderai I Crossed the River 288pp FastPrint (n.p.).

Sigauke, Emmanuel Mukoma’s Marriage and Other Stories Booklove (Harare).

Sim, B.A.K. Double Rainbow at Full Moon: Surviving the Collapse of Zimbabwe 284pp Agio Publishing House (Victoria, BC)

Tilbury, Ken Black Mamba White Settler 322pp self-pub (UK).

Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa Shadows 189pp Kwela (Cape Town)

Tsopotsa, Tsitsi The Zebra Crossings 414pp self-pub (n.p.).

Whittam, Jeffrey Sons of Africa 426pp Cocopan Publishing (UK).

— Empress Gold 356pp Cocopan Publishing (UK).

Winter, A.M., pseud The Hissing Tree 362pp self-pub (Charleston, SC).

Anthologies

Homeward Bound: Poems Shingi Mavima and others 36pp self-pub (n.p.).

Writing Lives ed Irene Staunton ix+96pp Weaver Press (Harare) [short stories].

Criticism

General Studies

“Locating a Genre: Is Zimbabwe a Short Story Country?” Tinashe Mushakavanhu Writing Africa in the Short Story pp127-34 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

“‘Shine Your Light, Zimbabwe’” Geoffrey V. Davis African Literatures and Beyond pp121-34 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

“Theorising Women Existence: Reflections on the Relevance of the Africana Womanist Theory in the Writing and Analysis of Literature by and about Zimbabwean Women” Tendai Mangena Researchers World 4(1) pp7-14.

Studies On Individual Writers

Chung, Fay “Masculinities and Femininities in Zimbabwean Autobiographies of Political Struggle: The Case of Edgar Tekere and Fay Chung” Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi Journal of Literary Studies 29(3) pp119-39.

Dangarembga, Tsitsi “Decolonising the ‘Epistemic Decolonial Turn’ in Women’s Fiction: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s She No Longer Weeps (1987) and Federico Garcia Lorca’s Dona Rosita the Spinster (2008)” Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Khatija Khan African Identities 11(3) pp304-17.

— “Interrogating Conceptions of Childhood in Contemporary African Fiction” Jack Kearney Scrutiny2 18(2) pp46-65.

— “The Position of Women in Zulu and Shona Societies: The Case of Uvalo Lwezinhlonzi and Nervous Conditions” Nompumelelo B. Zondi Alternation 20(2) pp164-82.

Gascoigne, Michael “Fictions, Nation-Building and Ideologies of Belonging in Children’s Literature: An Analysis of Tunzi the Faithful Shadow” Cuthbeth Tagwirei Children’s Literature in Education 44(1) pp44-56.

Godwin, Peter “Deformity, Disability and Marginality in Zimbabwean Literary Discourse” Muchativugwa Liberty Hove Journal of Multicultural Discourses 8(2) pp134-44.

Harrison, Eric “Black Zimbabwean Women and ‘Jambanja’ in Eric Harrison’s Jambanja (2006): An Africana Womanist Exegesis” Ruby Magosvongwe, Abner Nyamende and Tavengwa Gwekwerere South African Journal of African Languages 33(2) pp125-32.

Hartmann, Ivor W. “Can You Hear Africa Roar? StoryTime and the Digital Publishing Innovations of Ivor Hartmann and Emmanuel Sigauke” Tsitsi Jaji Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies NS 1(1) pp122-39.

Hove, Chenjerai “Feminist Discourses in Chenjerai Hove’s and Yvonne Vera’s Selected Nationalist Narratives” Tendai Mangena International Journal of English and Literature 4(4) pp141-5.

— “‘In This Wound of Life…’: Dystopias and Dystopian Tropes in Chenjerai Hove’s Red Hills of Home” Anias Mutekwa Journal of Literary Studies 29(4) pp98-115.

— “Male Voices in Female Bodies: The Case of Chenjerai Hove’s Androcentrism” Bhala Timothy, Kadodo Webster and Bhebe Cordial English Language and Literature Studies 3(1) pp47-54.

Huchu, Tendai “‘The Festering Finger?’ Reimagining Minority Sexuality in Tendai Huchu’s The Hairdresser of Harare and Abdellah Taïa’s Une Mélancolie Arabe” Gibson Ncube Current Writing 25(1) pp66-75.

Kanengoni, Alexander T. “Deformity, Disability and Marginality in Zimbabwean Literary Discourse” Muchativugwa Liberty Hove Journal of Multicultural Discourses 8(2) pp134-44.

Lessing, Doris “Anticipating Apocalypse: Power Structures and the Periphery in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child and Ben, in the World” Muhammad Saiful Islam Romanian Journal of English Studies 10(1) pp276-90.

— “A Catalogue of Failures: Error and Processual Utopia in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook” Shannon Maguire Doris Lessing Studies 31(1/2) pp4-8.

— “Doris Lessing, 1919-2013” Susan Watkins Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(4) pp617-19.

— “Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing: Anatomy of a Female Psyche in the Midst of Gender, Race and Class Barrier” Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed International Journal of English and Literature 4(1) pp11-16.

— “Farewell to a Literary Immortal” Paul Schlueter Doris Lessing Studies 31(1/2) pp26-7.

— “Is A Proper Marriage a Bildungsroman?” Lisa Downward Doris Lessing Studies 31(1/2) pp20-3.

— “Madness and Mothering in Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City (1969)” Kerry Myler Doris Lessing Studies 31(1/2) pp15-20.

— “Towards a Communist Narratology: On the Idea of Communism in Lessing’s The Golden Notebook” Gregory Fenton Doris Lessing Studies 31(1/2) pp9-15.

Marechera, Dambudzo “(Auto)Biographical and Cinematographic Exposition of Dambudzo Marechera on Documentary Film and Video” Nhamo Anthony Mhiripiri Journal of African Cinemas 5(1) pp99-121.

— “The Embrace of Exclusion: The Collective and the Corporeal in Dambudzo Marechera’s ‘House of Hunger’” Alan Ramón Ward English Studies in Africa 56(2) pp73-83.

— “Postcolonial Narcissism, Cryptopolitics, and Hypnocritique: Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger” Brendon Nicholls Postcolonial Text 8(2) pp[22].

— Reading Marechera ed Grant Hamilton x+196pp James Currey (Woodbridge, UK).

Mungoshi, Charles “From ‘Boys’ to ‘Men’? African and Black Masculinities, Triangular Desire, Race, and Subalternity in Charles Mungoshi’s Short Stories” Anias Mutekwa Social Dynamics 39(2) pp353-67.

Mutswairo, Solomon M. “Supra-Masculinities and Supra-Femininities in Solomon Mutsvairo’s Chaminuka: Prophet of Zimbabwe (1983) and Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda (1993)” Terrence Musanga and Anias Mutekwa African Identities 11(1) pp79-92.

Muzorewa, Abel T. “Sithole, Nkomo, Muzorewa, and the Birth of Zimbabwe: A Reconsideration of Autobiography as a Literary Mode of National History” James Hlongwana, R.S. Maposa and Thamsanqa Moyo African Cultures and Literatures pp321-39 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

Ndlovu, Gugu “Angles of Telling and Angles on Reality: Representations of the Gukurahundi Period in Selected Zimbabwean Fiction in Shona, Ndebele, and English” Thamsanqa Moyo, Faith Sibanda and Michael Mazuru African Cultures and Literatures pp35-50 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

Ndlovu, Thabisani “Angles of Telling and Angles on Reality: Representations of the Gukurahundi Period in Selected Zimbabwean Fiction in Shona, Ndebele, and English” Thamsanqa Moyo, Faith Sibanda and Michael Mazuru African Cultures and Literatures pp35-50 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

Nkomo, Joshua “Sithole, Nkomo, Muzorewa, and the Birth of Zimbabwe: A Reconsideration of Autobiography as a Literary Mode of National History” James Hlongwana, R.S. Maposa and Thamsanqa Moyo African Cultures and Literatures pp321-39 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

Samupindi, Charles “Orality and the Emergence of Disrupted Narrative Voices in Charles Samupindi’s Pawns” Maurice Taonezvi Vambe Reading Contemporary African Literature pp213-36 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

Sigauke, Emmanuel “Can You Hear Africa Roar? StoryTime and the Digital Publishing Innovations of Ivor Hartmann and Emmanuel Sigauke” Tsitsi Jaji Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies NS 1(1) pp122-39.

Sithole, Ndabaningi “Sithole, Nkomo, Muzorewa, and the Birth of Zimbabwe: A Reconsideration of Autobiography as a Literary Mode of National History” James Hlongwana, R.S. Maposa and Thamsanqa Moyo African Cultures and Literatures pp321-39 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

Tekere, Edgar “Masculinities and Femininities in Zimbabwean Autobiographies of Political Struggle: The Case of Edgar Tekere and Fay Chung” Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi Journal of Literary Studies 29(3) pp119-39.

Vera, Yvonne “Advocating a Nameable Desire: Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name” Corwin L. Mhlahlo African Cultures and Literatures pp97-104 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

— “Affiliation, Disavowal, and National Commitment in Third Generation African Literature” Madhu Krishnan Ariel 44(1) pp73-97.

— “Feminist Discourses in Chenjerai Hove’s and Yvonne Vera’s Selected Nationalist Narratives” Tendai Mangena International Journal of English and Literature 4(4) pp141-5.

— “The Nation and the Subaltern in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning” Obi Nwakanma Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 50(1) pp36-46.

— “Painful Encounters in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins” Zoe Norridge Perceiving Pain in African Literature pp26-60 [see South Africa: Criticism: General Studies].

— “Supra-Masculinities and Supra-Femininities in Solomon Mutsvairo’s Chaminuka: Prophet of Zimbabwe (1983) and Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda (1993)” Terrence Musanga and Anias Mutekwa African Identities 11(1) pp79-92.

Zimunya, Musaemura “Deformity, Disability and Marginality in Zimbabwean Literary Discourse” Muchativugwa Liberty Hove Journal of Multicultural Discourses 8(2) pp134-44.

Non-fiction

Buckle, Cathy Can You Hear the Drums? Letters from Zimbabwe 2000-2004 278pp self-pub (Marondera).

Gapa, Nyasha ‘Many Faces’ Should I Forgive? 237pp Memoirs Publishing (Cirencester, UK).

Kanhema-Blinston, Catherine My Father before Me: Memoirs of an Activist’s Daughter x+97pp AuthorHouse (Bloomington, Ind).

Mwanaka, Tendai Zimbabwe: The Blame Game iv+216pp Langaa Research and Publishing CIG (Mankon, Cameroon).

Ranger, Terence O. Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67 xii+206pp Weaver Press (Harare).

Retzlaff, Mandy One Hundred and Four Horses: A Memoir of Farm and Family, Africa and Exile 388pp William Collins (London).

Shaw, Angus Mutoko Madness xi+283pp Boundary Books (Harare).

Wylie, Dan Crocodile 224pp Reaktion Books (London).