South Africa and Zimbabwe

Introduction: South Africa

2014 was the 20^th anniversary of the first democratic elections and it would have been expected that this pivotal event would be reflected in the bibliography. In 2004 there were books and articles exploring the “new South Africa”, analysing post-apartheid literature and celebrating a decade of democracy. In a no-longer-quite-so-new South Africa preoccupied with crime, corruption, unemployment, unpredictable power supply, strikes, service delivery protests and political upheavals, the rainbow nation is looking somewhat tarnished and writers and critics are finding less to celebrate. It is telling that the only book explicitly commenting on the twenty years of democracy is a collection of political cartoons by Zapiro, titled Democrazy.

The literature published in 2014 was sombre rather than celebratory. Common themes were violence, crime, conflict, family crises, loss, longing and secrets. Many novels focused on the past, while several of the most established authors such as Damon Galgut, Lauren Beukes, Zakes Mda and Sarah Lotz chose to set their novels in countries other than South Africa.

If the novels were not celebratory, there was still a lot to celebrate in the volume and range of books published and the number of impressive debuts. The diversity of fiction can be seen in a brief survey of the main literary awards. Not only was each award won by a different author, but the shortlists included quite different books.

The Barry Ronge Fiction Prize (formerly the Sunday Times Fiction Prize) was won by Damon Galgut for Arctic Summer, with Tales of the Metric System by Imraan Coovadia, The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga, The Savage Hour by Elaine Proctor and October by Zoë Wicomb shortlisted. The Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction was won by Michiel Heyns for A Sportful Malice, with Face-Off by Chris Karsten and Rachel’s Blue by Zakes Mda shortlisted. Mda won the UJ Prize, with Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut, Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes and Karoo Dusk by Johan Vlok Louw shortlisted. The UJ Debut Prize went to The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself, written by Penny Busetto, with The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga, The Alibi Club by Jaco van Schalkwyk and An Imperfect Blessing by Nadia Davids shortlisted. The Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award goes to books that booksellers selected as the ones they most enjoyed reading, promoting and selling in 2014. The award will be announced later in the year but the shortlist includes 150 Stories by Nataniël, Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange and The Keeper by Marguerite Poland.

In the youth literature section two books dominated the local awards. Alive Again by Andre Eva Bosch won both the MER Prize for Youth Novels and the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature, with Chain Reaction by Adeline Radloff in second place for both awards. The Percy FitzPatrick Prize is awarded every two years and went to Kagiso Lesego Molope for her 2012 novel This Book Betrays My Brother. Two novels attracted the interest of international awards: Rosie Rowell won the Branford Boase Award for debut youth fiction for Leopold Blue and Alex Smith was nominated for a Carnegie Medal for Devilskein & Dearlove.

Africa39 was an international project celebrating thirty-nine African authors under the age of forty, which included Hawa Jande Golakai, Shafinaaz Hassim, Nthikeng Mohlele, Sifiso Mzobe, Zukiswa Wanner and Mary Watson as well as Zimbabwean author Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, now living in South Africa. A story or extract from a new novel by each author appears in Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara. The Etisalat Prize for Literature (given to a debut novel by an African author) was won by Songeziwe Mahlangu for his 2013 novel Penumbra. Nadia Davids was shortlisted for An Imperfect Blessing, along with Nigerian author Chinelo Okparanta. The longlist was dominated by South African authors, including Whoever Fears the Sea by Justin Fox, The Thunder That Roars by Imran Garda and Shadows by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (published in 2013).

Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut was one of the most widely anticipated books of the year and appeared on several “books to look forward to in 2014” lists. The novel more than lived up to the pre-publication hype, attracting rave reviews and nomination for many international awards, including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Folio Prize, and winning Book of the Year at the Tata Literature Live Festival in India. Galgut has frequently explored the complexities of contemporary South African life. Arctic Summer is very different, a biographical novel about British novelist E.M. Forster, focused on his travels to India and Egypt, the writing of his famous novels A Passage to India and Maurice and his struggles with creativity and desire.

Galgut is one of several authors who turn to the past, although most of the historical novels are set in South Africa. The Keeper by Marguerite Poland explores the lives of lighthouse keepers on a desolate island off the coast of Port Elizabeth. An injured keeper shares his story with his nurse, slowly revealing two generations of family secrets and service to the lighthouse. An Imperfect Blessing is playwright Nadia Davids’ first novel. Set in 1986 and 1993, it shows a Muslim family in Cape Town in a time of transition. It is, partly, a coming-of-age story in which the arrival of the protagonist’s activist uncle forces the family to confront past struggles. Tales of the Metric System by Imraan Coovadia is a set of interconnecting stories, each one set on a specific day from 1970 to 2010. Characters reappear across stories, and while each section is focused on a personal story, the novel explores the interconnections between people and offers insight into the struggle against apartheid and its impact on people’s lives. Mandla Langa looks more directly at the anti-apartheid struggle in The Texture of Shadows. Set in 1989, the novel explores the life of ANC soldiers in exile and their return to South Africa shortly before Nelson Mandela’s release. Gordon Torr focuses on the experience of conscripts in the South African Defence Force in Kill Yourself & Count to 10. Based on experiences at a real apartheid era camp, it shows the brutal “rehabilitation” programme for those considered unfit to be in the army.

Earlier conflicts are explored in several novels. A Bullet in the Back by Nigel Fox explores the 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion in which pro-German (or anti-British) factions resisted South Africa’s involvement in the First World War. Half of One Thing by Zirk van den Berg is set during the Second South African War of 1899–1902 and follows a soldier on the side of the British who infiltrates a Boer commando and finds his loyalties divided. An Unreasonable Woman by Ivy May Stuart explores the women’s rights movement in Victorian England and in South Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. A more subtle conflict is explored in Dreaming for Freud by Sheila Kohler. Set in 1900s Vienna, the novel is an imaginative retelling and revision of Sigmund Freud and his interactions with the patient he made famous as “Dora” in case notes recording her treatment. The novel has been highly praised in international reviews, but barely noticed within South Africa. The Hunchback Missionary by Elsa Joubert was first published in Afrikaans in 1989 (as Missionaris) and won the Hofmeyr Prize. Based on historical figures drawn from church archives, the novel is set in the early 1800s and follows the adventures of a Dutch missionary at the Cape of Good Hope. Wilbur Smith returns to ancient Egypt for his adventure novel Desert God, which has the dubious distinction of earning a nomination for the Bad Sex Award. While unlikely to win literary awards, Smith is one of South Africa’s most popular writers, with over thirty best-selling novels.

Last year the rise in erotic fiction was noted and sex continues to be a subject of interest. Helena S. Paige (the pen name of Helen Moffett, Sarah Lotz and Paige Nick) follow up their highly successful “choose-your-own-adventure” erotica novel with two sequels, A Girl Walks into a Blind Date and A Girl Walks into a Wedding. Jassy Mackenzie, better known as a crime writer, has two erotica novels: Switch, which is a sequel to 2013’s Folly, and Breathless, which is a stand-alone novel. The Short. Sharp. Stories competition had erotic fiction as the theme, with the best stories published in Adults Only. Reaction to Brent Meersman’s 80 Gays around the World have been mixed, with reviewers undecided as to whether it is a collection of short stories, or a blend of travel writing and memoir. The book explores homosexual relationships and desire in different countries.

Several novels are set outside South Africa. While some feature South Africans abroad, others have no connection to South Africa beyond the nationality of the author. Zakes Mda sets his novel Rachel’s Blue in a small American town where a young woman must deal with the aftermath of being raped by a friend, falling pregnant, and then having the rapist try to claim paternity rights. Laurence Cramer died in 2013. His second novel How to Look after Bert Reynolds was published posthumously and is a quirky murder mystery set in a small town in the USA. Imperfect Solo by Steven Boykey Sidley is the third of Sidley’s novels set in America and follows a middle-aged man trying to find meaning in his life.

Dying in New York by Ekow Duker and The Alibi Club by Jaco van Schalkwyk feature South Africans living in New York. The Unsaid is the third in a trilogy by Richard De Nooy, although the books can be read separately or in any order. De Nooy now lives in the Netherlands and the book was first published in Dutch. Michiel Heyns sets his latest novel, A Sportful Malice, in Italy. A South African academic is offered, through a Facebook contact, a house in Tuscany to work on his research; there, he encounters a cast of curious characters. Heyns is one of the few authors to write humorously; the book was described as a darkly comic farce.

Italy is also the setting of Penny Busetto’s compelling debut novel The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself. In manuscript form it won the 2013 European Union Literary Award and now attracts high praise and further awards. A South African woman living in Italy has no memories of her past. The novel investigates the nature of memory and identity in sparse, at times surrealist, prose. Love Tastes like Strawberries by Rosamund Haden alternates between present-day Cape Town, Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide, and Greece in the 1990s and explores memories, loss, grief, and longing. Invisible Others by Karina Szczurek is another impressive debut. A South African writer in Paris is haunted by a disastrous affair and struggles to connect with others. A flawed relationship with another damaged person develops, but the arrival in Paris of her “invisible other” brings together past and present. The novel has been praised for its lyrical writing as it explores loss, intimacy and the inability to communicate. Art is a theme in both Haden and Szczurek’s novels as well as in The Road of Excess, the latest of Ingrid Winterbach’s novels to be translated into English, which is part road-trip and part meditation on art and humanity.

Whoever Fears the Sea by Justin Fox features a South African journalist engaged in a sailing ship adventure off the East African coast and provides a different perspective on Somali pirates. Fox is a well-known travel writer, with several works of non-fiction. His first novel has met with mixed reviews while making it onto awards longlists. The Thunder That Roars by Imran Garda is a powerful debut and follows a journalist working in New York who returns to South Africa to look for a family friend who has gone missing. The novel moves between New York, Johannesburg, Bulawayo and Dubai. Shifting Colours, Fiona Sussman’s debut novel, moves between 1960s South Africa and late twentieth-century England. The daughter of a domestic worker is adopted by her mother’s employers when they return to England. The novel follows Miriam’s journey through the years, as she finds her way back to South Africa, in search of her mother and her own identity.

October by Zoë Wicomb explores family history, belonging and secrets. Recently abandoned by her partner in Scotland, a woman returns to South Africa and struggles with memories, forgiveness and the meaning of home. London, Cape Town, Joburg by Zukiswa Wanner explores similar themes. It follows a young man born in exile and his British wife as they meet in London and then with the advent of democracy begin a new life in South Africa. Different chapters are narrated by the two main characters, with the occasional chapter in the voice of their son, whose suicide opens the book. Rusty Bell by Nthikeng Mohlele follows a forty-eight-year-old lawyer as he reflects on his life, and his struggles to make sense of it. Sunderland is a collaborative metafictional novel from Michael Cope and Ken Barris and moves between past and present. An academic is hired to edit the papers and ghost-write the final book of a recently deceased writer. Cope and Barris each assume the voice of a separate character, the narrator and the letters, journals and draft manuscript of the writer.

I See You by Ishtiyaq Shukri is another novel using multiple viewpoints. Flashbacks from the two main characters tell the central story of the abduction of a photojournalist. Radio interviews, emails, journal entries, newspaper articles and personal recollections are included in a narrative that questions the nature of freedom and power in post-1994 South Africa. Esther’s House by Carol Campbell is a story of greed, power and corruption in a small town as desperate people grow tired of waiting for government housing and take matters into their own hands. Do Not Go Gentle by Futhi Ntshingila is set in a squatter camp and addresses poverty, rape and AIDS. The Reactive, Masande Ntshanga’s debut novel, has a young drug dealer, haunted by his role in his brother’s death, called to return to his family and face the secrets and memories he has been running from. The manuscript for White Wahala by Ekow Duker was a finalist in the 2011/2012 European Literary Awards and deals with drugs, money-lending, violence and race relations. Unimportance by Thando Mgqolozana is a part-campus novel, part commentary on student politics and gender violence.

Kholofela Maenetsha has written romance novels as Kholo Matsha, but To the Black Women We All Knew is a more nuanced novel which explores women’s friendship and contemporary township life. Praba Moodley’s previous books have been historical novels about indentured Indians and their descendants, but in The Ties That Bind she moves to the more contemporary setting of the 1990s and the present, showing three friends linked and divided by hidden secrets. This Day by Tiah Beautement is one of several books to explore loss and grief, in a moving depiction of a woman coping with the death of her child and a husband lost in deep depression. Birdseye by Máire Fisher is a powerful debut novel showing the impact on a family of the disappearance of twin boys. Their younger sister desperately tries to keep their memory intact and to record events in the family for their eventual return, revealing dark family secrets (another recurring theme throughout the fiction). Shadow Self by Paula Marais deals with post-natal depression and infanticide. When the Bough Breaks by Casey Dolan explores family secrets. Cry Baby by Lauren Liebenberg explores the cracks in a perfect family in suburban Johannesburg. Sister Moon by Kirsten Miller has the increasing dementia of her father forcing the main character to confront long-buried family secrets surrounding the death of her sister. The Savage Hour by Elaine Proctor explores themes of family, loyalty, dying, loss, forgiveness, mercy and retribution. Black Dog Summer, the debut novel by Miranda Sherry, features a murdered woman who is not able to leave the world of the living. She follows her daughter, helplessly watching her family cope with grief, a traumatised teenager and the impact of violent loss, and secrets now uncovered.

Crime is a feature of much of the fiction, often depicting the aftermath of violence or death on individuals or families. Prison and gang life is explored in White Paper White Ink by Jonathan Morgan and Sipho Madini, which blurs the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, while The Violent Gestures of Life by Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho depicts a troubled adolescent in a reformatory. By Any Means by Kurt Ellis is a coming-of-age novel set in the ganglands of Durban. Karoo Dusk by Johan Vlok Louw has a young man choosing sides in the battle between good and evil in a small Karoo town. Garden of Dreams by Melissa Siebert is another coming-of-age novel, and the second novel with an Indian setting, and deals with the issue of child-trafficking.

The genre of crime fiction continues to grow, with several strong additions. Priscilla Holmes and Joanne Macgregor usually write teenage fiction but now turn to crime, joining Charlotte Otter and Penny Lorimer with strong debuts. Karin Brynard’s award-winning Afrikaans novel is now available in English. Deon Meyer routinely appears on awards lists and Cobra; his latest novel to be translated into English, is no exception, winning awards for the original Afrikaans and being shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award for translated crime novels. The novel features recurring character Detective Benny Griessel. Face-Off by Chris Karsten is another award-winning Afrikaans novel in translation, the third in a series featuring a serial killer. One Shot by Amanda Coetzee continues the series featuring Harry O’Connor, but is the first to have a South African setting. Devil’s Harvest by Andrew Brown is a stand-alone political thriller touching on the international arms trade, refugees, and atrocities in Southern Sudan. Dark Prayer by Natasha Mostert is a paranormal thriller, the sixth from Mostert, which explores the nature of memory and identity. Louis Greenberg’s Dark Windows has been described as a literary thriller and a dark satire and is set in an alternate South Africa, ruled by a New Age movement, where crime has supposedly been cured. It explores notions of guilt, redemption, the collective unconscious and the nature of belief and is an intriguing blend of thriller and speculative fiction.

Interestingly, this is a common feature of speculative fiction, which continues to grow in South Africa. The trend can most clearly be seen in Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes, which was shortlisted for awards for crime fiction, horror and literary fiction. Broken Monsters has garnered rave reviews and a TV deal. Set in Detroit, USA it is on one level a thriller involving a macabre serial killer, with a supernatural element, but also a commentary on art, the media, creativity, celebrity and more. Sarah Lotz is another author gaining international acclaim with her thriller The Three, which has attracted comparisons with and praise from Stephen King. After four planes crash on one day, leaving three children the only survivors, conspiracy theories and religious fervour surround “The Three”. Lotz uses the oral history format to tell a fragmented but engrossing tale as the story is pierced together from interviews, reports and first person narratives.

Charlie Human follows his debut Apocalypse Now Now with the sequel Kill Baxter. A darkly comedic urban fantasy blending established fantasy tropes with traditional African mythology and folklore, it follows the adventures of sixteen-year-old Baxter Zevcenko who must once again save the world from apocalypse, while learning how to control his magic abilities. Tokoloshe Song by Andrew Salomon also uses African folklore in an original and quirky way and is a total reworking of the tokoloshe myth. Salomon has written for teenagers but this is his first adult novel.

Speculative fiction is a strong feature of the youth literature, as are series and sequels. Fantasy with a local setting appears in The Army of the Lost by Lily Herne, the third in the Mall Rats series featuring teenagers living in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Devilskein & Dearlove by Alex Smith shows a young girl dealing with trauma who makes friends with a demon that lives upstairs. Banished by Liz de Jager is the start of the Blackhart series involving a teenager whose family guards the borders between the human and the supernatural worlds. It is followed by Vowed. Cat Hellisen follows her fantasy debut When the Sea Is Rising Red with a sequel House of Sand and Secrets. Nerine Dorman has published several novels, but now turns to youth literature with The Guardian’s Wyrd, a fantasy coming-of-age novel. The Mark by Edyth Bulbring is a powerful example of dystopian fiction. A teenage girl living in a post-apocalyptic world tries to resist the oppressive regime where all people’s lives are controlled and dictated by the mark on their spines.

A number of impressive debuts dealing with difficult issues appeared. Alive Again by Andre Eva Bosch features a teenage girl who struggles with her sexist father, who sees no need to educate a girl, and must also deal with the trauma of sexual assault. In Search of Happiness by Sonwabiso Ngcowa addresses issues of xenophobia and homophobia (interestingly Ngcowa is the only male writer for young adults listed this year). Leopold Blue by Rosie Rowell is a coming-of-age novel set in 1990s rural South Africa. Chain Reaction, the second novel by Adeline Radloff, explores bullying and the choices people make as well as the effect not only on their own lives but on the lives of others. Each chapter is told from the point of view of a different character. Divided into two parts, either of which can be read first, it has two front covers. Within them are two versions of the story, each dependent on the action or inaction of the character starting the chain reaction.

In addition to her novel, Nerine Dorman has also published a collection of short stories, Lost Children, containing dark tales of the fantastic. Christopher Nicholson has published a novel before, but No Sacred Cows is his first collection of stories and is a substantial work. 150 Stories by Nataniël contains a selection of stories from his previous six collections, with stories in both English and Afrikaans (the title makes use of the fact that the word for stories is the same in both languages). S.J. Naude’s award-winning debut collection has been translated from Afrikaans into English as The Alphabet of Birds and has been highly praised. Karen Jennings was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for her collection Away from the Dead.

Herman Charles Bosman died in 1951 but his stories are still popular, appearing regularly in anthologies and collections. Juvenilia Press bring out an intriguing collection of his early works in “Saved from the Waste-paper Basket” & Other Stories. Edited by Mark Kretschmann, the collection contains stories written by Bosman between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, appearing in school and university magazines, as well as the Sunday Times newspaper.

J.M. Coetzee occasionally writes short fiction, but few have been collected. Three Stories brings together “He and His Man”, written as Coetzee’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the stories “A House in Spain” and “Nietverloren”. Two Screenplays consists of Coetzee’s own versions of In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians; original and as yet unproduced cinematic adaptations of his novels. Editor Hermann Wittenberg located the scripts in archives in Texas and Grahamstown and has produced a scholarly publication which gives interesting insight into Coetzee’s work and highlights an aspect of his writing that has not received much attention.

Drama continues to be under-represented in the bibliography but what did appear in print was significant. Yael Farber has made a name for reworking classic texts for a South African context. Plays One brings together three of her plays: “Molora” (based on The Oresteia by Aeschylus), “RAM: The Abduction of Sita into Darkness” (based on the Indian epic, The Ramayana) and “Mies Julie” (based on Miss Julie by August Strindberg). Athol Fugard’s new play The Shadow of the Hummingbird was also published. Junkets was once again the only local publisher to make plays available, giving a voice to several new playwrights, with Hinterland by Duncan Buwalda, Skierlik by Phillip Dikotla and Crepuscule by Khayelihle Gumede appearing. Gumede was honoured with a Naledi Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre. Robin Malan, the founder of Junkets, was awarded the English Academy’s Gold Medal for 2014 for “services to English over a long career in education and theatre”. In addition to publishing plays, Malan is himself a writer and frequent compiler of anthologies.

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers was the 2014 Commonwealth Poet of the Year, the first South African to receive this honour. There are few South African national awards for poetry. The Ingrid Jonker Prize alternates between English and Afrikaans poetry, selecting from work published in the past two years. Karin Schimke won the 2014 award for her 2012 collection Bare & Breaking. The Elisabeth Eybers Prize for Afrikaans and English Poetry went to Antjie Krog for her Afrikaans collection Mede-Wete, translated as Synapse. The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award (for an individual poem) went to Thabo Jijana, with Rochelle Jacobs and Jim Pascual Agustin as runners up. The best entries are published in The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology. Two substantial anthologies appeared: Heart of Africa! Poems of Love, Loss and Longing selected by Patricia Schonstein and In the Heat of Shadows edited by Denis Hirson.

A new publisher, Left Field Poetry, appeared with the aim of bringing together the selected works of established poets. With print runs frequently small and collections going out of print quickly, this is an important means of ensuring that the work of poets remains accessible. The first two books are Holding Back by Gus Ferguson and Heaven by Douglas Reid Skinner, an impressive start to the series. Small independent presses are the lifeblood of poetry. Charmza Literary Club and theInkSword brought out the only debut collections: Crime: My Story by Tshidiso Hala,“His Thoughts” by Mogale Sedibe and Black Diamond Wife by Gontse wa Chaane, although both publishers could benefit from better editing. Damian Garside has been widely published in journals and anthologies but his self-published collection Zero Gravity is his first book. The poems included are of mixed quality, and, at 267 pages, the book is rather long for a collection. A more rigorous selection process would have made for a stronger work.

Modjaji Books is to be commended for once again producing a substantial body of strong work, with new collections from Margaret Clough, Christine Coates and Joan Metelerkamp. Collections from Stephen Gray, Kerry Hammerton, Chris Mann, James Matthews, Kobus Moolman, Pitika Ntuli, Harry Owen, Ari Sitas and Brian Walter also impressed. It was interesting to see the linkages between art and poetry in Pitika Ntuli, Marié Heese and Quentin Hogge’s collections. Haiku for Africa by Marié Heese and From around the World in Eighty Days by Ari Sitas are accompanied by CDs of the poems being read.

Poetry fared better than usual in the criticism. Mike Alfred collected interviews with Johannesburg poets in Twelve + One: Some Jo’burg Poets, giving insight into the life and work of poets such as Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Gail Dendy, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya and Makhosazana Xaba. A history of New Coin poetry journal, which celebrated 50 years of publishing, was compiled by Alan Finlay, a previous editor, titled Pull down to Earth: 50 Years of New Coin 1965–2015. The current editor invited several poets to reflect on the state of poetry and contributions from Haidee Kruger, Mxolisi Nyezwa, Kelwyn Sole and others are included in the anniversary issue. In the Individual Studies section below, in addition to the interviews noted, articles are listed on poets such as Dennis Brutus, Roy Campbell, Sydney Clouts, Ingrid de Kok, Mariss Everitt, Wopko Jensma, Don Maclennan, Chris Mann, Joan Metelerkamp, Zolani Mkiva, Kobus Moolman, Mongane Wally Serote and Brian Walter. Several articles appeared on Antjie Krog, but the focus was on her life-writing and non-fiction rather than poetry.

The popularity of crime and speculative fiction is reflected in the criticism, with a special issue of Scrutiny2 on crime fiction and writers of the fantastic such as Elana Bregin, Lauren Beukes, Lily Herne and S.L. Grey discussed. Established authors such as J.M. Coetzee, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Zakes Mda and Olive Schreiner dominate the criticism. However, it is pleasing to see newer authors such as Diane Awerbuck, Lisa Fugard, Fred Khumalo, Kagiso Lesego Molope and Henrietta Rose-Innes being discussed.

Several literary figures feature in the Non-Fiction. Marie Philip is herself an author; her husband, David Philip, was a founder of David Philip Publishers. Books That Matter is part memoir, part literary history as she tells of this important independent publisher that came into being in a time of censorship and bannings. Afrikaans novelist Elsa Joubert’s memoir is now available in an English translation as A Lion on the Landing.

Two important collections of literary letters appear: Letters to My Native Self, a collection of Lewis Nkosi’s letters from 2001–2009 and The World’s Great Question, a collection of Olive Schreiner’s letters from 1889–1920. Several collections of Schreiner letters exist. The editors, Liz Stanley and Andrea Salter, focus on letters relating to South African politics and race relations. The Somme Chronicles by Chris Schoeman looks at South Africa’s involvement in the First World War, drawing on letters and diaries of South African soldiers. Sol Plaatje was the first black South African to publish a novel in English. He is also well known for his diary of his experiences during the Second South African War and his Native Life in South Africa which addresses the impact of the Natives Land Act of 1913. Native Eyes by Steve Lunderstedt focuses more on Plaatje as a political writer, including biographical information and quoting extensively from Plaatje’s writing, as well as newspapers from the time.

Ben Trovato has produced ten collections of satirical letters sent to politicians, businesses, celebrities and others, and the responses when received. Much of the amusement is created when people take the letters seriously. In Incognito Mark Verbaan reveals himself to be Ben Trovato and writes about his life as a journalist and the development of his alter ego. Novelist Paige Nick has a regular newspaper column, often humorous. Pens Behaving Badly is a collection of her columns, along with some of the readers’ responses. More humour is to be found in collections of essays and columns from Darrell Bristow-Bovey, Richard Poplak and Ndumiso Ngcobo. Jay Heale is a children’s author and an expert on children’s literature, frequently travelling to conferences and book-related gatherings. Reading, Eating & Drinking My Way around the World is a collection of his travel stories, focusing, as the title suggests, on books, food and drink.

Maria Phalime has written novels for teenagers. Postmortem comes from her day job as a doctor and is a harrowing memoir of conditions in the medical field. Phalime was the recipient of the inaugural City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award, which sponsored the research and writing of the book. Several journalists have written memoirs, the most noteworthy being Girl on the Edge by Ruth Carneson, Dispatcher by Mark Gevisser, Nothing Left to Steal by Mzilikazi wa Afrika and A Path through Hard Grass by Ruth Weiss. Twenty-two-year-old Malaika wa Azania presents the voice of a new generation in Memoirs of a Born Free (“Born Free” is the term used for the generation which has grown up in post-apartheid South Africa). Nelson Mandela, the first president of the new South Africa, continues to capture the imagination of the nation and several books are dedicated to him. Attracting most attention and controversy is Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange, Mandela’s personal assistant. The death of Mandela in December 2013 plunged the country (and the world) into mourning.

Chris van Wyk (1957–2014) wrote poetry, children’s books and adult literacy readers. To current readers he was best known for his memoir Shirley, Goodness and Mercy and for is adaptation for children of Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. He was one of several significant authors to die in 2014. Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923 and started writing stories as a young girl, with her first publication at the age of thirteen and her first collection of stories in 1949. Her last novel appeared in 2012. By the time of her death at ninety-one she had produced a substantial body of novels and short story collections and gained international acclaim. Dan Jacobson (1929–2014) and Mbulelo Mzamane (1948–2014) also wrote novels and short stories, while Peter E. Clarke (1929–2014) and Mafika Pascal Gwala (1946–2014) were poets. Playwright Jonathan Nkala was only thirty-four when he died of cancer. A Zimbabwean author but living and published in South Africa, Nkala is best known for his play Crossing, which explores the experience of Zimbabwean migrancy to South Africa.

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Skinner, Douglas Reid Heaven: New & Selected Poems 96pp Left Field Poetry (Cape Town).

Wa Chaane, Gontse Black Diamond Wife 40pp theInkSword (Kimberley).

Walter, Brian Otherwise and Other Poems vii+70pp Echoing Green Press (Fish Hoek).

Drama

Buwalda, Duncan Hinterland 91pp Junkets (Cape Town).

Coetzee, J.M. Two Screenplays 209pp UCT Press (Cape Town).

Dikotla, Phillip M. Skierlik 49pp Junkets (Cape Town).

Farber, Yael Plays One 112pp Oberon Books (London).

Fugard, Athol The Shadow of the Hummingbird 38pp Theatre Communications Group (New York).

Gumede, Khayelihle Crepuscule 104pp Junkets (Cape Town).

Fiction

Anon One Man 304pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Beautement, Tiah This Day 158pp Modjaji Books (Cape Town).

Beukes, Lauren Broken Monsters 441pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Bosch, Andre Eva Alive Again 136pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Bosman, Herman Charles “Saved from the Waste-Paper Basket” & Other Stories: Herman Charles Bosman’s Juvenilia ed Mark Kretschmann xxxviii+90pp Juvenilia Press (Sydney, Aus).

Bright, Cayleigh Close to Home vi+213pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Brown, Andrew Devil’s Harvest 266pp Zebra Press (Cape Town).

Bulbring, Edyth The Mark 229pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Busetto, Penny The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself xii+155pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Campbell, Carol Esther’s House 223pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Coetzee, Amanda One Shot 298pp Pan Macmillan (Johannesburg).

Coetzee, J.M. Three Stories 71pp Text Publishing (Melbourne, Aus).

Coovadia, Imraan Tales of the Metric System 389pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Cope, Michael and Ken Barris Sunderland 199pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Cramer, Laurence How to Look after Bert Reynolds 165pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Davids, Nadia An Imperfect Blessing 410pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

De Burgh, Dave-Brendon Betrayal’s Shadow 210pp Fox & Raven (Cape Town).

De Jager, Liz Banished 388pp Tor (London) [for young adults].

—– Vowed 400pp Tor (London) [for young adults].

De Nooy, Richard The Unsaid 193pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Delport, Melissa The Legacy 366pp Tracey McDonald (Johannesburg).

—– The Legion 388pp Tracey McDonald (Johannesburg).

Dolan, Casey B. When the Bough Breaks 384pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Dorman, Nerine The Guardian’s Wyrd 167pp Ba en Ast Books (Cape Town) [for young adults].

—– Lost Children: A Collection of Tales 111pp Ba en Ast Books (Cape Town).

Duker, Ekow Dying in New York 248pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

—– White Wahala 307pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

Ellis, Kurt By Any Means 208pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town).

Emby, Donald Soweto Burning: A Family’s Journey to the 1976 Soweto Riots 360pp Honeybush Books (Clarens).

Fisher, Máire Birdseye 255pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Fox, Justin Whoever Fears the Sea 262pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Fox, Nigel A Bullet in the Back: The 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion 228pp Porcupine Press (Johannesburg).

Galgut, Damon Arctic Summer 376pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Garda, Imran The Thunder That Roars 206pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Gevisser, Neil A Tyranny of Trust xi+255pp Book Guild Publishing (Hove, UK).

Greenberg, Louis Dark Windows 237pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Haden, Rosamund Love Tastes like Strawberries 308pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Hellisen, Cat House of Sand and Secrets 317pp Folded Wherry Publications (Richmond, USA) [for young adults].

Herrmann, Lee Journal of a South African Zombie Apocalypse 180pp Tall Tales (Dauphin, Penn).

Herne, Lily The Army of the Lost 329pp Much-in-Little (London) [for young adults].

Heyns, Michiel A Sportful Malice: A Comedy of Revenge 256pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

Holmes, Priscilla Now I See You 206pp Modjaji Books (Cape Town).

Human, Charlie Kill Baxter 295pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Jennings, Karen Away from the Dead 130pp Holland Park Press (Cape Town) [short stories].

Kohler, Sheila Dreaming for Freud 232pp Penguin (New York).

Langa, Mandla The Texture of Shadows 371pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

Lazarus, Greg, pseud Paradise 237pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Lee, Patrick J. On the Wild Coast 256pp Saltwater Publishing (Dublin).

Liebenberg, Lauren Cry Baby vii+292pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Lorimer, Penny Finders Weepers 299pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Lotz, Sarah The Three 472pp Hodder & Stoughton (London).

Louw, Johan Vlok Karoo Dusk 240pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Macgregor, Joanne Dark Whispers 288pp Protea Book House (Pretoria).

Mackenzie, Jassy Breathless 208pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

—– Switch 255pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Maenetsha, Kholofelo To the Black Women We All Knew 176pp Modjaji Books (Cape Town).

Marais, Paula Shadow Self 347pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town).

Mda, Zakes Rachel’s Blue 195pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Meersman, Brent 80 Gays around the World 270pp Missing Ink (Cape Town) [short stories].

Mgqolozana, Thando Unimportance 146pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Miller, Kirsten Sister Moon 236pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Mohlele, Nthikeng Rusty Bell 162pp Univ KwaZulu-Natal Press (Pietermaritzburg).

Moodley, Praba The Ties That Bind 204pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Morgan, Jonathan and Sipho Madini White Paper White Ink ix+177pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Mostert, Natasha Dark Prayer 277pp Portable Magic (Indianapolis, Ind).

Mukwevho, Tshifhiwa The Violent Gestures of Life 165pp Univ KwaZulu-Natal Press (Pietermaritzburg).

Nataniël, pseud 150 Stories 517pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town).

Ngcowa, Sonwabiso In Search of Happiness 152pp Cover2Cover Books (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Nicholson, Christopher No Sacred Cows 248pp Hands-On Books (Cape Town) [short stories].

Ntshanga, Masande The Reactive 198pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Ntshingila, Futhi Do Not Go Gentle 139pp Modjaji Books (Cape Town).

Nussey, Wilf Life, Love & Death in the Lowveld 239pp 30º South (Pinetown) [short stories].

O’Shea, Linda Owen’s Passage 115pp theInkSword (Kimberley).

Otter, Charlotte Balthasar’s Gift: A Maggie Cloete Mystery 274pp Modjaji Books (Cape Town).

Paige, Helena S., pseud A Girl Walks into a Blind Date: Your Fantasy, Your Rules 341pp Delta (Cape Town).

—– A Girl Walks into a Wedding: Your Fantasy, Your Rules 345pp Delta (Cape Town).

Pakiry, Dineshree N. Death’s Awakening 160pp theInkSword (Kimberley).

Poland, Marguerite The Keeper 183pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Proctor, Elaine The Savage Hour 373pp Quercus (London).

Radloff, Adeline Chain Reaction 59+59pp Tafelberg (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Radmann, Christopher The Crack 330pp Oneworld Publications (London).

Rowell, Rosie Leopold Blue 271pp Hot Key Books (London) [for young adults].

Salomon, Andrew Tokoloshe Song 336pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Schwarz, Liesel Sky Pirates: The Chronicles of Light and Shadow 400pp Del Rey (UK).

Sherry, Miranda Black Dog Summer 312pp Head of Zeus (London).

Shukri, Ishtiyaq I See You viii+206pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Sidley, Steven Boykey Imperfect Solo: A Dark Comedy of Random Misfortune 287pp Picador Africa (Johannesburg).

Siebert, Melissa Garden of Dreams 247pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Smith, Alex Devilskein & Dearlove 271pp Umuzi (Cape Town) [for young adults].

Smith, Wilbur Desert God 424pp Harper Collins (London).

Stuart, Barbara A Pocketful of Thieves 172pp Leda (Pinetown).

Stuart, Ivy An Unreasonable Woman 311pp Leda (Pinetown).

Sussman, Fiona Shifting Colours 303pp Allison & Busby (London).

Szczurek, Karina Invisible Others 220pp Protea Book House (Pretoria).

Taljaard, Michael The Transkei Run and the Times of High Strangeness 140pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Torr, Gordon Kill Yourself & Count to 10 267pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Van den Berg, Zirk Half of One Thing 208pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Van Schalkwyk, Jaco The Alibi Club 190pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Wanner, Zukiswa London, Cape Town, Joburg 338pp Kwela (Cape Town).

Wicomb, Zoë October 272pp Umuzi (Cape Town).

Translations

Brynard, Karin Weeping Waters trans from Afrikaans by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon 356pp Penguin (Johannesburg) [novel].

Joubert, Elsa The Hunchback Missionary trans from Afrikaans by Michael King 296pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg) [novel].

—– A Lion on the Landing: Memories of a South African Youth trans from Afrikaans by Irene M. Wainwright 401pp Hemel & See (Hermanus) [autobiography].

Karsten, Chris Face-Off trans from Afrikaans by Elsa Silke 414pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [novel].

Krog, Antjie Synapse trans from Afrikaans by Karen Press 117pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [poetry].

Meyer, Deon Cobra trans from Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers 344pp Hodder & Stoughton (London) [novel].

Naudé, S.J. The Alphabet of Birds trans from Afrikaans 240pp And Other Stories; Umuzi (Cape Town) [short stories].

Winterbach, Ingrid The Road of Excess trans from Afrikaans by Leon de Kock 320pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [novel].

Anthologies

Adults Only: Short. Sharp. Stories ed Joanne Hichens 287pp Mercury (Cape Town)

Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara ed Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 361pp Bloomsbury (New York) [multi-genre].

Heart of Africa! Poems of Love, Loss and Longing select Patricia Schonstein 518pp African Sun Press (Cape Town).

In the Heat of Shadows: South African Poetry 1996–2013 ed Denis Hirson 279pp Deep South (Grahamstown).

It Takes Two ed Ros Haden 240pp Cover2Cover Books (Cape Town) [short stories; for young adults].

McGregor Poetry Festival 2013 Anthology: Imagination and Passion ed Patricia Schonstein 176pp African Sun Press (Cape Town).

The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology: Volume IV select Ingrid de Kok xiv+152pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

This Questioning Terrain: Ecca Poets comp Brian Walter 59pp Ecca (Hogsback).

Criticism

General Studies

“Achieved Professionalism: The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English and The Cambridge History of South African Literature” Louise Bethlehem English in Africa 41(1) pp155–79 [review].

Africa’s Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema ed Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy xiv+217pp Legenda (London).

“Afrika Cultural Centre: Phoenix under Apartheid and Burnt Ember Under Democracy?” Bhekizizwe Peterson Syncretic Arenas pp195–222 [see this section].

“Apart and Yet a Part: The Dilemmas of the Dissident White Writer in Apartheid South Africa” Samya Achiri Global Journal of Human-Social Science 14(8) pp6–13.

“Books and Publishing in the South African Trade Market: Changing Writers, Changing Themes” Jana Möller Critical Arts 28(5) pp857–70.

Creating Books for the Young in the New South Africa: Essays on Authors and Illustrators of Children’s and Young Adult Literature ed Jay Heale and others ix+310pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC).

“The Crime Novel in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Preliminary Investigation” Jonathan Amid and Leon de Kock Scrutiny2 19(1) pp52–68.

“Critical Responses: The Evolution of the Theatre Critic in South Africa” Temple Hauptfleisch Syncretic Arenas pp319–32 [see this section].

“‘The Devil Slapped on the Genitals’: Religion and Spirituality in Queer South Africans’ Lives” Cheryl Stobie Journal of Literary Studies 30(1) pp1–19.

Drawing the Line: Towards an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice Carrol Clarkson xiii+204pp Fordham Univ Press (New York).

“Embodying the Feral: Indigenous Traditions and the Nonhuman in Some Recent South African Novels” Wendy Woodward pp220–32 in Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies ed Garry Marvin and Susan McHugh xviii+313pp Routledge (London).

“A Heritage of Violence: Paradoxes in Freedom and Memory in Recent South African Play-Texts” Anton Krueger Syncretic Arenas pp237–49 [see this section].

The Historical Figures of the New African Movement; Volume 1 Ntongela Masilela xiv+369pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

“‘Homeward Bound’: Periodicity, the Cape Colony’s Literary Culture and the Cape Monthly Magazine” Sarah Da Silva English Studies in Africa 57(1) pp9–20.

“Locating Spoken Word Poetry in Today’s South African Poetry Scene” Raphael d’Abdon New Coin 50(2) pp86–90.

“Mandela in/and Poetry” Maria Paola Guarducci Other Modernities (12) pp59–77.

“Migrant Forms: African Parade’s New Literary Geographies” Stephanie Bosch Santana Research in African Literatures 45(3) pp167–87.

“‘The Most Delicate Instrument We Possess for Finding out Who and Where We Are’: Space, Identity and Language in South African Poetry” Haidee Kruger New Coin 50(2) pp163–8.

“The New African 1962–1969: South Africa in Particular and Africa in General” Randolph Vigne and James Currey English in Africa 41(1) pp55–73.

“New Myths, New Scripts: Revisionist Mythopoesis in Contemporary South African Women’s Poetry” Deirdre Byrne Gender Questions 2(1) pp52–66.

“Poetry: A Journey Just Begun” Kelwyn Sole New Coin 50(2) pp56–59.

“Poets Must Be Everywhere” Mxolisi Nyezwa New Coin 50(2) pp22–25.

“Post-Apartheid Transnationalism in Black South African Literature: A Reality or a Fallacy?” Lesibana Rafapa Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 51(1) pp57–73.

Prophetic Remembrance: Black Subjectivity in African American and South African Trauma Narratives Erica Still 256pp Univ Virginia Press (Charlottesville, Va).

Pull down to Earth: 50 Years of New Coin 1965–2015 Alan Finlay 57pp Institute for the Study of English in Africa (Grahamstown).

“Recent Theorisations of Trauma Fiction, Postcolonialism, and the South African Novel” Thando Njovane English in Africa 41(1) pp199–207 [review of Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel ed Ewald Mengel and Michela Borzaga].

“Reimagining South African Literature?” Duncan Brown Journal of Southern African Studies 40(5) pp1109–23 [review of The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English since 1945 ed Gareth Cornwell, Dirk Klopper and Craig MacKenzie, SA Lit ed Michael Chapman and Margaret Lenta and The Cambridge History of South African Literature ed David Attwell and Derek Attridge].

“Remembering the Home You Never Knew: Rural Traces in Contemporary Urban Township Performances” Gay Morris South African Theatre Journal 27(3) pp236–46.

“Some Aspects of Contemporary South African Poetry” Denis Hirson New Coin 50(2) pp144–7.

“South African Crime Fiction: An Illuminating Window on the Rainbow Nation” Bill Phillips pp60–70 in Reviewing Imperial Conflicts ed Ana Cristina Mendes and Cristina Baptista xiii+227pp Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Newcastle upon Tyne).

“South African Drama and Theatre Heritage; Part I: A Map of Where We Find Ourselves” Marisa Keuris and Lida Krüger South African Theatre Journal 27(1) pp19–31.

“South African Drama and Theatre Heritage; Part II: What Does the Future Hold?” Marisa Keuris and Lida Krüger South African Theatre Journal 27(2) pp86–94.

South African Essays on “Universal” Shakespeare ed Chris Thurman xxi+208pp Ashgate (Farnham, UK).

“Spectral Citizenry: Reflections of the ‘Post-Transitional’ in Contemporary South African Literature” Nedine Moonsamy English Studies in Africa 57(2) pp69–78.

Syncretic Arenas: Essays on Postcolonial African Drama and Theatre for Esiaba Irobi ed Isidore Diala xxvii+369pp Rodopi (Amsterdam).

Theatre Directing in South Africa: Skills and Inspirations Roel Twijnstra and Emma Durden xv+233pp Twist Theatre Development Projects (Durban).

“To Be a Coconut? Thoughts Provoked by Natasha Distiller’s Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On Post-Apartheid South African Culture” Michael Chapman Critical Arts 28(2) pp165–77.

“Tracing the Seam: Narrative Journalism and Imaginings in South African Literature” Nick Mulgrew Literary Journalism Studies 6(1) pp9–30.

Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation ed Marita Nadal and Mónica Calvo ix+260pp Routledge (New York).

“Turmoil and Unrest in South African Young Adult Literature” J. Inggs Detskie Chteniia 6(2) pp412–25.

Twelve + One: Some Jo’burg Poets: Their Artistic Lives and Poetry interviewed by Mike Alfred 184pp Botsotso (Johannesburg).

World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa Corinne Sandwith ix+309pp Univ KwaZulu-Natal Press (Pietermaritzburg).

Studies On Individual Writers

Alfred, Mike “Mike Alfred” Allan Kolski Horwitz Twelve + One pp168–78 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Anthony, Lawrence “Feral Whispering: Conservation, Community and the Reach of the Literary” Dan Wylie English in Africa 41(3) pp119–40.

Awerbuck, Diane “‘Every Place Is Three Places’: Bursting Seams in Recent Fiction by Diane Awerbuck and Henrietta Rose-Innes” Ken Barris Current Writing 26(1) pp59–69.

Barris, Ken “An Interview with Ken Barris” Mike Marais English in Africa 41(1) pp143–52.

—– “Shame, Divine Cannibalism, and the Spectacle of Subaltern Suffering in Ken Barris’s What Kind of Child” Mike Marais English in Africa 41(3) pp79–95.

Beckett, Denis “Autobiography, History, Memory and Nostalgia in Denis Beckett’s Radical Middle and Hugh Lewin’s Stones against the Mirror” Isaac Ndlovu Journal of Southern African Studies 40(6) pp1235–50.

Behr, Mark “The Naïve Youthful Narrator in the Literature of South African Apartheid” Daniel W. Lehman Sankofa 13 pp67–72.

Beukes, Lauren “Contemporary South African Horror: On Meat, Neo-Liberalism and the Postcolonial Politics of a Global Form” Rebecca Duncan Horror Studies 5(1) pp85–106.

—– “Ghost Girls and SponsorBabes: Dystopian Performances of White Femininity in Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland” Jennifer M. Schmidt Scrutiny2 19(1) pp109–18.

—– “Guilt, Guns, Girls and Ghettos: Adjacent Futures in Selected Post-Apartheid Fantasies” Molly Brown Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 51(2) pp28–39.

—– “Lauren Beukes’s Post-Apartheid Dystopia: Inhabiting Moxyland” Louise Bethlehem Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(5) pp522–34.

—– “(Un)Lawful Subjects of Company: Reading Cape Town from Tavern of the Seas to Corporate City” Meg Samuelson Interventions 16(6) pp795–817.

Blacklaws, Troy “The Afrikaner Grotesque: Mediating between Colonial Self and Colonised Other in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels” Ken Barris English in Africa 41(1) pp91–107.

Bregin, Elana “Guilt, Guns, Girls and Ghettos: Adjacent Futures in Selected Post-Apartheid Fantasies” Molly Brown Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 51(2) pp28–39.

Brink, André “André Brink, Mevrou Sadie and Me: Reflections on and beyond Contrary: Critical Responses to the Novels of André Brink” Michael Chapman English in Africa 41(1) pp181–98 [review].

—– “Apartheid Spies: The Character, the Reader, and the Censor in André Brink’s A Dry White Season” Giuliana Iannaccaro Other Modernities (11) pp69–84.

—– “Field, Material, Technique: On Renewing Postcolonial Literary Criticism” Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49(3) pp279–97.

Brutus, Dennis “Modern African Verse and the Politics of Authentication” Gabriel S. Bamgbose Comparative Literature and Culture 16(1) pp[10].

Butler, Guy “Butler’s Lear” Laurence Wright South African Essays on “Universal” Shakespeare pp167–82 [see Criticism: General].

Campbell, Roy “Roy Campbell and The Dry Salvages” Jim McCue Notes and Queries 61(1) pp121–3.

Cartwright, Justin “‘Bucks without Hair’ and ‘Bullet Points’: Social and Meta-Commentary in Justin Cartwright’s In Every Face I Meet” Lucy Graham and Andrea Buchanan Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49(1) pp47–62.

—– “The Pastoral, the Primal and the Post-Apartheid Sublime in Justin Cartwright’s White Lightning” Dirk Klopper English in Africa 41(3) pp97–117.

Christiansë, Yvette “Yvette Christiansë’s Oceanic Genealogies and the Colonial Archive: Castaways and Generations from Eastern Africa to the South Atlantic” Meg Samuelson Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 1(1/2) pp27–38.

Clouts, Sydney “Mountainous Freedom: The Awkward Romance of Two Capetonian Poets” Dan Wylie English in Africa 41(1) pp75–90.

Coetzee, J.M. “Age of Iron as a Cultural Text: The Question of Apartheid and the Body” Shadi S. Neimneh and Marwan M. Obeidat English Language and Literature Studies 4(3) pp1–8.

—– “‘Animal Tracks in the Margin’: Tracing the Absent Referent in Marian Engel’s Bear and J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals” Paul Barrett Ariel 45(3) pp123–49.

—– Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works ed Laura Wright, Jane Poyner and Elleke Boehmer 227pp Modern Language Association of America (New York).

—– “Coetzee, Blanchot, and the Work of Writing: The Impersonality of Childhood” Mike Piero MediaTropes 4(2) pp79–97.

—– “Coetzee’s Postmodern Bodies: Disgrace between Human and Animal Bodies” Shadi S. Neimneh Theory and Practice in Language Studies 4(8) pp1569–75.

—– “Decoloniality of a Special Type: Solidarity and Its Potential Meanings in South African Literature, during and after the Cold War” Christopher J. Lee Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(4) pp466–77.

—– “Displacement as a Narrative in J.M. Coetzee’s Post-Apartheid Novels” Chantal Logan Études Littéraires Africaines (38) pp43–53.

—– “Doubling the Point on Dusklands: J.M. Coetzee’s Dogged Quest for a Post-Cartesian, Embodied and Inter-Subjective Consciousness” Damazio Mfune Scrutiny2 19(2) pp71–82.

—– “Embracing Disgrace: Writing from the Dark Side” Paul Williams New Writing 11(2) pp250–60.

—– “The Fathers’ Dark Triumph: Terror and the End of Revolution in J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg” Ashleigh Harris Journal for Cultural Research 18(2) pp132–45.

—– “Feste Ansichten in His Own Person: J.M. Coetzee Speaks” Gillian Dooley MediaTropes 4(2) pp31–45.

—– “Field, Material, Technique: On Renewing Postcolonial Literary Criticism” Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49(3) pp279–97.

—– “Godard in the Karoo: J.M. Coetzee’s Screenplay Adaptation of In the Heart of the Country” Hermann Wittenberg English in Africa 41(2) pp13–33.

—– “Grand Narrative Rethought: A Postmodernist Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Foe” Sk Nasim Ali Labyrinth 5(2) pp99–104.

—– “The Grounds of Cynical Self-Doubt: J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, Youth and Summertime” Sam Cardoen Journal of Literary Studies 30(1) pp94–112.

—– “The Incurious Seeker: Waiting, and the Search for the Stranger in the Fiction of Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee” Mike Marais MediaTropes 4(2) pp6–30.

—– “J.M. Coetzee, R.G. Howarth, South to South” Nicholas Jose New Scholar 3(2) pp85–98.

—– “J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus: A Postmodern Allegory” Ileana Dimitriu Current Writing 26(1) pp70–81.

—– “J.M. Coetzee’s Work in Stylostatistics” Peter Johnston Digital Humanities Quarterly 8(3) pp[16].

—– “‘Like a Dog’: Rituals of Animal Degradation in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Abu Ghraib Prison” Greta Olson Journal of Narrative Theory 44(1) pp116–56.

—– Literary Spaces in the Selected Works of J.M. Coetzee Katarzyna Karwowska v+133pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main).

—– “Living beyond Apartheid: The Territorial Ethics of Reconciliation” Megan Paustian Safundi 15(1) pp101–22.

—– “The Magistrate, the Camp, and the Novel: J.M. Coetzee and the Subject of Human Rights” Sarah Winter Novel 47(2) pp261–83.

—– “Memory, Cosmopolitanism and Nation: Christa Wolf’s Stadt der Engel (2010) and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999)” Stuart Taberner Comparative Critical Studies 11(1) pp49–67.

—– “Mirror Neurons and Literature: Empathy and the Sympathetic Imagination in the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee” Hilmar Heister MediaTropes 4(2) pp98–113.

—– “No Higher Life: Bio-Aesthetics in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Carrie Rohman Modern Fiction Studies 60(3) pp562–78.

—– “On Not Yet Being Christian: J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man and the Ethics of Being (Un)Interesting” Craig Smith Postcolonial Text 9(1) pp[18].

—– “Post-Colonialism Literature: the Concept of ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians: An Analytical Approach” Afaf Al-Saidi Journal of Language Teaching and Research 5(1) pp95–105.

—– “Rape and the Foundation of Nations in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” M. van Wyk Smith English in Africa 41(1) pp13–34.

—– “Restoring Madness to History in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country” William Collins MediaTropes 4(2) pp46–67.

—– “Schopenhauer and Secular Salvation in the Work of J.M. Coetzee” Richard Alan Northover English in Africa 41(1) pp35–54.

—– “States of Absence: Stein, Coetzee, and the Politics of Despair” Mara De Gennaro Textual Practice 28(5) pp833–59.

—– “Titular Space in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime: A Maquette for a Portrait, or a Self-Portrait, of the Artist Finding His Feet” Brian Macaskill MediaTropes 4(2) pp114–43.

—– “The Trauma of Anthropocentrism and the Reconnection of Self and World in J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands” Susan Onega Trauma in Contemporary Literature pp207–22 [see Criticism: General].

—– “True Life, Real Lives: Revisiting the Boundaries between Ethnography and Fiction” Didier Fassin American Ethnologist 41(1) pp40–55.

—– “The Visceral Allegory of Waiting for the Barbarians: A Postmodern Rereading of J.M. Coetzee’s Apartheid Novels” Shadi Neimneh Callaloo 37(3) pp692–709.

—– “The Yeatsian Intertexts of Coetzee’s Disgrace” Richard Russell Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies NS 2(2) pp3–18.

—– “Writing Revolution: The Manuscript Revisions of J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians” David Attwell Life Writing 11(2) pp201–16.

Collen, Lindsey “‘Could It Be Everywhere?’ Lindsey Collen and Literary Mutiny in the Indian Ocean” Sharae Deckard Interventions 16(6) pp837–53.

Dangor, Achmat “The Afrikaner Grotesque: Mediating between Colonial Self and Colonised Other in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels” Ken Barris English in Africa 41(1) pp91–107.

—– “‘Human Beings Are Far More Layered than You See’: On Complexity, Identities and Otherness in the Creative Writing of Achmat Dangor: An Interview” Aghogho Akpome Africa Insight 44(1) pp165–74.

De Kok, Ingrid “Binding Grammar to Horror: Considering Trauma in the Poetry of Ingrid de Kok, Alicia Partnoy and Mongane Wally Serote” Tlhalo Raditlhalo Scrutiny2 19(1) pp93–108.

De Villiers, Phillippa Yaa “Phillippa Yaa de Villiers” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp34–40 [interview; see Criticism: General]

Dendy, Gail “Gail Dendy” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp58–65 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Dlamini, Jacob “Fracture and Selfhood in Jacob Dlamini’s Native Nostalgia” Megan Jones African Studies 73(1) pp107–23.

Drummond, June “Sisters in Crime: Reading June Drummond and Margie Orford” Antoinette Pretorius Scrutiny2 19(1) pp5–17.

Duiker, K. Sello “Thirteen Cents by K. Sello Duiker: Exposing Street Child Reality in South Africa” Mamadou Ngom Journal of Pan African Studies 6(9) pp44–57.

Everitt, Mariss “‘The Garden of Love’s Decay’: The Suburban Garden as Eco-Poetic Space in South Africa” Dan Wylie Scrutiny2 19(2) pp6–17.

Fox, Jane “Jane Fox” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp6–14 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Fugard, Athol “A Critical Analysis of Athol Fugard’s Social Vision in Four Selected Plays” Mwihia Njoki and Collins Ogogo Journal of Educational and Social Research 4(1) pp63–84.

—– “Gang Violence and Postcolonial Survival in Athol Fugard’s Tsotsi” Rodwell Makombe English 63(240) pp5–27.

—– “‘How Much Does Anyone Need to Know about Eugène Marais?’ The Guest and Die Wonderwerker” Lesley Marx South African Theatre Journal 27(3) pp247–64.

—– “Hysterical Nostalgia in the Postcolony: From Coming Home to District 9” Dennis Walder Consumption Markets & Culture 17(2) pp143–57.

—– “Profane Illumination: An Interview with Athol Fugard” Neil Rusch English in Africa 41(2) pp115–44.

—– “Remembering Trauma: Fugard’s The Train Driver” Dennis Walder South African Theatre Journal 27(1) pp32–41.

—– “Tragedy and Theatricality in The Island” Christian Dahl Modern Drama 57(1) pp1–18.

Fugard, Lisa “Redefining Shared Narrative in Lisa Fugard’s Skinner’s Drift and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light” Lisa Propst Studies in the Novel 46(2) pp197–214.

Galgut, Damon “Necrophiliac Narration and the Business of Friends: Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor” Mike Marais Safundi 15(4) pp455–70.

Gordimer, Nadine “‘Crossing and Dwelling’: Home as a State of Mind in Aboulela’s Minaret and Gordimer’s The Pickup” Ileana Dimitriu Scrutiny2 19(1) pp119–34.

—– “Decoloniality of a Special Type: Solidarity and Its Potential Meanings in South African Literature, during and after the Cold War” Christopher J. Lee Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(4) pp466–77.

—– “‘Hieroglyph to Be Decoded’: Exploring Routes of Representation and Telling in Nadine Gordimer’s Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories” Laura Giovanelli Études Littéraires Africaines (38) pp93–103.

—– “Nadine Gordimer 1923–2014” David Medalie English in Africa 41(2) pp9–11.

—– “Playing at Home: An Ecocritical Reading of Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup” Dana C. Mount Ariel 45(3) pp101–22.

—– “‘Simple as the Black Letters on This White Page’: Nadine Gordimer’s Grey Politics in No Time Like the Present” Dominic Davies Études Littéraires Africaines (38) pp83–92.

Gordon, Lyndall “Engendering a Little More Truth: Gender and Genre in Shared Lives” Judith Lütge Coullie Life Writing 11(2) pp217–30.

Grey, S.L. “Contemporary South African Horror: On Meat, Neo-Liberalism and the Postcolonial Politics of a Global Form” Rebecca Duncan Horror Studies 5(1) pp85–106.

Head, Bessie “Against Epistemic Totalitarianism: The Insurrectional Politics of Bessie Head” Shiera S. El-Malik Journal of Contemporary African Studies 32(4) pp493–505.

—– “Annotating Bessie Head’s A Question of Power” Mary S. Lederer Current Writing 26(2) pp162–8.

—– “Creative Ferment: A Question of Power in the 21^st Century: Some Thoughts for New Readers” Gillian Stead Eilersen Current Writing 26(2) pp157–61.

—– “Head on Head, Metacritically Speaking: Bessie Head’s Epistolary Critique of A Question of Power” Linda Beard Current Writing 26(2) pp123–34.

—– “‘I Want to Feel That I Saw and Thought All Those Things for a Purpose’: Bessie Head’s Letters to Paddy Kitchen about Writing A Question of Power” M.J. Daymond Current Writing 26(2) pp135–47.

—– “Living beyond Apartheid: The Territorial Ethics of Reconciliation” Megan Paustian Safundi 15(1) pp101–22.

—– “Madness or Mysticism? The Unconscious Ascetics of Power and Hunger” Grant Lilford Current Writing 26(2) pp169–80.

—– “The Possibility of Justice: Bessie Head and Unity Dow” Mary S. Lederer pp135–60 in Novels of Botswana in English, 1930–2006 ix+185pp African Heritage Press (New York).

—– “A Question of Madness: Re-Reading Bessie Head’s A Question of Power” Craig MacKenzie Current Writing 26(2) pp148–56.

—– “Questions of Adaptation: Bessie Head’s A Question of Power and Ingrid Sinclair’s Riches” Nyasha Mboti Current Writing 26(2) pp181–92.

—– “Some Publishing Personalia Concerning Bessie Head” Stephen Gray Current Writing 26(2) pp193–202.

—– “Topographies of Power and Pain in A Question of Power” Annie Gagiano Current Writing 26(2) pp113–22.

Herne, Lily “Guilt, Guns, Girls and Ghettos: Adjacent Futures in Selected Post-Apartheid Fantasies” Molly Brown Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 51(2) pp28–39.

Heyns, Michiel “The Naïve Youthful Narrator in the Literature of South African Apartheid” Daniel W. Lehman Sankofa 13 pp67–72.

—– “Urban Ecology and the Property Rights of Baboons” Mariss Everitt Scrutiny2 19(2) pp40–8.

Horwitz, Allan Kolski “Allan Kolski Horwitz” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp136–42 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Jensma, Wopko “Losing His Head: The Poetry of Wopko Jensma and His Reputation” Stephen Gray Current Writing 26(1) pp29–40.

Joubert, Elsa “Complex Collaborations: Elsa Joubert’s The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena and Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story” Jenny Siméus Ariel 45(1/2) pp221–45.

—– “‘A Strange Antipathy’: Elsa Joubert and ‘Poppie Nongena’” Lucy Graham Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 68(2) pp174–86.

Ka Ngwenya, Siphiwe “Siphiwe ka Ngwenya” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp126–30 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Kani, John “Tragedy and Theatricality in The Island” Christian Dahl Modern Drama 57(1) pp1–18.

Kenmuir, Dale “Touching Trunks: Elephants, Ecology and Compassion in Three Southern African Teen Novels” Dan Wylie Journal of Literary Studies 30(4) pp25–44 [other novels listed in Zimbabwe: Individual Studies].

Khumalo, Fred “Transcultural Memory and Intertextuality in Fred Khumalo’s Seven Steps to Heaven” Kgomotso Masemola Unisa School of Arts pp371–80 [see Zimbabwe: Criticism: General].

Krog, Antjie Antjie Krog: An Ethics of Body and Otherness ed Judith Lütge Coullie and Andries Visagie xviii+341pp Univ KwaZulu-Natal Press (Pietermaritzburg)

—– “As I Was Saying in Berlin…” Paul Patton Life Writing 11(2) pp177–88 [interview].

—– “Cross-Cultural Conversations: Antjie Krog’s Life Writing in Begging to Be Black” Sue Kossew Life Writing 11(2) pp189–99.

—– “Reconstructing Apartheid, Redefining Racism: The South African Truth Commission and Its Representations” Shakti Jaising Interventions 16(1) pp117–34.

Kunene, Mazisi “An Intellectual Portrait of Mazisi Kunene” Ntongela Masilela The Historical Figures of the New African Movement pp95–191 [see Criticism: General].

La Guma, Alex “Decoloniality of a Special Type: Solidarity and Its Potential Meanings in South African Literature, during and after the Cold War” Christopher J. Lee Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(4) pp466–77.

—– “John Wayne in Sophiatown: The Wild West Motif in Apartheid Prose” Troy Blacklaws English in Africa 41(1) pp127–42.

—– “Oases in the Desert: Optimistic Vision in Alex La Guma’s A Walk in the Night and a Threefold Cord” O. Victor Ogbeide Research on Humanities and Social Sciences 4(7) pp115–21.

Leipoldt, C. Louis “Youth and War Experience in Louis Leipoldt’s Stormwrack and Deneys Reitz’s Commando” Paul L. Murray Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 68(2) pp198–207.

Lewin, Hugh “Autobiography, History, Memory and Nostalgia in Denis Beckett’s Radical Middle and Hugh Lewin’s Stones against the Mirror” Isaac Ndlovu Journal of Southern African Studies 40(6) pp1235–50.

Maart, Rozena “Black Feminism in the 1980s” Itumeleng Mafatshe and Zanele Hlope Agenda 99 28(1) pp110–18 [interview].

Maclennan, Don “‘The Garden of Love’s Decay’: The Suburban Garden as Eco-Poetic Space in South Africa” Dan Wylie Scrutiny2 19(2) pp6–17.

Magona, Sindiwe “Antidote for Global Feminist Gaps as Encoded in Sindiwe Magona’s Black South African Autobiographies” Lesibana Rafapa pp141–54 in Feminism: Perspectives, Stereotypes/Misperceptions and Social Implications ed Pearce Stroud n.p. Nova Science (New York).

—– “Treacherous Masculinities and Assertive Femininities: An Interrogation of Sindiwe Magona’s Beauty’s Gift” Muchativugwa Hove Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 5(8) pp533–8.

Mann, Chris “Two Eastern Cape Voices” Geoff Haresnape New Contrast 167 42(3) pp90–6 [review of Rudiments of Grace].

Marais, Eugène “‘How Much Does Anyone Need to Know about Eugène Marais?’ The Guest and Die Wonderwerker” Lesley Marx South African Theatre Journal 27(3) pp247–64.

Masango, Lebohang “Lebohang Nova Masango” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp80–8 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Matthee, Dalene “A Foucauldian Reading of Power Dynamics in Two Afrikaans Historical Novels: Dalene Matthee’s Fiela’s Child and Micki Pistorius’s Sorg” Belinda du Plooy Current Writing 26(1) pp51–8.

Mda, Zakes “The Afrikaner Grotesque: Mediating between Colonial Self and Colonised Other in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels” Ken Barris English in Africa 41(1) pp91–107.

—– “Beyond the Eco-Flaneur’s Footsteps: Perambulatory Narration in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying” Laura A. White pp99–112 in Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism ed Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran xvi+198pp Lexington (Lanham, Md).

—– “Imagining a Dialectical African Modernity: Achebe’s Ontological Hopes, Sembene’s Machines, Mda’s Epistemological Redness” Melissa Myambo Journal of Contemporary African Studies 32(4) pp457–73.

Medalie, David “Older Age in David Medalie’s The Mistress’s Dog” Antoinette Pretorius English Academy Review 31(2) pp81–93.

Meintjies, Frank “Frank Meintjies” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp16–24 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Metelerkamp, Joan “Now the World Takes These Breaths” Kelwyn Sole New Coin 50(2) pp191–201 [review].

Meyer, Deon “Crimes against Nature: Ecocritical Discourse in South African Crime Fiction” Sam Naidu Scrutiny2 19(2) pp59–70.

—– “The Production and Reception of Deon Meyer’s Works: An Evaluation of the Factors Contributing to Bestseller Status” Elizabeth le Roux and Samantha Buitendach Scrutiny2 19(1) pp18–34.

—– “The Protean New South Africa in Deon Meyer’s Heart of the Hunter” Colette Guldimann Scrutiny2 19(1) pp80–92.

—– “South African Crime Fiction: Sleuthing the State Post-1994” Samantha Naidu and Elizabeth le Roux African Identities 12(3/4) pp283–94.

Mkangelwa, Luvuyo “Modern African Verse and the Politics of Authentication” Gabriel S. Bamgbose Comparative Literature and Culture 16(1) pp[10].

Mkiva, Zolani “The Commercialization of Celebratory Poetry: A Critical Examination of Zolani Mkiva’s Post-Apartheid Praise Poetry (izibongo)” Raphael d’Abdon African Identities 12(3/4) pp314–25.

Modisane, Bloke “John Wayne in Sophiatown: The Wild West Motif in Apartheid Prose” Troy Blacklaws English in Africa 41(1) pp127–42.

Molope, Kagiso Lesego “‘These Children Were the Product of a Changing Country’: The Feminist Bildungsroman and the Issue of Community in the Novels of Kagiso Lesego Molope” Jenna Barlow Sankofa 13 pp50–9.

Moolman, Kobus “Left Over: Poems” Kelwyn Sole New Coin 50(1) pp101–7 [review].

Moss, Rose “Multiple Identities and Language in the Translation of Rose Moss’s Short Stories” Encarnación Pinazo Women’s Studies International Forum 42 pp111–28.

Motana, Nape ’a “‘You Are Suffering from Literary Kwashiorkor’: Transculturation at the Confluence of African Literature, Vegetarianism and Indigenous Rural Practice in Nape ’a Motana’s Son-in-Law of the Boere” Dave Nel Journal of Literary Studies 30(1) pp53–69.

Mpe, Phaswane “‘The Danger Inside’: Witchcraft and Community in South African Literature” Annel Pieterse English in Africa 41(3) pp27–55.

—– “Inside Out: The New Literary Geographies of the Post-Apartheid City in Mpe’s and Vladislavic’s Johannesburg Writing” Russell West-Pavlov Journal of Southern African Studies 40(1) pp7–19.

—– “Representations of the National and Transnational in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” Lesibana Rafapa and Kgomotso Masemola Alternation 21(2) pp83–98.

—– “Representations of Xenophobic Otherisation in Jinga’s One Foreigner’s Ordeal and Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” Theresia Mdlongwa and Thamsanqa Moyo Elite Research Journal of Education and Review 2(4) pp88–94.

—– “Romance and Freedom: Nelson and Winnie Mandela’s Politics of Gender in Three Post-Apartheid Novels” Lorenzo Mari Other Modernities (12) pp95–112.

—– “Towards an ‘Afropolitan Deixis’: Hospitality and ‘You’ and ‘We’ Narration in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” Rebecca Fasselt English Studies in Africa 57(2) pp98–114.

Mphahlele, Es’kia “‘The Danger Inside’: Witchcraft and Community in South African Literature” Annel Pieterse English in Africa 41(3) pp27–55.

—– “Ezekiel Mphahlele: The Last Intellectual of the New African Movement” Ntongela Masilela The Historical Figures of the New African Movement pp277–333 [see Criticism: General].

Mtwa, Percy “‘It’s Just Changed Color’: Clowning with Parodies of Religion, Race and Nation in Woza Albert! and Woza Andries?” Anton Krueger pp19–40 in Theatre and National Identity: Re-Imagining Conceptions of Nation ed Nadine Holdsworth xiii+227pp Routledge (New York).

Muila, Ike Mboneni “Ike Mboneni Muila” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp46–51 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Murcott, Lionel “Lionel Murcott” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp98–106 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Murray, Sally-Anne “Writing Like Life? ‘Life-Like’ Relation, Femaleness and Generic Instability in Small Moving Parts” Sally-Anne Murray Agenda 99 28(1) pp72–84.

Ndebele, Njabulo S. “A Critique of Njabulo Ndebele’s Criticism of Protest Fiction” Theophilus T. Mukhuba Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 5(20) pp2359–67.

—– “Ndebele’s Relationship with the Liberal-Humanists and an Evaluation of the Story-Telling Tradition” Theophilus T. Mukhuba Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 5(23) pp2425–9.

—– “Romance and Freedom: Nelson and Winnie Mandela’s Politics of Gender in Three Post-Apartheid Novels” Lorenzo Mari Other Modernities (12) pp95–112.

—– “‘Storytellers, Not Just Case Makers’? A Study of Storytelling in the Essays of Njabulo S. Ndebele” Sara Thackwray Current Writing 26(1) pp41–50.

Ngcobo, Lauretta “And She Didn’t Die: An Interview with Lauretta Ngcobo in Johannesburg, 18 August 2010” Polo Moji Agenda 100 28(2) pp92–97.

Ngema, Mbongeni “‘It’s Just Changed Color’: Clowning with Parodies of Religion, Race and Nation in Woza Albert! and Woza Andries?” Anton Krueger pp19–40 in Theatre and National Identity: Re-Imagining Conceptions of Nation ed Nadine Holdsworth xiii+227pp Routledge (New York).

—– “Sarafina! in Black and White: Revival, Colour-Consciousness Casting and New Social Cohesion Paradigms” Gibson Cima South African Theatre Journal 27(3) pp207–21.

Nkala, Jonathan “‘Opening up to the Rest of Africa’?: Continental Connections and Literary (Dis)Continuities in Simão Kikamba’s Going Home and Jonathan Nkala’s The Crossing” Rebecca Fasselt Journal of Literary Studies 30(1) pp70–93.

Nkosi, Lewis “Romance and Freedom: Nelson and Winnie Mandela’s Politics of Gender in Three Post-Apartheid Novels” Lorenzo Mari Other Modernities (12) pp95–112.

Ntshona, Winston “Tragedy and Theatricality in The Island” Christian Dahl Modern Drama 57(1) pp1–18.

Orford, Margie “Crime Takes Place: Spatial Situation(s) in Margie Orford’s Fiction” Caitlin Martin and Sally-Ann Murray Scrutiny2 19(1) pp35–51.

—– “Sisters in Crime: Reading June Drummond and Margie Orford” Antoinette Pretorius Scrutiny2 19(1) pp5–17.

—– “Writing the Violated Body: Representations of Violence against Women in Margie Orford’s Crime Thriller Novels” Sam Naidu Scrutiny2 19(1) pp69–79.

Patel, Ahmed “Ahmed Patel” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp72–8 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Plaatje, Sol T. “The Historical Context and Legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913” William Beinart and Peter Delius Journal of Southern African Studies 40(4) pp667–88.

—– “‘It Is as bad To Be a Black Man’s Animal as It Is To Be a Black Man’: The Politics of Species in Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa” Sandra Swart Journal of Southern African Studies 40(4) pp689–705.

—– “Traversing Social Landscapes: Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi and the Question of Community” Tina Steiner English in Africa 41(3) pp7–26.

Reitz, Deneys “Youth and War Experience in Louis Leipoldt’s Stormwrack and Deneys Reitz’s Commando” Paul L. Murray Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 68(2) pp198–207.

Rose-Innes, Henrietta “‘Every Place Is Three Places’: Bursting Seams in Recent Fiction by Diane Awerbuck and Henrietta Rose-Innes” Ken Barris Current Writing 26(1) pp59–69.

—– “Imprinting the Self: Mountain Presencing, Place and Identity in The Rock Alphabet by Henrietta Rose-Innes” Pat Louw Scrutiny2 19(2) pp30–9.

Schreiner, Olive “Dream Time and Anti-Imperialism in the Writings of Olive Schreiner” Jade Ong Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(6) pp704–16.

—– “Olive Schreiner: Diamonds, Prostitution and From Man to Man” Anna Snaith pp36–66 in Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945 ix+278pp Cambridge Univ Press (New York).

—– “Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man and ‘the Copy Within’” Dorothy Driver pp123–50 in Changing the Victorian Subject ed Maggie Tonkin and others x+281pp Univ Adelaide Press (Adelaide, Aus).

—– “Reading Olive Schreiner Reading W.E.B. du Bois” Simon Lewis Research in African Literatures 45(2) pp150–67.

—– “Valuable Failure as a Unifying Principle in The Story of an African Farm” Christine Haskill English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 57(1) pp81–98.

Semple, Robert “‘[T]he Origin of Charles’: Robert Semple’s Walks and Sketches at the Cape of Good Hope (1803)” Matthew Shum Safundi 15(4) pp427–53.

Serote, Mongane Wally “Binding Grammar to Horror: Considering Trauma in the Poetry of Ingrid de Kok, Alicia Partnoy and Mongane Wally Serote” Tlhalo Raditlhalo Scrutiny2 19(1) pp93–108.

—– “On the Margins of the Black Atlantic: Angola, the Eastern Bloc, and the Cold War” Monica Popescu Research in African Literatures 45(3) pp91–109.

Shukri, Ishtiyaq “Reconstructing the Past, Deconstructing the Other: Redefining Cultural Identity through History and Memory in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret” Cleo Theron English Studies in Africa 57(2) pp45–56.

—– “(Un)Lawful Subjects of Company: Reading Cape Town from Tavern of the Seas to Corporate City” Meg Samuelson Interventions 16(6) pp795–817.

Simon, Barney “‘It’s Just Changed Color’: Clowning with Parodies of Religion, Race and Nation in Woza Albert! and Woza Andries?” Anton Krueger pp19–40 in Theatre and National Identity: Re-Imagining Conceptions of Nation ed Nadine Holdsworth xiii+227pp Routledge (New York).

Sithole, Nkosinathi “The Representation of Place and Religion in Nkosinathi Sithole’s Hunger Eats a Man” Michael Wessels Scrutiny2 19(2) pp49–58.

Sleigh, Dan “(Un)Lawful Subjects of Company: Reading Cape Town from Tavern of the Seas to Corporate City” Meg Samuelson Interventions 16(6) pp795–817.

Small, Adam “Autobiography as Counter-Memory in The Orange Earth of Adam Small” Hein Willemse Syncretic Arenas pp159–82 [see Criticism: General].

Tlali, Miriam “A Historical Synopsis of Some of Miriam Tlali’s Literary Works and Reflections on Black Writing during Apartheid” Theophilus T. Mukhuba Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 5(20) pp2432-9.

Tlhabi, Redi “Haunting the Social: Conversing with Ghosts in Redi Tlhabi’s Endings & Beginnings” Megan Jones Journal of African Cultural Studies 26(3) pp262–75.

Van Niekerk, Marlene “Contemporary Afrikaans Fiction in the World: The Englishing of Marlene van Niekerk” Derek Attridge Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49(3) pp395–409.

—– “Dionysian Daydreaming: (Re)Creating Community in Marlene van Niekerk’s Memorandum” Jean Rossmann English in Africa 41(3) pp57–78.

—– “‘Reterritorialising’ the Land: Agaat and Cartography” Gail Fincham Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 51(2) pp130–43.

—– “‘Why Were We Crucified into Car Mechanics?’ Masculine Identity in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat” Antoinette Pretorius Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 51(1) pp29–43.

Venter, Eben “Notes on Joyce and South Africa: Coincidence and Concordance” Tony Voss Current Writing 26(1) pp19–28.

Vladislavic, Ivan “The Imaginator: Perspective and Possibility in Ivan Vladislavic’s ‘The Tuba’” Rilette Swanepoel English in Africa 41(1) pp109–26.

—– “Inside Out: The New Literary Geographies of the Post-Apartheid City in Mpe’s and Vladislavic’s Johannesburg Writing” Russell West-Pavlov Journal of Southern African Studies 40(1) pp7–19.

—– “Johannesburg: Resisting the Imagination” Lucy Gasser Scrutiny2 19(1) pp135–41.

—– “Portrait of the Writer as a Flâneur in Johannesburg? A Study of Ivan Vladislavic’s Work” Mathilde Rogez Commonwealth Essays and Studies 37(1) pp57–66.

—– “Unstable Orders: Dislocation as Metaphor and Allegory of Post-Apartheid Transition in Ivan Vladislavic’s The Restless Supermarket” Kudzayi Ngara Études Littéraires Africaines (38) pp55–67.

Vundla, Mandi Poefficent “Mandi Poefficent Vundla” Allan Kolski Horwitz Twelve + One pp152–60 [interview; see Criticism: General].

Walter, Brian “Two Eastern Cape Voices” Geoff Haresnape New Contrast 167 42(3) pp90–6 [review of Otherwise and Other Poems].

Watson, Stephen “Mountainous Freedom: The Awkward Romance of Two Capetonian Poets” Dan Wylie English in Africa 41(1) pp75–90.

Westby-Nunn, Terry “Contemporary South African Horror: On Meat, Neo-Liberalism and the Postcolonial Politics of a Global Form” Rebecca Duncan Horror Studies 5(1) pp85–106.

Wicomb, Zoë “Complex Collaborations: Elsa Joubert’s The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena and Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story” Jenny Siméus Ariel 45(1/2) pp221–45.

—– “Metafictions of Development: The Enigma of Arrival, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and the Place of the World in World Literature” Kara Donnelly Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49(1) pp63–80.

—– “Plight vs Right: Trauma and the Process of Recovering and Moving beyond the Past in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light” Dolores Herrero Trauma in Contemporary Literature pp100–15 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Redefining Shared Narrative in Lisa Fugard’s Skinner’s Drift and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light” Lisa Propst Studies in the Novel 46(2) pp197–214.

Winterbach, Ingrid “Crimes against Nature: Ecocritical Discourse in South African Crime Fiction” Sam Naidu Scrutiny2 19(2) pp59–70.

—– “Notes on Joyce and South Africa: Coincidence and Concordance” Tony Voss Current Writing 26(1) pp19–28.

Xaba, Makhosazana “Makhosazana Xaba” Mike Alfred Twelve + One pp112–19 [interview; see Criticism: General].

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Bristow-Bovey, Darrel One Midlife Crisis and a Speedo 169pp Zebra Press (Cape Town).

Carneson, Ruth Girl on the Edge: A Memoir 216pp Face2Face Books (Cape Town).

Gevisser, Mark Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg x+354pp Granta (London).

Gordon, Lyndall Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter 328pp Virago (London) .

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Leon, Tony Opposite Mandela: Encounters with South Africa’s Icon 243pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

Lunderstedt, Steve “Native Eyes”: Sol Plaatje versus the Natives’ Land Act of 1913 vi+126pp Sol Plaatje Educational Trust (Kimberley).

Mbalo, Sixolile Dear Bullet, or, A Letter to My Shooter 89pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg).

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Schuster, Anne and Erica Coetzee To the Islands: A Creative Writing Workbook 176pp Tiber Tree (Cape Town).

Siedle, Barbara Breathe the Dust: Journey of a Wildlife Artist ix+166pp Spurwing Press (Durban).

Verbaan, Mark Incognito: The Memoirs of Ben Trovato viii+255pp Pan Macmillan (Johannesburg).

Wa Afrika, Mzilikazi Nothing Left to Steal: Jailed for Telling the Truth x+267pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Wa Azania, Malaika Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation 172pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Weiss, Ruth A Path through Hard Grass: A Journalist’s Memories of Exile and Apartheid 276pp Basler Afrika (Basel).

Zapiro, pseud Democrazy: SA’s 20 Year Trip 248pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

Journals

Special Issues

Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 26(2) ed Catherine Addison and others: special issue Celebrating the 40^th Anniversary of the Publication of Bessie Head’s A Question of Power (1973) ed Margaret Daymond pp109–210.

English in Africa 41(3) ed Gareth Cornwell: special issue South African Literary History Project: Community and Commonality ed Dirk Klopper 140pp.

Life Writing 11(2) ed Maureen Perkins: special issue Re-Framing South African Life Narratives ed Dorothy Driver and Sue Kossew pp155–272.

MediaTropes 4(2) ed Michael Edmunds, Twyla Gibson and Stuart J. Murray: special issue J.M. Coetzee: Contrapuntal Mediations ed Brian Macaskill xiii+143pp.

Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 19(1) ed Deirdre C. Byrne: special issue South African Crime Fiction 162pp.

Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 19(2) ed Deirdre C. Byrne: special themed section Literature and Ecology 92pp.

New Journals

Aerodrome Journal (Cape Town); first issue Dec 2014 [interviews, fiction, poetry and reviews; first pub online at www.aerodrome.co.za].

uHlanga: Poetry/Photography/KZN (La Lucia); annual; first issue Oct 2014 [poetry].

Introduction: Zimbabwe

2014 was a year of mixed fortunes for Zimbabwean literature. Although very little literature was published (or could be identified from outside of the country), Zimbabwean authors gained attention in academic criticism and international awards.

NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 novel We Need New Names continued to attract attention, having been longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and having won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the UK Society of Authors Betty Trusk Award and the Neale Hurston / Richard Wright Legacy Award for fiction. Cordite Books is a new publishing company for African genre fiction based in Lagos, Nigeria. They launched with a competition for crime manuscripts with the best receiving a publishing deal with distribution across the continent. The prize was won by Blessing Musariri for her novel Useful Knowledge for a World Class Detective – The Black Mamba Journals. Musariri has published children’s books and individual short stories and poems but this is her first novel. It features a young woman detective and has attracted comparisons to The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.

Africa39 was an international project celebrating thirty-nine African authors under the age of forty, which included Novuyo Rosa Tshuma. A story or extract from a new novel by each author appears in Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara. Tshuma was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature for her 2013 novel Shadows. Tendai Huchu was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story “The Intervention”. This story, along with the other four shortlisted stories, is included in the anthology The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories. The remaining stories in the collection come from the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop which was held in Zimbabwe and represent authors including Lawrence Hoba, Violet Masilo, Isabella Matambanandzo, Barbara Mhangami-Ruwende, Philani A. Nyoni and Bryony Rheam.

Within Zimbabwe NAMA Literary Awards for Outstanding First Creative Published Work went to Cynthia Marangwanda for Shards and Debbie Vakira for A Struggle Alike, debut novels which explore the conflict between tradition and modern life. Shards is the story of a troubled young woman from a privileged background who is tormented by insanity and depression, while A Struggle Alike shows the conflict between a woman and her mother-in-law. Tendai Machingaidze’s debut novel Acacia is set in America and focuses on an African-American student.

Lauren St John and Na’ima B. Robert set their youth novels in England, where both authors now live. She Wore Red Trainers by Roberts shows Muslim teenagers as they negotiate traditional expectations around love and marriage. St John has primarily written for younger children but Fire Storm is aimed at a slightly older audience, continuing her series of novels about horse-riding teenagers. She has also published her first novel for adults, The Obituary Writer, where the survivor of a train crash is haunted by nightmares which start to appear prescient. Irene Sabatini’s second novel Peace and Conflict blurs the boundaries between youth and adult fiction, with reviewers undecided about its genre. The child narrator explores the impact of conflict and injustice on an individual and a family, touching on a mystery surrounding a Second World War meda, and the disappearance of his aunt in Zimbabwe.

Christopher Mlalazi won a NAMA award for his children’s book, a collection of folktales (not listed in the bibliography), but has also published a novel for adults, They Are Coming. Mlalazi’s fourth novel captures the everyday life of residents in Bulawayo’s townships, showing the impact on a family when their daughter joins a youth militia in the run up to the elections of 2004. When Freedom Came by Benjamin Sibanda follows the experiences of a young man at the time of independence, showing his growing disillusionment with freedom. Tendai Huchu’s second novel The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician has attracted considerable attention and praise. Focused on three Zimbabwean men now living in Edinburgh who struggle with belonging, identity and loss, it explores the diasporic experience in a muli-layered and crafted novel.

Two Zimbabweans studying in South Africa collaborated on a collection of short stories, The Clash of the Titans. Interestingly, Christopher Mabeza and Munyaradzi Mawere but co-wrote each story in the collection.

Well-known poet John Eppel collaborates with younger writers Philani Amadeus Nyoni and Togara Muzanenhamo in two collections, Hewn from the Rock and Textures. Both collections are beautifully produced and fine collections of poems. Arthur Dunkley is an elderly poet now living in England. His collection Seventy, published to commemorate his 70th birthday, looks back at his life in Zimbabwe. We Are One (With or Without) is an anthology featuring eight poets writing about HIV and AIDS, with poems in English, Shona and Ndebele.

The non-fiction is dominated by memoirs, with three books looking back at the Zimbabwean War of Liberation (also known as the Rhodesian Bush War), one from a ZANLA commander and two from white conscripts in the Rhodesian army. Cindy McVey is an American writer who reflects on her ten years spent living in Zimbabwe. To Live in Paradise won the Independent Publisher Book Awards’ Gold Medal for best Multicultural Non-Fiction and the Green Festival Book Award for Best Memoir.

No published plays could be located. Zimbabwean drama was dealt a further blow with the untimely death of playwright Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala. Best known for his plays The Bicycle Thief and Crossing, Nkala was only thirty-four when he died of cancer. Another loss to Zimbabwean literature came in the death of poet Colin Style, aged sixty-seven from a heart attack. Style had two collections of his own work, but together with his wife O-lan Style did much to promote Zimbabwean poetry, compiling anthologies and starting two poetry journals, Two Tone and Chirimo.

Bibliography: Zimbabwe

Poetry

Dunkley, Arthur S. Seventy: A Collection of Poems 113pp Fastprint (Peterborough, UK).

Eppel, John and Philani Amadéus Nyoni Hewn from Rock 44pp Pan (Bulawayo).

—– and Togara Muzanenhamo Textures 91pp ’amaBooks (Bulawayo).

Fiction

Huchu, Tendai The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician 273pp ’amaBooks (Bulawayo).

Mabeza, Christopher M. and Munyaradzi Mawere The Clash of the Titans & Other Short Stories iv+44pp Langaa Research & Publishing CIG (Mankon, Cameroon).

Machingaidze, Tendai Acacia 160pp African Perspectives (Johannesburg).

Marangwanda, Cynthia Shards 1 vol Ko Maseko Publishers (Harare).

Mlalazi, Christopher They Are Coming v+146pp Weaver Press (Harare).

Musariri, Blessing Useful Knowledge for a World Class Detective: The Black Mamba Journals 1 vol Cordite Books (Lagos).

Robert, Na’ima B. She Wore Red Trainers 261pp Kube (Markfield, UK).

Sabatini, Irene Peace and Conflict 357pp Corsair (London).

Sibanda, Benjamin When Freedom Came 222pp Partridge Africa (US).

St John, Lauren Fire Storm 279pp Orion Children’s Books (London) [for young adults].

—– The Obituary Writer 288pp Orion (London).

Vakira, Debra A Struggle Alike iv+130pp Zimbabwe Women Writers (Harare).

Anthologies

Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara ed Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 361pp Bloomsbury (New York).

The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 intro Lizzy Attree 247pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg).

We Are One (With or Without) comp Kennedy H. Madhombiro 80pp Diaspora Publishers (Newent, UK).

Criticism

General Studies

“Betwixt and Between: Explorations of Liminality in Zimbabwean War Discourses” Advice Viriri and Maurice T. Vambe Unisa School of Arts pp222–39 [see this section].

“Narratives of Trauma: Telling the Experiences of Identities in ‘Unfamiliar’ Contexts” R. Alfred Musvoto Unisa School of Arts pp93–102 [see this section].

“Political Prostitutes: Conflicting Loyalties and Identities in Middle-Class Zimbabwean Popular Theatre, 1998–2008” Praise Zenenga South African Theatre Journal 27(1) pp61–75.

Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography: Reconstructing and Remembering ed Muchativugwa Hove and Kgomotso Masemola x+186pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York).

Unisa School of Arts: Conference Proceedings 2013 ed Maurice Vambe and Bernard Nchindila 420pp Unisa Press (Pretoria).

Studies On Individual Writers

Baya, Raisedon “Desilencing the Silences on Zimbabwe: Raisedon Baya’s (2009) Tomorrow’s People and Other Plays and the Paradox of the Postcolony” Thamsanqa Moyo, Theresia Mdlongwa and James Hlongwana Elite Research Journal of Education and Review 2(4) pp95–105.

Bulawayo, NoViolet “Violence and the Nation in Selected Female-Authored Zimbabwean Post-2000 Fiction Narratives in English” R. Magosvongwe and A. Nyamende Unisa School of Arts pp103–22 [see Criticism: General].

Chikwava, Brian “Towards an Embodied Securityscape: Brian Chikwava’s Harare North and the Asylum Seeking Body as Site of Articulation” Patricia Noxolo Social & Cultural Geography 15(3) pp291–312.

—– “Uncommonly Other in Belfast, London and Harare: Alienation in Robert McLiam Wilson’s Ripley Bogle and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North” Fiona McCann Commonwealth Essays and Studies 37(1) pp67–78.

Chinodya, Shimmer “Insanity and Ailment: The Treatment of Disease in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools and Strife: A Metaphysical Perspective” Taurai Chinyanganya Unisa School of Arts pp143–52 [see Criticism: General].

Dangarembga, Tsitsi “Bodily Secrets: The History of the Starving Body in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions” Muzna Rahman Forum for Modern Language Studies 50(3) pp275–88.

—– “Negotiating Social Change in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions” D.A. Odoi, Lesibana Rafapa and E.K. Klu Journal of Social Sciences 38(2) pp151–8.

—– “Tapestries of Hope: Film, Youths and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe and South Africa” Urther Rwafa and Lesibana Rafapa Commonwealth Youth and Development 12(1) pp47–58.

—– “Theorising the Environment in Fiction: An Ecofeminist Reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions” J.S. Pasi Unisa School of Arts pp83–92 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Urban Youth Unemployment in Zimbabwe: An African-Centered Literary-Based Critique of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2006), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) and Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009)” Ruby Magosvongwe and Abner Nyamende Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 3(1/2) pp189–212.

Fuller, Alexandra “‘We Were Little Kings in Rhodesia’: Rhodesian Discourse and Representations of Colonial Violence in Kandaya and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” Murenga Joseph Chikowero Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography pp116–42 [see Criticism: General].

Gappah, Petina “Urban Youth Unemployment in Zimbabwe: An African-Centered Literary-Based Critique of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2006), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) and Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009)” Ruby Magosvongwe and Abner Nyamende Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 3(1/2) pp189–212.

Godwin, Peter “Complex Entanglements: The Intersubjective as Grounds for Political and Moral Subjectivities in Through the Darkness and Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa” H.T. Ngoshi Unisa School of Arts pp72–82 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Imagining the Nation: Autobiography, Memoir, History or Fiction in Peter Godwin’s Writings” Muchativugwa Hove Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography pp36–59 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Vortex of Violence: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Peter Godwin’s The Fear” Muchativugwa Hove Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography pp97–115 [see Criticism: General].

Gomo, Mashingaidze “Cultural Nationalism in Mashingaidze Gomo’s A Fine Madness” Rodwell Makombe Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 51(2) pp82–93.

Hanson, Ben “(Re)Affirming Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Literature in Zimbabwean Prose Narrative Fiction: Ben Hanson’s Takadini” T. Makombe and M.T. Vambe Unisa School of Arts pp162–71 [see Criticism: General].

Hoba, Lawrence “Lawrence Hoba’s Depiction of the Post-2000 Zimbabwean Land Invasions in The Trek and Other Stories” Irikidzayi Manase Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 51(1) pp5–17.

Hove, Chenjerai “Reversions and Revisions: Displacement, Heritage and History in Chenjerai Hove’s Ancestors” Muchativugwa Hove Current Writing 26(1) pp82–90.

Jinga, Tavuya “Representations of Xenophobic Otherisation in Jinga’s One Foreigner’s Ordeal and Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow” Theresia Mdlongwa and Thamsanqa Moyo Elite Research Journal of Education and Review 2(4) pp88–94.

Lessing, Doris “A Celebration of the Life of Doris Lessing: 7 April 2014” Virginia Tiger Doris Lessing Studies 32 pp30–1 [biographical].

—– “Doris Lessing and Moidi Jokl: A Reassessment” Terry Reilly Doris Lessing Studies 32 pp5–7.

—– “Doris Lessing’s Fiction: Literature as Commitment” Ester Gendusa Other Modernities (12) pp129–39.

—– “Lessing’s First Post-War London Novel: Retreat to Innocence” Robin Visel Doris Lessing Studies 32 pp8–11.

—– “Nostalgia for the Future: Remembrance of Things to Come in Doris Lessing’s Martha Quest” Frederick J. Solinger Ariel 45(3) pp75–99.

—– “Of Pigeons and Expats: Doris Lessing, Sam Selvon, and Zadie Smith” Alice Ridout Doris Lessing Studies 32 pp26–9.

—– “The Reception of Doris Lessing’s Novels in Franco’s Spain” Alberto Lázaro Atlantis 36(2) pp97–113.

—– “Shikasta and the Marriages: New Directions in Doris Lessing’s Fiction” Erinda Papa and Benita Stavre Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 5(19) pp40–7.

—– “‘Some Sort of Knowledge’ without Concepts, without Certainty” Sookyoung Lee Doris Lessing Studies 32 pp12–18.

—– “The Truth Criteria of Autobiography: Doris Lessing and Telling the Truth” Lorna Martens Auto/Biography Studies 29(2) pp319–40.

—– “‘Unanchored Fragments of Print’: Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s” Nick Bentley Doris Lessing Studies 32 pp19–26.

Lunga, Majahana “Critiquing the Self: A Postcolonial Exegesis of Majahana John Lunga’s Political Texts” M.J. Lunga Unisa School of Arts pp395–405 [see Criticism: General].

Mahachi-Harper, Spiwe Nancy “‘Lame Ducks’ in the Time of HIV/AIDS? Exploring Female Victimhood in Selected HIV/AIDS Narratives by Zimbabwean Female Writers” Cuthbeth Tagwirei Critical Arts 28(2) pp216–28.

Marechera, Dambudzo “Dambudzo Marechera’s Amelia Love Poems: Innovative or Overrated?” Drew Shaw and John Eppel Research in African Literatures 45(4) pp50–69.

—– “Madness or Mysticism? The Unconscious Ascetics of Power and Hunger” Grant Lilford Current Writing 26(2) pp169–80.

—– “Space, Place and Identities of the Carnivalesque: A Post-Colonial Reading of Selected Plays by Dambudzo Marechera” O. Seda Unisa School of Arts pp123–33 [see Criticism: General].

Mhanda, Wilfred “Reading Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter” Arthur P.T. Makanda Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography pp78–96 [see Criticism: General].

Musengezi, Gonzo H. “Heteroglossia in G.H. Musengezi’s The Honourable MP (1984)” Nyasha Mboti and Cuthbeth Tagwirei Critical Arts 28(2) pp178–98.

Mutswairo, Solomon “Shona Religion Holistically Portrayed: Selected Solomon Mutswairo Novels” Godwin Makaudze and Enna Gudhlanga Journal of Pan African Studies 6(8) pp88–105.

Muzorewa, Abel “Denomi/Nation: Envisioning Possibilities of Reconstructing an Alternative Zimbabwe in Muzorewa’s Rise up and Walk” Tasiyana Javangwe Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography pp60–77 [see Criticism: General].

Nkala, Jonathan “‘Opening Up to the Rest of Africa’?: Continental Connections and Literary (Dis)Continuities in Simão Kikamba’s Going Home and Jonathan Nkala’s The Crossing” Rebecca Fasselt Journal of Literary Studies 30(1) pp70–93.

Nkomo, Joshua “Fictions of Autobiographical Representations: Joshua Nkomo’s The Story of My Life” Maurice Vambe Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography pp4–23 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Mythicised Selves: Constructions of Political Self Identities in Nkomo’s The Story of My Life (1984) and Tekere’s A Lifetime of Struggle (2007)” T.D. Javangwe Unisa School of Arts pp49–59 [see Criticism: General].

Shaw, Angus “‘We Were Little Kings in Rhodesia’: Rhodesian Discourse and Representations of Colonial Violence in Kandaya and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” Murenga Chikowero Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography pp116–42 [see Criticism: General].

Sinclair, Ingrid “Questions of Adaptation: Bessie Head’s A Question of Power and Ingrid Sinclair’s Riches” Nyasha Mboti Current Writing 26(2) pp181–92.

St John, Lauren “Touching Trunks: Elephants, Ecology and Compassion in Three Southern African Teen Novels” Dan Wylie Journal of Literary Studies 30(4) pp25–44.

Struthers, John “Touching Trunks: Elephants, Ecology and Compassion in Three Southern African Teen Novels” Dan Wylie Journal of Literary Studies 30(4) pp25–44.

Tagwira, Valerie “Critical Reflections on Surviving against All Odds in Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope” N. Mlambo Unisa School of Arts pp406–16 [see Criticism: General].

—– “Cultured to Fail? Representations of Gender-Entangled Urban Women in Two Short Stories by Valerie Tagwira” Oliver Nyambi Sage Open Jul/Sep pp1–9.

—– “A Literary Exploration of Trauma and Resilience in Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope” Ina Cloete and Nelson Mlambo Nawa 8(2) pp92–105.

—– “The ‘New’ Woman: Changing Zimbabwean Female Identities in Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope” Oliver Nyambi English Academy Review 31(1) pp38–50.

—– “Urban Youth Unemployment in Zimbabwe: An African-Centered Literary-Based Critique of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2006), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) and Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009)” Ruby Magosvongwe and Abner Nyamende Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 3(1/2) pp189–212.

Tekere, Edgar “Mythicised Selves: Constructions of Political Self Identities in Nkomo’s The Story of My Life (1984) and Tekere’s A Lifetime of Struggle (2007)” T.D. Javangwe Unisa School of Arts pp49–59 [see Criticism: General].

Todd, Judith “Complex Entanglements: The Intersubjective as Grounds for Political and Moral Subjectivities in Through the Darkness and Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa” H.T. Ngoshi Unisa School of Arts pp72–82 [see Criticism: General].

Tshuma, Novuyo “Violence and the Nation in Selected Female-Authored Zimbabwean Post-2000 Fiction Narratives in English” R. Magosvongwe and A. Nyamende Unisa School of Arts pp103–22 [see Criticism: General].

Vera, Yvonne “Silenced Voices, Resuscitated Memory, and the Problematization of State Historiography in Yvonne Vera’s Novel The Stone Virgins” Oliver Nyambi Sage Open Apr/Jun pp1–9.

—– “Toward a Victim-Survivor Narrative: Rape and Form in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue and Calixthe Beyala’s Tu T’appelleras Tanga” Régine Jean-Charles Research in African Literatures 45(1) pp39–62.

Westerhof, Tendayi “‘Lame Ducks’ in the Time of HIV/AIDS? Exploring Female Victimhood in Selected HIV/AIDS Narratives by Zimbabwean Female Writers” Cuthbeth Tagwirei Critical Arts 28(2) pp216–28.

—– “Women Re-Defining Themselves in the Context of HIV and AIDS: Insights from Tendayi Westerhof’s Unlucky in Love” Anna Chitando Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography pp143–70 [see Criticism: General].

Wolffe, Bart “Nature and Identity in the Poetry of Bart Wolffe” Syned Mthatiwa Research in African Literatures 45(4) pp70–88.

—– “Subjectivity and Belonging in the Poetry of Bart Wolffe” Syned Mthatiwa Current Writing 26(1) pp91–9.

Non-fiction

McVey, Cindy To Live in Paradise: A Memoir of Dreams Found and Dreams Lost in the Heart of Africa 313pp Homebound Publications (Pawcatuck, Conn).

Mutambara, Agrippah The Rebel in Me: A ZANLA Guerilla Commander in the Rhodesian Bush War, 1975–1980 272pp Helion (Solihull, UK).

Pullin, W. Tales and Poems of the Rhodesian Bush-War (Circa 1967–1979) 372pp The Author (Cape Town).

Walsh, Toc Mampara: Rhodesia Regiment Moments of Mayhem by a Moronic, Maybe Militant, Madman 256pp 30º South (Durban).

Journals

Special Issues

Doris Lessing Studies 32 ed Phyllis Perrakis and Jeanie Warnock: special issue Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London ed Terry Reilly and Robin Visel 32pp.