South Africa

' Current State of Publishing & Bibliography of African Materials' John McIlwaine pp3-14 in The Love of Books; see main entry in General Studies.

' A Select Bibliography of South African Literary Writing in English, 1970-1995 ' pp265-76 in Writing South Africa; see main entry in General Studies [selected from a much fuller bibliography from the database of the National English Literary Museum].

South African National Bibliography comp S. Battison xxiv+489pp State Library (Pretoria ).

' Text and Reception in Southern Africa: A Select Bibliography of Journal Articles Published in Southern Africa, 1996-7' comp C.E. Dubbeld Current Writing 10(1) pp97-119.

A Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists Kathleen Wheeler 456pp Blackwell ( Oxford) [1997; refers to Olive Schreiner, Pauline Smith, Nadine Gordimer, Miriam Tlali and Bessie Head].

Bain, Michael Nathan The Bardic Vision: A Collection of Poems 17pp The Author ( Port Elizabeth) [1997].

Bezuidenhout, Ardoyne This and That and Something Else 36pp umSinsi (Malvern ).

Boyce, Joy Whistling in the Dark: A Book of Poetry 139pp Mallard (Cape Town ).

Cloete, Abdullah I Speak of Sacred Things ed Yasien Mohamed Taha Publishers (London) [1997].

Cummiskey, Gary and Roy Blumenthal Head: Poems 20pp Dye Hard (Johannesburg ).

Driver, Charles Jonathan Requiem 22pp Belgrave Press (Ipswich) [ 1997 for 1998].

Etienne Du Pisani , One 40pp The Author (Graaff-Reinet).

Eybers, Elisabeth Verbruikersverse = Consumer's verse 50pp Human & Rousseau ( Cape Town) [1997; text in English and Afrikaans].

Field, Geoff Job Lot 98 268pp Patfacts (Cape Town).

Fremantle, Roderick (Al Krok) Selected Letters 30pp Carapace Poets (Plumstead).

Gordin, Jeremy Pomegranates for My Son vii+64pp Random House (Johannesburg ).

Gray, Stephen Gabriel's Exhibition: New Poems 90pp Mayibuye Books ( Cape Town).

Hele, Jeremy Flies on My Forehead: A Heap of Nonsense foreword by James Clarke 44pp The Author ( Lanseria).

Hendricks, Gertjie Billy Gangsters' Paradise Dances in the Playing Fields 16pp Mawethu ( Cape Town).

— South Africa Is Burning and I Can't Stop the Flames s.n. (Cape Town).

Louw, Jethro The Cape of Storms by the Plakkerskamp Poet 8 leaves The Author (Cape Town).

— The Cape of Storms, Vol. 2: English & Afrikaans Poems by the Plakkerskamp Poet 12 leaves The Author (Cape Town).

Mabuza, Lindiwe Voices That Lead 90pp Vivlia (Johannesburg).

Maclennan, Don Of Women and Some Men: Poems 32pp Firfield Poetry ( Plumstead).

Mateer, John Echo 28pp Zero Press (Gauteng).

Moolman, Kobus and Alison Lockhart . Untitled 32pp s.n. (S.1.).

Moosa, Zohra Silence! 72pp Madiba Publishers (Dormerton) [1997 ].

Mopp, N.K. The Syclone Years: Poetry on and about the South African Situation, Metaphysics, Romance 32pp The Author (East London).

Murphy, Jaron Lloyd Proximities 33pp umSinsi (Malvern).

Neubert, Candy Zen Frog and Other Poems 31pp Carapace Poets (Plumstead).

Patel, Essop Stained Glass Images and Interludes 131pp Madiba Publishers Institute for Black Research (S.1.).

Press, Karen Echo Location: A Guide to Sea Point for Residents and Visitors 100pp Gecko Poetry ( Durban).

Rampolokeng, Lesego Blue V's: Rap Poems 145pp Marino (Munich) [parallel text in English and German; accompanied by CD].

— End Beginnings: Gedichte Englisch/Deutsch 145pp Marino (Munich ) [parallel text in English and German].

Sole, Kelwyn Love That Is Night 127pp Gecko Poetry (Durban).

Vels, Elizabeth Handspun: Words and Images 42 leaves umSinsi ( Malvern).

Watter, Lola Insights and Idylls: Including Selected 'Images from Africa': Poems 56pp Quartz Press (Parkview).

Fugard, Athol Plays One: The Road to Mecca, A Place with the Pigs, My Children! My Africa! Valley Song & Playland viii+288pp Faber and Faber ( London).

Shabangu, Isaac Saki Madiba, the Folk Hero: A Historical Closet Drama second edition vii+271pp Lingua Franca (Giyani) [1997].

Taylor, Jane from the production by William Kentridge and The Handspring Puppet Company Ubu and the Truth Commission xviii+73pp UCT Press (Cape Town ).

Andrew, Dee Mindscapes of the Nineties 41pp umSinsi (Malvern).

Bamford, Gordon Divine Anger 359pp Minerva (London).

Barris, Ken Evolution: A Novel 188pp Zebra (Halfway House).

Bosman, Herman Charles Mafeking Road and Other Stories; The Anniversary Edition ed Craig MacKenzie 151pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town).

- The Prose Juvenilia collected by M. C. Andersen xii+68pp Unisa Press (Pretoria ).

— Willemsdorp ed Stephen Gray anniversary edition 216pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town).

Brierley, David The Horizontal Woman Warner ( London ).

- On Leaving a Prague Window Warner (London).

Brink, André Devil's Valley: A Novel 372pp Secker & Warburg (London).

Cartwright, Justin Leading the Cheers 246pp Sceptre (London).

Chimeloane, Rrekgetsi The Hostel-Dwellers: A First Hand Account 108pp Kwela Books ( Roggebaai ) [autobiographical novel].

Conyngham, John The Lostness of Alice 155pp Ad Donker (Johannesburg).

Courtenay, Bryce Tommo & Hawk 673pp Viking (Victoria, Australia) [1997 ].

Cronje, Karin Vir 'n Pers Huis: 'n Heldemite 192pp Human & Rousseau ( Cape Town) [début novel in Afrikaans and English].

Davidow, Shelley To Have and to Hold 145pp Macmillan (London).

Du Plessis, P.G. The Married Man's Guide to Adultery: A Study of Adulterations 503pp Tafelberg ( Cape Town) [début English novel].

Dubrey, Neal Us Dogs and You People 142pp Pawprint (Port Elizabeth).

Edgar, Pamela The Secret Within 251pp Hale (London) [1997].

Fleischer, Anthony Okavango Gods vi+210pp David Philip (Cape Town).

Gabriel, Marius House of Many Rooms 400pp Bantam (New York, N.Y.).

Geer, Ben Something More Sinister 429pp Access Marketing and Publishing (London ).

Gordimer, Nadine The House Gun 294pp David Philip (Cape Town).

Grant, Richard E. By Design: A Hollywood Novel 261pp Picador (London).

Higgenson, Craig Embodied Laughter, and, The Gooseberry 267pp Minerva (London ).

Jacobs, Rayda The Slave Book 285pp Kwela Books (Cape Town).

Jooste, Pamela Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter 349pp Doubleday (London ).

Lock, Craig The New Rainbow xiii+109pp Minerva (London) [1997 ].

Magona, Sindiwe Mother to Mother vi+210pp David Philip (Cape Town).

Miljak, Ante Eyes of the Owl 182pp Sterling House (Pittsburg, Pa).

Molteno, Marion If You Can Walk You Can Dance 405pp Shola Books ( London).

Mosotho, Mehlaleng The Tikieline Yuppie 210pp Vivlia (Johannesburg).

Nicol, Mike The Ibis Tapestry: A Novel 210pp Knopf (New York, N.Y.).

Pitt, Bridget Unbroken Wing 327pp Kwela Books in association with Random House (Roggebaai).

Pretorius, Kenneth F. The Twist of Fate 171pp The Author (Orkney).

Scholefield, Alan Bad Timing 249pp Headline (London) [1997 ].

Sher, Antony The Feast 422pp Little, Brown (London).

Smuts, Colin Jigger Nights of Immorality 139pp Vivlia (Johannesburg).

Spencer-Smith, Tony The Stooping of Aquila 272pp Manx (Georgeville).

Strachan, Harold Way Up Way Out: A Satirical Novel 165pp David Philip ( Cape Town).

Swindells, Madge Sunstroke 437pp Little, Brown (London).

Talbot, John Inventions of Professor Zonderbaard 47pp Research Library ( Johannesburg) [1997].

Temple, Peter An Iron Rose HarperCollins (Australia).

Trapido, Barbara The Travelling Hornplayer 245pp Hamish Hamilton (London).

Masondo, M.M. One-Act Plays: A Collection of One-Act Stage, Radio and TV Plays trans Rachelle Gauton v+86pp Academica (Pretoria).

Van Heerden, Etienne Kikuyu trans Catherine Knox 315pp Kwela Books in association with Random House (Johannesburg).

Agherdien, Yusuf , Ambrose C. George and Shaheed Hendricks South End: As We Knew It x+125pp Western Research Group (Port Elizabeth) [1997; history of PE's District Six].

Alison I Have Life: Alison's Journey as told to Marianne Thamm 275pp Penguin ( Johannesburg) [biography of a woman who survived a brutal attack and rape].

Attwell, Eric The Road to London foreword by Athol Fugard 197pp Palladian Press ( Port Elizabeth) [1997; travel notes].

Axelson, Eric Vasco da Gama: The Diary of His Travels through African Waters, 1497-1499 vii+102pp Stephan Phillips (Somerset West) [diaries of male explorers including Vasco da Gama, Bartolomeu Dias, Luis Vaz de Camoes; poems by Guy Butler, D.C.F. Moodie, Lance Fallows, Roy Campbell and Sydney Clouts].

Beckett, Denis Madibaland 211pp Penguin (Johannesburg) [account of thoughts and feelings about South Africa at this stage of transformation].

— The Road Stops at Nowhere 79pp Penguin (London) [humorous autobiographical account of drive from Johannesburg to Cape Town].

Bizos, George No One to Blame: In Pursuit of Justice in South Africa foreword by Sydney Kentridge x+246pp David Philip; Mayibuye Books (Cape Town) [autobiography; struggle history].

Bonner, Philip and Lauren Segal Soweto: A History 162pp Maskew Miller Longman (Cape Town) [extracts from documents, poetry; photographs & text on Soweto].

Boynton, Graham Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland: Dispatches from White Africa xiv+299pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg) [a personal account of post-apartheid South Africa].

Breytenbach, Breyten Dog Heart: A Travel Memoir 204pp Human & Rousseau ( Cape Town).

Breytenbach, Jan Eden's Exiles: One Soldier's Fight for Paradise 259pp Queillerie ( Cape Town) [1997; wildlife and conservation autobiography].

Broadway, Charmayne and Shelley Davidow My Life with AIDS: Charmayne Broadway's Story xiv+180pp Southern Book Publishers (Halfway House ).

Bunting, Brian Moses Kotane: A Political Biography 325pp Mayibuye Books ( Cape Town).

Cibane, Wilfred Man of Two Worlds: An Autobiography 160pp Kwela Books (Cape Town).

Courtenay, Bryce The Night Country Viking ( Victoria , Australia) [autobiography].

Daniels, Eddie There and Back : Robben Island, 1964-1979 251pp Mayibuye Books ( Cape Town).

Davenport, T.R.H. The Transfer of Power in South Africa 168pp David Philip ( Cape Town); Toronto University Press ( Toronto) [S.A. history since 1990].

Davidson, Apollon and Irina Filatova The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899 -1902 287pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [refers to Olive Schreiner].

De Gruchy, Steve and Paul Germond eds Aliens in the Household of God: Homosexuality and Christian Faith in South Africa x+328pp David Philip (Cape Town) [1997; includes personal accounts].

De Klerk, F.W. The Last Trek: A New Beginning: The Autobiography xx+412pp Macmillan (London).

De Kock, Eugene and Jeremy Gordin A Long Night's Damage: Working for the Apartheid State 332pp Contra ( Saxonwold) [personal account of apartheid by the former Vlakplaas commander].

De Villiers, Marq and Sheila Hirtle Into Africa: A Journey through the Ancient Empires 400pp Jonathan Ball ( Johannesburg) [1997].

Deacon, Harriet The Essential Robben Island 72pp David Philip; Mayibuye Books ( Cape Town) [1997; biographies of political prisoners].

Elphick, Richard and Rodney Davenport eds Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural History 480pp University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Ca) [1997].

Engler, Hagen Water Features 148pp The Author (Port Elizabeth) [essays].

Evans, Ivan Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa 410pp University of California Press ( Berkeley & Los Angeles, Ca) [ 1997].

Frederikse, J. David Webster 68pp Maskew Miller Longman (Cape Town) [biography].

Friedman-Spits, C. The Fraenkel Saga 181pp The Fraenkel Society (Cape Town) [on the first Jewish medical practitioner recorded at the Cape in nineteenth century].

Gordon-Duff, Lachlan With the Gordon Highlanders, to the Boer War and beyond, the Story of Captain Lachlan Gordon-Duff, 1880-1914 365pp Travis Books ( Cheshire).

Hamilton, Carolyn Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention 296pp David Philip (Cape Town); Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass).

Hobbs, Jenny comp Paper Prophets: A Treasury of Quotations about Writers and Writing 351pp Zebra (Halfway House).

Honikman, Alfred H. In the Shadow of Apartheid 264pp Quartz Press (Johannesburg ).

Jacobson, Dan Heshel's Kingdom 243pp Hamish Hamilton (London) [biography of Jacobson's grandfather, a Lithuanian Rabbi].

Kirby, Robert Rude Shelters: A Robert Kirby Reader for Mature Cynics 254pp Jonathan Ball ( Johannesburg) [1997; anecdotes and satire].

Krog, Antjie Country of My Skull viii+286pp Random House (Johannesburg ) [personal account of involvement in TRC].

Kuzwayo, Ellen K. African Wisdom: A Personal Collection of Setswana Proverbs 56pp Kwela Books ( Roggebaai).

Leon, Tony Hope & Fear: Reflections of a Democrat ed David Welsh 282pp Jonathan Ball ( Johannesburg) [selection of speeches and other writings].

Maisels, I. A. A Life at Law: The Memoirs of I. A. Maisels, QC xii+340pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg ) [autobiography of leader of the defence in the treason trial 1956-1961].

Makgoba, Malegapuru William Mokoko: The Makgoba Affair: A Reflection on Transformation xxi+243pp Vivlia ( Florida Hills) [1997; autobiography].

Malan, Robin comp The Essential Steve Biko 79pp David Philip ; Mayibuye Books ( Cape Town) [1997].

Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla The Essential Nelson Mandela comp Robin Malan 80pp David Philip ; Mayibuye Books ( Cape Town) [1997].

Margo, Cecil Final Postponement: Reminiscences of a Crowded Life 298pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg ) [autobiography of judge of Supreme Court].

Marketos, Paul Malachite: A Journey in Africa 349pp Minerva (London ).

Mbeki, Thabo Africa, the Time Has Come: Selected Speeches 302pp Tafelberg ( Cape Town).

Meer, Shamim ed Women Speak: Reflections on Our Struggles 1982-1997 167pp Kwela Books in asssociation with SPEAK (Cape Town) [newsletter of the Durban Women's Group; includes poems by Gcina Mhlophe, Roseline Naapo, Paulinah Phungwayo, Ayesha Badat, Nise Malange and Sma Khubeka].

Middleton, Jean Convictions: A Woman Political Prisoner Remembers 144pp Ravan ( Randburg) [autobiography].

Mulholland, Stephen Another Voice viii+168pp Hodder & Stoughton (Randburg) [collection of weekly columns in the Sunday Times].

Ndlovu , Sifiso Mxolisi Uprising Remembered: Counter-Memories of June 1976 Ravan (Johannesburg) [Soweto].

Ngcelwane, Nomvuyo Sala Kahle, District Six: An African Woman's Perspective 136pp Kwela Books ( Cape Town) [autobiography].

Nicol, Mike Bra Henry 91pp Heinemann ( Johannesburg) [ 1997; on Henry Nxumalo].

— The Invisible Line: The Life and Photography of Ken Oosterbroek 144pp Kwela Books in association with Random House (Roggebaai).

Nyatsumba, Kaitzer M. All Sides of the Story: A Grandstand View of South Africa's Political Transition foreword by Thabo Mbeki xi+333pp Jonathan Ball (Johannesburg ) [1997 ].

O'Dowd, Cathy and Ian Woodall Everest: Free to Decide: The Story of the First South Africans to Reach the Highest Point on Earth 301pp Zebra ( Sandton) [1997 ; autobiography and travel].

Pettinger, Alasdair Always Elsewhere: Travels in the Black Atlantic xix+300pp Cassell (London) [travel writing by black authors; includes works by Arthur Nortje, Lewis Nkosi and Albert Luthuli].

Pilger, John Hidden Agendas 687pp Vintage (London) [critique of post-apartheid economic policy in South Africa; refers to Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Thabo Mbeki].

Player, Ian Zululand Wilderness: Shadow and Soul xii+265pp David Philip (Cape Town) [1997; autobiography].

Resnick, Laura A Blonde in Africa 351pp Alexander Books (New York, N.Y.) [ 1997; American travel writing].

Rosenthal, Richard Mission Improbable: A Piece of the South African Story foreword by Thabo Mbeki 312pp David Philip (Cape Town) [on behind the scenes negotiations leading to the political transition in South Africa].

Russell, Diana ed Behind Closed Doors in White South Africa: Incest Survivors Tell Their Stories Macmillan (Basingstoke) [1997; autobiographies].

Scheub, Harold Story 351pp University of Wisconsin (Wisconsin) [the art of storytelling, with Xhosa, Zulu and San examples; refers to Pauline Smith].

Schoeman, Karel ed Witnesses to War: Personal Documents of the Anglo-Boer War from the Collections of the South African Library 176pp Human & Rousseau (Cape Town) [personal accounts, letters and diaries].

Seepe, Sipho ed Black Perspective(s) on Tertiary Institutional Transformation Vivlia ( Johannesburg); University of Venda ( Thohoyandou).

St Leger Lawrence, Jean Hatching Out xiv+114pp Gryphon Press (Cape Town) [ 1997; second volume of autobiography].

Turkington, Kate There's More to Life Than Surface x+278pp Penguin (Parktown ) [autobiography].

Tutu, Desmond Mpilo The Essential Desmond Tutu comp John Allen 80pp David Philip ; Mayibuye Books ( Cape Town) [1997].

Tyson, Harvey Have Wings Will Fly: A Celebration of Life and Landscapes 264pp Editors Inc. ( Craighall).

Uys, Pieter-Dirk The Essential Evita Bezuidenhout 94pp David Philip ( Cape Town) [ 1997; Evita Bezuidenhout is a fictitious character created by Pieter-Dirk Uys].

Vernon, Ken Ascent & Dissent: The SA Everest Expedition: The Inside Story 292pp Jonathan Ball ( Johannesburg) [ 1997; autobiography and travel].

Vigne, Randolph Liberals against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-68 xi+268pp Macmillan (London) [ 1997; includes Alan Paton , Hugh Lewin and Z.K. Matthews ].

Webb, Tom Beachcombers 11150pp The Author (Port Alfred) [Eastern Cape anecdotes].

Weinberg, Paul In Search of the San 80pp Porcupine Press (Johannesburg) [ 1997].

Haarhoff, Dorian The Writer's Voice: A Workbook for Writers in Africa xvi+295pp Zebra ( Johannesburg).

M-NET Book Prize Archive 29pp Three Worlds Agency (Johannesburg) [Literary awards - South Africa].

Prozesky, Oskar The Centre of the World 18pp The Centre Press (Hermanus) [poetry and religion].

Birders of a Feather: Authors and Experts, Personalities and Poets ed Harvey Tyson xiv+245pp Editors Inc. (Craighall ) [includes poem by Tatamkhulu Afrika and short prose by Val Baker, Denis Beckett, James Clarke, John Platter, Ian Sinclair, Derek Solomon, Peter Sullivan, Kate Turkington, Harvey Tyson and Clive Walker].

Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays ed Kathy Perkins 224pp Routledge ( London) [includes plays by Lueen Conning, Fatima Dike, Sindiwe Magona, Ismael Mahomed, Maishe Maponya, Gcina Mhlophe, Thulani S. Mtshali, Muthal Naidoo, Duma Ndlovu and Magi Noninsi Williams].

Calamaties of Exile: Three Non-Fiction Novellas Lawrence Weschler xii+199pp University of Chicago (Chicago, III) [1997; includes A Horrible Face, but One's Own Breyten Breytenbach].

Crossings: A Senior Poetry Anthology select Annemarie Heywood vii+292pp Macmillan (London) [includes poems by Herman Charles Bosman, Breyten Breytenbach, Dennis Brutus, Roy Joseph Cotton, David John Darlow, C.J. Driver, Keith Gottschalk, Fhazel Johennesse, Deela Khan, Zuluboy Molefe, Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali, Arthur Nortje, William Plomer, Mongane Wally Serote, I. Choonara, Demetrius Segooa, M. Pascal Gwala and Patrick Fitzgerald].

Dog Poets Society: An Anthology of Dog Poems and Rhymes for Modem Times ed Francine Jones and James Thomas Andrews 70pp Great Dane Rescue Scheme ( Melkbosstrand, Cape) [1997].

Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature, 1870-1918 ed Elleke Boehmer lvi+507pp Oxford University Press ( Oxford) [includes Rudyard Kipling, Olive Schreiner, Mary Kingsley and Solomon T. Plaatje].

Encounters: An Anthology of South African Short Stories selected & intro David Medalie xxxv+236pp Witwatersrand University Press (Johannesburg) [includes Pauline Smith, H.I.E. Dhlomo, H.C. Bosman, Can Themba, Dan Jacobson, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Ahmed Essop, Mbulelo Mzamane, Christopher Hope, Njabulo Ndebele, Zoë Wicomb, Miriam Tlali, Maureen Isaacson, Brendan Cline, Chris van Wyk, Finuala Dowling, Mandla Langa, David Medalie and Ivan Vladislavic].

Let Us Play comp Zakes Mda vi+94pp Vivlia (Florida Hills) [includes plays by Zakes Mda, Walter Chakela and Hilton Swemmer].

Mad Rains: A Poetry Anthology 12pp Dye Hard (Johannesburg) [includes poems by Alan Finlay, Elza Lorenz, Gus Ferguson, J.D.U. Geldenhuys, Val Sing, Gary Cummiskey, Roy Blumenthal and Robert Homem].

Mail & Guardian Bedside Book 1998: A Selection of Superb Journalism from Africa's Best Read 160pp Mail & Guardian ( Johannesburg).

The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories ed Peter Burton 486pp Robinson (London) [1997; includes short stories by Stephen Gray and Damon Galgut].

Mirror Image ed Brian Joubert Poetry Institute of Africa at Unique Publications ( Scottburgh) [entries to Poetry Institute of Africa contest, 1998].

The New Windmill Book of Classic Short Stories eds Mike Hamlin , Christine Hall and Jane Browne Heinemann [includes Bessie Head].

The New Windmill Book of Short Stories by Women eds Mike Hamlin , Christine Hall and Jane Browne Heinemann [includes Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing].

The New Windmill Book of Stories from Around the World ed Hilary Patel Heinemann [includes Bessie Head, Norman Silver, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing].

No Free Sleeping: Poetry Donald Parenzee, Fred Vonani Bila and Alan Finlay 104pp Botsotso (Johannesburg).

Over the Rainbow: An Anthology of African Verse ed Brian S. Joubert viii+352pp Poetry Institute of Africa at Unique Publications ( Scottburgh) [1997; entries to Poetry Institute of Africa contest, 1996].

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry ed Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier 448pp Penguin ( London; Johannesburg) [includes Dennis Brutus, Mazisi Kunene, Sipho Sepamla, Don Mattera, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Oswald Mtshali, Arthur Nortje, Mongane Wally Serote and Gcina Mhlophe].

Rhythm and Muse: Your Friendly Guide to English Poetry ed J. O. Hendry 199pp Wordsmiths (Johannesburg) [includes Roy Campbell, Anthony Delius, Dennis-Brutus, James Matthews, Douglas Livingstone, Don Mattera, Sipho Sepamla, Mbuyiseni O. Mtshali, Arthur Nortje, Mongane Serote, Mafika Gwala, Francis Faller, Achmat Dangor, Chris Mann, Farouk Asvat, Fhazel Johennesse and Chris van Wyk].

Scenter: Collected for a Reading at the Hogsback Arts Festival, 26 September, 1998: Poems Brian Walter , Norman Morrissey and Cathal Lagan 37pp Lovedale Press ( Hogsback).

South African Short Stories: Volume Four, Voices comp Felicity Keats 96pp umSinsi ( Malvern) [includes short stories by Dee Andrew, Julie Osborne, Brian Duckitt, Stuart Morrison, Misty Corton, Felicity Keats, Jabulani Hlabangane, Karen Jane Swart, Shirley Bell, Chantal Christopher, Janet Whelan and Martin Clement].

South African Short Stories: Volume Three, Roots comp Felicity Keats 100pp umSinsi ( Malvern) [1997; includes short prose by Ademola Adeniji, Charl Fregona, Felicity Keats, Frances Roberts, Stuart Morrison, Paulette Dubayle-Barker, Wendy Moult, Chantal Christopher, Dee Andrew, Ann Blignaut, Patricia Karoll, Janet Whelan, Terry Raats and Elizabeth Hawskins].

Timespan: Poems Brian Walter , Norman Morrissey and Cathal Lagan 37pp Lovedale Press ( Hogsback) [1997].

The Torn Veil and Other Women's Short Stories from the Continent of Africa comp Annemarie van Niekerk xxiii+479pp Queillerie (Cape Town) [includes short fiction by Phyllis Savory, Joey Muller, Bessie Head, Miriam Tlali, Nadine Gordimer, Ellen Kuzwayo, Sheila Roberts, Jayapraga Reddy, Zoë Wicomb, Farida Karodia, Rachelle Greef, Dalene Matthee, Riana Scheepers, Maria Tholo, Jeanette Ferreira, Maureen Isaacson, Sindiwe Magona, Corlia Fourie, Joan Baker, Gladys Thomas, Arja Salafranca and Gcina Mhlophe].

Under African Skies: An Anthology of African Verse ed Brian S. Joubert 352pp Poetry Institute of Africa at Unique Publications ( Scottburgh) [entries to Poetry Institute of Africa contest, 1997].

Unwrapped: Irrelevant Fiction for a Post-Calvinist South Africa ed Ted Leggett and intro by Breyten Breytenbach 160pp Centre for Creative Arts, University of Natal (Durban) [includes short fiction by Breyten Breytenbach, Walton Golightly, Julia de Wal, Charlie Berea, George McGlenchey, Cathryn Odgers, Creed O. Booth, Deepak Raa, Frances Roberts, Shan Tampoe, Susan St Clare and Sana Gabriel].

Women Creating the Future: An Anthology of Women's Writing; Volume One ed Nobantu Rasebotsa and Leloba Molema Vivlia (Florida).

World Tapestries: An Anthology of Global Literature Globe Fearon Educational Publishers (USA) [includes Nadine Gordimer].

A Writer in Stone: South African Writers Celebrate the 70th Birthday of Lionel Abrahams ed Graeme Friedman and Roy Blumenthal ; foreword by Es'kia Mphahlele xv+255pp David Philip (Cape Town) [includes Mark Gevisser, Jane Fox, Zachariah Rapola, Julia Cumes, E. M. Macphail, Kaizer M. Nyatsumba, Douglas Reid Skinner, Tony Ullyatt, Ethelwyn Rebelo, Lionel Murcott, Douglas Livingstone, Barney Simon, Anne Kellas, Robert Royston, Michael Gardiner, Njabulo S. Ndebele, David Medalie, Eva Bezwoda, Ivan Vladislavic, Leon Joffe, Sipho Sepamla, Debby Lapidos, Catherine Stewart, Nadine Gordimer, David Farrell, Paul Christelis, Sandra Braude, Riva Rubin, Lilian Simon, Marc Glaser, Maja Kriel, Wopko Jensma, Peter Wilhelm, Christopher Hope, Nat Nakasa, Graeme Friedman, Seitlhamo Motsapi, Shirley Eskapa, Eleanor Anderson, Modikwe Dikobe, Ahmed Essop, Herman Charles Bosman, Robert Greig, Roy Blumenthal, Walter Saunders, Oswald Joseph Mtshali, Rose Zwi, Guy Butler, Don Maclennan, Frances Hunter, Gus Ferguson, Benjamin Molefi, Patrick Cullinan, Abram Hlabatau, Jonathan Morgan, Floss M. Jay, Farouk Asvat, Rose Moss, Arik Shimansky, Alistair Dredge, Pnina Fenster, Tatamkhulu Afrika, Mongane Wally Serote, Jillian Becker, Ruth Miller, Es'kia Mphahlele, Mike Alfred, Hugh Lewin, Stephen Watson, Cuz Jeppe, Francis Faller, Yvonne Kemp, Geoffrey Haresnape and Hillary Hamburger].

A Writing Life: Celebrating Nadine Gordimer ed Andries Walter Oliphant xxiv+510pp Viking (London) [essays, tributes, stories, poems and interviews to celebrate Nadine Gordimer's birthday through writing, includes Andries Walter Oliphant, Lionel Abrahams, Sipho Sepamla, Dennis Brutus, Ari Sitas, Ingrid de Kok, Morakabe Raks Seakhoa, Lisa Combrinck, C. J. Driver, Lesego Rampolokeng, Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane, Leon de Kock, Tatamkhulu Afrika, Gus Ferguson, Essop Patel, Jeremy Gordin, Francis Faller, Antjie Krog, Jeremy Cronin, Marlene van Niekerk, J. M. Coetzee, James Matthews, Peter Wilhelm, Ivan Vladislavic, Chris van Wyk, Elleke Boehmer, Joan Baker, David Medalie, Jenny Hobbs, Maureen Isaacson, Geoffrey Haresnape, Ken Barris, Achmat Dangor, Colin 'Jiggs' Smuts, Zakes Mda, Peter Horn, Mongane Wally Serote, Mike Nicol, Shaun de Waal, Jane Fox, Johnny Masilela, Joel Matlou, Gladys Thomas, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Stephen Watson, Hugh Lewin and Mike van Graan].

' Academic Exchanges' Shane Moran Alternation 5(1) pp215-39 [on universities and South African English literary studies].

' Administrative Transformation of English Departments and Successor Structures in South African Universities' Jim Phelps The English Academy Review 14 pp17-29 [1997; refers briefly to Michael Chapman and Ari Sitas].

'Ads and Amnesia: Black Advertising in the New South Africa' Eve Bertelsen pp221-41 in Negotiating the Past [see main entry below].

' The African Disaspora and Its Origins' Polly T. Rewt Research in African Literatures 29(4) pp3 13 [refers briefly to Tausa Soga and Tiyo Soga].

' African Languages as European Scripts: The Shaping of Communal Memory' Sinfree Makoni pp242-8 in Negotiating the Past [see main entry below].

The African Novel in English: An Introduction to Eight African Novels Written in English M. Keith Booker 238pp James Currey (London) [refers to Nadine Gordimer and Alex La Guma].

' Afrikaans Literature and [Metropolitan] Postcolonial Theory: Interrogations from the Margin' Philip John Journal of Literary Studies 14(1/ 2) pp18-35.

' All the World's Our Stage' David Dison Leadership 17(1) pp92-4 [on arts and culture in South Africa].

' Ambivalent Signals in South African Young Adult Novels' Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann Bookbird 36(1) pp27-32 [refers to Toeckey Jones, Lawrence Bransby, Ken Smith and Jenny Seed].

Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life eds Kofi Anyidoho , Abena P A. Busia and Anne V. Adams 320pp Africa World Press (Lawrenceville, N.J.).

Black Modernity: 20th Century Discourses between the United States and South Africa ed Ntongela Masilela 484pp Africa World Press (Lawrenceville, N.J.) [includes essays by Mazisi Kunene, Ntongela Masilela, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Bernard Magubane, N. Mangaliso, Es'kia Mphahlele and Cecil Abrahams].

Black Woman - A Woman Apart: Stereotypes and Self-Assertion in South African English Literature Gabriella Madrassi 166pp Peter Lang (Berne) [refers to Andrew Geddes Baines, Thomas Pringle, Henry Rider Haggard, William Plomer, Olive Schreiner, Sarah Gertrude Millin, Herman Charles Bosman, Alan Paton, Nadine Gordimer, Solomon Plaatje, Thomas Mofolo, Peter Abrahams, Mongane Serote, Bessie Head and Miriam Tlali; comprehensive review of the representation of the black woman in S. A. English Literature, from the 1650s to 1970 s; study focuses on two crucial periods: 1910- 1930 , 1950-1980].

' Body Images, Vital Force and Pause in Borankana Dance in Botswana' R.O.B. Nhlekisana and E. Kezilahabi Voices 1 pp170-201 [contains lyrics with English trans].

' The Boer Rebellion in South African English Fiction' J.A. Kearney Journal of Literary Studies 14(3/4) pp375-91 [refers to Francis Bancroft, Leigh Thompson, F.E. Mills Young, Stephen Black & Norman Giles].

' Botsotso Jesters' Robert Berold New Coin 34(1) pp23-31 [interview].

' Bringing Diversity to Conversation' Daniel Herwitz Current Writing 10(2) pp96-120 [on shifting identities].

' Catalyst or Detonator? Local Music Quotas and the Current South African Music "Explosion"' Gary Baines Social Dynamics 24(1) pp66-87 [refers to Dollar Brand, Johnny Clegg, James Phillips, Jennifer Ferguson, Leon Schuster, Steve Hofmeyr and Lesego Rampolokeng].

' Childhood before & after Birth' Eldred D. Jones pp1-8 in Childhood in African Literature [see main entry below; refers briefly to Yvonne Vera].

Childhood in African Literature: A Review eds Eldred Durosimi Jones and Marjorie Jones vi+150pp James Currey (Oxford) [refers to Gcina Mhlophe, Athol Fugard, Isaac Mogotsi and Peter Slingsby].

' Colonization, Violence and Narration' Stewart Crehan Alternation 4(2) pp253-5 [1997; review of Colonization, Violence, and Narration Rosemary Jolly, which refers to André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach and J.M. Coetzee].

' Commemorating, Suppressing, and Invoking Cape Slavery' Kerry Ward and Nigel Worden pp201-17 in Negotiating the Past [see main entry below].

' Communities, Memory and Apartheid: Using Black Post-Graduate Students to Record the Local Histories of an Era' Mia Roth Voices 1pp98-110.

' The Composition and Performance of Cryptic Social Messages in Zulu Onomastics ' Noleen S. Turner Voices 1 pp236-51.

' The Constitutional Entrenchment of Memory' Eduard Fagan pp249-62 in Negotiating the Past [see main entry below].

Contemporary African Fiction ed Derek Wright 266pp Bayreuth University (Bayreuth) [1997; refers to J.M. Coetzee , André Brink and Nadine Gordimer].

Conversations with Chinua Achebe ed Bernth Lindfors xviii+199pp University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, Miss) [1997 ; interview by Lewis Nkosi and Bernth Lindfors listed under Nkosi in Individual Studies].

Critical Perspectives on Post-Colonial African Children's and Young Adult Literature ed Meena G. Khorana 146pp Greenwood ( Westport, Conn) [includes article 'Stories of Passage, Stories of Crossings: Trends in South African Youth Literature from 1990 to 1995' Miki Flockemann].

' Crossing the Bridge, into the Crucible: Orality's Response to Modernity' Kate Bowes Scrutiny 23(1) pp54-7.

'Cultural Studies and Theoretical Impoverishment' K.G. Tomaselli and A. Shepperson Ecquid Novi 19(1) pp89-99 [on cultural studies; response to Keith Windschuttle's article 'The Poverty of Media Theory' published in Ecquid Novi 18(1) 1997, pp3-20].

Current Publishing Trends in South Africa' Eve Horwitz pp15-21 in The Love of Books [see main entry below [1997]].

Current Publishing Trends in Southern African Countries' Sally Schramm pp22-39 in The Love of Books [see main entry below [1997]].

' Current State of Publishing & Bibliography of African Materials' John McIlwaine pp3-14 in The Love of Books [see main entry below [1997]].

' Current Trends in the Production of South African History' Martin Legassick and Gary Minkley Alternation 5(1) pp98-129 [refers to Charles van Onselen and Isabel Hofmeyr].

'Defiant Desire(s)' Flora Veit-Wild The Zimbabwean Review 4(2) pp19-21 [refers to Mark Behr, Matthew Krouse, Kim Berman, Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron].

' The Depiction of the Zulu Wars in South African Children's Books' Thomas van der Walt pp187-203 in The Love of Books [see main entry below [1997] refers to M.W. Waters , Jenny Seed and L. Bowditch ].

'Desire and Denial in African Master-and-Servant Narratives' Stewart Crehan Pretexts 7(1) pp35-56 [refers to Es'kia Mphahlele, Lauretta Ngcobo and Sarah Mkhonza].

' Dis/Embodying Transcendence in the Early-Nineteenth Century: Ann Hamilton, Mary Moffat, the London Missionary Society and God' Wendy Woodward Journal of Literary Studies 14(1/2) pp80-101.

' The Dynamics of Postcoloniality in Literature: An African Perspective' Lekan Oyegoke Journal of Literary Studies 14(1/2) pp7-17.

'Endings and New Beginning: South African Fiction in Transition' Elleke Boehmer pp43-56 in Writing South Africa [see main entry below].

' English into the Next Millennium' Myles Holloway Scrutiny 23(2) pp35-40 [on University English teaching].

'Entrepreneurial Publishing: The Exciting Trend Towards Publishing Books in Short Runs' Monica Cromhout pp40-49 in The Love of Books [see main entry below [1997]].

' The Fifth Estate: Media Theory, Watchdog of Journalism' L. Strelitz and L. Steenveld Ecquid Novi 19(1) pp100-10 [on cultural studies; response to Keith Windschuttle's article 'The Poverty of Media Theory' published in Ecquid Novi 18(1) 1997, pp3-20].

Fissions and Fusions: Proceedings of the First Conference of the Cape American Studies Association, 4 July 1996 ed Lesley Marx, Loes Nas and Lara Dunwell; Conference of the Cape American Studies Association (1st: 1996: University of the Western Cape) vi+175pp University of the Western Cape (Cape Town) [1997; refers to Bessie Head].

' Footnotes in the Corridors of Power: A Fictional Enquiry into Personal and Institutional Culture' Damian Ruth Scrutiny 23(1) pp41-6 [on culture and education].

' Forgiving and Forgetting: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission' Anthony: Holiday pp43-56 in Negotiating the Past [see main entry below].

' From My Notebook' Es'kia Mphahlele Tribute [monthly column; January 'Renewal Time: Part 1' p96; February 'Renewal Time: Part 2' p112; March 'Bring in a Black!' p112; April 'That Age-Old Debate' p116; May 'Time's Zombies No More' p112; June 'Foot-Shuffle Blues' p112; July 'Language Traditions' p112; August 'In Each of Us, a Storyteller' p112; September 'Coaxing Death' p112; October 'Family Under Siege' p112; November 'Empower the Parents' p144; December 'Rebuilding the Family' p128.

Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality and Difference Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi xiii+p188pp Indiana University Press (Bloomington, Ind) [1997: essays on Miriam Tlali and Bessie Head separately listed in Individual Studies].

' Genesis of a Book Collector, with a Peep at Some of the Creators of Personal Collections in UCT Libraries' Tanya Barben pp147-157 in The Love of Books [see main entry below [1997]; refers to Rudyard Kipling].

' Goodbye Lena, Goodbye Poppie: Post-Apartheid Black Women's Writing' Margaret Lenta ARIEL 29(4) pp101-18 [refers to Athol Fugard, Elsa Joubert, Nadine Gordimer, Ellen Kuzwayo, Emma Mashinini, Sindiwe Magona, Miriam Tlali, Es'kia Mphahlele and Bessie Head].

' History of the South African Publishing and Book Trade' A.S.C. Hooper pp67-76 in The Love of Books [see main entry below [1997].

Hooked on Books Jay Heale 51pp Bookchat (Grabouw) [adapted, expanded and revised from: Getting Your Children Hooked on Books].

' Interfaces between the Verbal and Nonverbal in (South African) Ndebele Initiation Ritual' Chris J. van Vuuren Voices 1 pp252-66.

The Language of African Literature ed Edmund L. Epstein and Robert Kole xii+298pp Africa World Press (Trenton, N.J.) [relevant essays on Peter Abrahams, Taban Lo Liyong and Es'kia Mphahlele listed in Individual Studies].

' Language, Text and Context: A First-Level Humanities Core Course' Michael Green Scrutiny 23(2) pp41-53.

' Literary Studies Today: What's the Point?' Annamaria Carusi Scrutiny 23(2) pp27-34.

The Love of Books: Proceedings of the Seventh South African Conference of Bibliophiles Held at the South African Library Cape Town, 8-10 May 1996 ed Pieter E. Westra and Leonie Twentyman Jones 219pp South African Library ( Cape Town) [1997].

' Make Believe: Standard Bank National Arts Festival: Grahamstown, 2-12 July 1998' Keith Bain South African Theatre Journal 12(1/2) pp139-164 [refers to Harry Hofmeyr, Brett Bailey and Andrew Buckland].

Mapping Intersections: African Literature and Africa's Development ed Anne V Adams and Janis A. Mayes 328pp Africa World Press (Lawrenceville, N.J.) [includes essays on education, literacy, government involvement; refers to Alex La Guma, Mongane Wally Serote and Nadine Gordimer].

'Mask and Disguise in Ritual, Carnival and Theatre' Eli Rozik South African Theatre Journal 11(1/2) pp183-98 [1997].

' Men, Science, Travel and Nature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Cape ' William Beinart Journal of Southern African Studies 24(4) pp775-99 [refers to Mary Louise Pratt, Anders Sparrman, William Burchell, Carl Peter Thunberg, William Somerville and Mary Barber].

'" Midts Conditie dat sy Vee Souden Brenghen": Representasies van Koloniale Kontrakte uit die Seventiende Eeu' Ampie Coetzee Journal of Literary Studies 14(1/2) pp36-54 [representation and alterity in sixteenth and seventeenth century travel writing; Afrikaans text].

' Milk for Amnesia and Other Local Distillations' Nicholas Meihuizen Scrutiny 23(2) pp63-70 [reviews of works by Jeremy Cronin, Leon de Kock, Ingrid de Kok, Moira Lovell, Don Maclennan and Mongane Wally Serote].

' Mission Presses in Natal' B.M. Spencer pp77-84 in The Love of Books [see main entry above [1997]; refers to John William Colenso].

Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa eds Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee 320pp Oxford University Press (Cape Town) [autobiography, history and culture].

New Directions in African Fiction Derek Wright 201pp Twayne (New York, N.Y.) [1997; refers to J.M. Coetzee ].

' New Insights and Old Nonsense: A Rejoinder' K. Windschuttle Ecquid Novi 19(1) pp111-15 [on cultural studies; response to 'Cultural Studies and Theoretical Impoverishment' K.G. Tomaselli and A. Shepperson , pp89-99 and 'The Fifth Estate' L. Strelitz and L. Steenveld , pp100-10 of same issue].

' A New Masculine Identity: Gender Awareness Raising for Men' Jeremy Daphne Agenda 37 pp24-29 [on Gender Education and Training Network workshops].

' No Power without Aesthetic Passion and Invention' Alan James Current Writing 10(1) pp121-37 [reviews of works by Perseus Adams, Don Maclennan, Ruth Keech, Moira Lovell, Ingrid de Kok, Michael Cawood Green and Jeremy Cronin].

' No Room for Romantics' Justin Fox Leadership 17(2) pp60-4 [on Vasco da Gama's influence on modern history].

The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino André Brink vii+373pp UCT Press (Cape Town).

' Oral Poetry Exhibition and Performance Festival: Grahamstown Festival, July 1998' Mxolisi Nyezwa New Coin 34(2) pp71-4 [refers to Ike Muila, Isabella Motadinyane, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya and Keith Gottschalk].

'Oral-Print Transfers and Linguistic Mediations: Cultural Translation' in the Oral Storytelling of the /Xam Bushmen' Duncan Brown Voices 1 pp59-72 [refers to W.H.I. Bleek, Lucy C. Lloyd, Stephen Watson and Megan Biesele].

' Playing Dangerously: Risking Salvation with Stories' Wally Willies Journal of Literary Studies 14(3/4) pp235-44 [on creativity and subjectivity, refers briefly to André Brink].

' The Plot Structure of the Ogre Folktales in Khoekhoe Folklore with Specific Reference to the Character of the Ogre' Levi Namaseb Voices 1 pp149-69.

Post-Colonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory Dennis Walder xii+232pp Blackwell (Oxford ) [includes discussion of South African literature in the interregnum].

' Postcolonial Criticism in an African(ist) Frame' Gaurav Desai Research in African Literatures 29(1) pp211-18 [reviews of "Return" in PostColonial Writing ed Vera Mihailovich-Dickman and The Ballistic Bard Judie Newman; both include South African authors].

'Publication of the Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP) on CDROM' Antoinette Kotze pp59-66 in The Love of Books [see main entry above [1997]].

' Register as a Function of Contextualization: A Survey of the Southern African Variety of English' Benjamin J. Magura pp265-88 in The Language of African Literature [see main entry above [on syntax and style]].

'Remembering Tragedy, Constructing Modernity: Robben Island as a National Monument' Harriet Deacon pp161-79 in Negotiating the Past [see main entry above].

' Representation of the City and Literature' Richard Samin Newtown Zebra 9 pp12-13 [refers briefly to R.R.R. Dhlomo and Alex La Guma].

'Resistance and Remembrance: Theatre during and after Dictatorship and Apartheid ' Cathy Maree South African Theatre Journal 12 (1/2) pp11-33 [refers to Jane Taylor and William Kentridge].

' Rewriting Mainline Poetry as a Means of Engaging with the Canon' Geoffrey Haresnape English Studies in Africa 40(2) pp89-95 [1997].

' Rewriting the Land; or, How (Not) to Own It' Stewart Crehan English in Africa 25(1) pp1-26 [refers to J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Francois Le Vaillant, William J. Burchell and John Barrow; refers briefly to Olive Schreiner, Pauline Smith, Guy Butler, Thomas Pringle and Doris Lessing].

' Rewriting the Past' Mbulelo Mzamane Tribute (Jun) pp60-4 [on the Drum era; refers to A.C. Jordan and Zakes Mda].

' The Rules of Physiognomy: Reading the Convict in South African Prison Writing ' David Schalkwyk Pretexts 7(1) pp81-96 [refers to Alex La Guma, Jeremy Cronin, Moses Dlamini, Indres Naidoo, Albie Sachs, Herman Charles Bosman and Nelson Mandela].

' A Sad Tale's Best for South Africa?' Martin Orkin Textual Practice 11(1) pp1-23 [1997; on Shakespeare in South Africa].

'Shelley and the Soweto Poets: Projects of Resistance, Visions of Freedom ' Merle A. Williams English Studies in Africa 40(2) pp77-87 (1997; refers to Mongane Wally Serote, Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali, James Matthews, Stanley Motjuwadi, H.I.E. Dhlomo and Mafika Pascal Gwala].

' A Snowball in Africa with a Chance of Flourishing: Writing Centres as Shifters of Power in a South African University' Pam Nichols Current Writing 10(2) pp84-95 [on university English teaching].

' A Social Function for Literature? Two Women Critics and South African English Literary Studies, 1939-1948' Corinne Sandwith Alternation 5(1) pp169-90.

' South Africa' Elwyn Jenkins Bookbird 36(1) pp46-50 [on the development of children's literature; refers to Sir James Percy FitzPatrick and Jenny Seed].

'South African Poetry: A Personal View' Stewart Conn Scrutiny 23(1) pp58-63 [refers to Irma Stern, Leon de Kock, Ian Tromp, Don Maclennan, Jeremy Cronin, Ingrid de Kok, Patrick Cullinan and Basil du Toit].

'The Story of Eva [Krotoa]: Translation Transgressed' Pieter Conradie Journal of Literary Studies 14(1/2) pp55-66 [refers to Jan van Riebeeck, Karen Press, André Brink and Antoinette Pienaar].

' Survival Roads and Narrative Strategies: Some Comments on African Writing ' Lekan Oyegoke Journal of Literary Studies 14(3/4) pp270-80 [on magical realism, landscape and the metaphysical].

' Telling "Free" Stories? Memory and Democracy in South African Autobiography since 1994' Sarah Nuttall pp75-88 in Negotiating the Past [see main entry above; refers to Bloke Modisane; other authors separately listed in Individual Studies].

' Translation at the Crossroads of History: Interview with Ana Blandiana in South Africa' Ileana Dimitriu Current Writing 10(2) pp62-83 [refers to Jeremy Cronin].

' Visibly Invisible: How Shifting the Conventions of the Traditionally Invisible Puppeteer Allows for More Dimensions in Both the Puppeteer-Puppet Relationship and the Creation of Theatrical Meaning in Ubu & the Truth Commission' Yvette Coetzee South African Theatre Journal 12(1/2) pp35-51 [refers to Jane Taylor and William Kentridge].

Voicing the Text: South African Oral Poetry and Performance Duncan Brown 291pp Oxford University Press (Cape Town) [refers to Isaiah Shembe, Ingoapele Madingoane, Mzwakhe Mbuli and Alfred Qabula].

' What Publishers Are Publishing and What Children Want to Read' Jay Heale Bookbird 36(1) pp36-8.

When the Dead Return: Play and Seriousness in African Masked Performances ' Osita Okagbue South African Theatre Journal 11(1/2) pp89-107 [1997].

' The White Scribes of Africa' Sarah Penny Leadership 17(3) pp104-9 [on writing by white South Africans; refers to Pamela Jooste, Jo-Anne Richards, Jann Turner, Nadine Gordimer and André Brink].

' Who Made the Karoo? A Materialist Text-Map of the Eastern Cape' Beth Jeffery English Studies in Africa 40(2) pp57-75 [1997; refers to Don Maclennan, Baleka Kgositsile, Bernard Levinson, Mzi Mahola, Zakes Mda, Thomas Pringle, Gavin Mabie, Arthur Nortje, S. E. K. Mqhayi, Cosmo Pieterse, Mongane Wally Serote and Stephen Gray].

' A Woman Who Made Her Mark in History but Remained Marginalised in the Documents of History: Petronella van Heerden' Annemarie van Niekerk Journal of Literary Studies 14(3/4) pp348-74 [on revisionist feminist literary historiography].

' Writing in a Continent Under Siege' Sanya Osha Research in African Literatures 29(1) pp174-8 [refers to Nadine Gordimer and Kole Omotoso].

Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995 eds Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jolly xv+288pp Cambridge University Press (Cambridge).

Xhosa Poets and Poetry Jeff Opland xv+365pp David Philip (Cape Town).

Abrahams, Lionel 'Lionel and the Renoster: Editor and Critic: A Critical Appraisal' Michael Gardiner pp43-9 in A Writer in Stone [see entry in Anthologies].

— ' Reality is the Richest Source: An Interview with a Friend' Hillary Hamburger pp233-44 in A Writer in Stone [see entry in Anthologies].

Abrahams, Peter 'Aspects of Language in the African Literary Autobiography' Tony E. Afejuku pp54-68 in Childhood in African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

—' Language as Sensation: The Use of Poetic and Evocative Language in Five African Autobiographies' Tony E. Afejuku pp3-17 in The Language of African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

Afrika, Tatamkhulu 'From District Six to a Wendy House' Karen Shenfield The Canadian Review of Books 26(7) pp7-11 [1997; reviews of The Lemon Tree, Nine Lives and Turning Points].

Bailey, Brett 'Performing so the Spirit May Speak' Brett Bailey South African Theatre Journal 12(1/2) pp191-202 [on his plays].

Bancroft, Francis 'Francis Bancroft's Of Like Passions and the Politics of Sex in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa' Gareth Cornwell English in Africa 25(2) pp1-35 [also refers to Sol T. Plaatje].

Behr, Mark 'Perverted Rites of Passage' Mervyn McMurty Agenda 37 pp101-3 [review of The Smell of Apples].

— See also Negotiating the Past in General Studies.

Biko, Steve 'The End of the Black Man' Kopano Ratele Agenda 37 pp60-4.

Bleek, W.H.I. 'Earth and Stone: Archaeology as Memory' Martin Hall pp180-200 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

— ' Silence in My Father's House: Memory, Nationalism, and Narratives of the Body ' Steven Robins pp120-40 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

Blignaut, Aegidius Jean 'In the Shadow of Oom Schalk Lourens: Aegidius Jean Blignaut's "Hottentot Ruiter'" Craig MacKenzie English Studies in Africa 41(2) pp23-34 [also refers to Herman Charles Bosman].

Bosman, Herman Charles 'The Early Writings of Herman Charles Bosman' M.C. Andersen Commonwealth Essays and Studies 20(2) pp26-39.

— See also A Writer in Stone in Anthologies.

Breytenbach, Breyten Breyten Breytenbach as Openbare Figuur Francis Galloway 365pp HAUM-Literêr (Pretoria) [Afrikaans text].

Brink, André 'The Art of Literary Ventriloquism' André Brink Leadership 17(4) p110.

— ' I Am Dead: You Cannot Read: André Brink's On the Contrary' Peter Horn pp29-42 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

—' Interrogating Silence: New Possibilities Faced by South African Literature ' André Brink pp14-28 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

— 'The Madness of Scheherazade' André Brink Leadership 17(3) pp91-3 [on story telling].

— 'Postcolonial Imaginings: An Exploration of Postcolonial Tendencies in André Brink's Prose Oeuvre' Godfrey Meintjes Journal of Literary Studies 14(1/2) pp166-93.

— 'A Rugby Reverie' André Brink Leadership (Aug) pp36-9 [1997; on South African rugby].

— 'Stories of History: Reimagining the Past in Post-Apartheid Narrative ' André Brink pp29-42 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

— 'Theatre and the Struggle of Memory against Forgetting in Spain, Latin America and South Africa' Cathy Maree Journal of Literary Studies 14(3/4) pp299-321.

Campbell, Roy 'The Specter of Adamastor: Heroic Desire and Displacement in "White" South Africa' Jonathan Crewe Modern Fiction Studies 43(1) pp27-52 [1997].

Clark, Sue 'Aesthetes and Democrats: Reading the Critical Reception of The Heart in Exile and Sue Clark's The False Bay Cycle' Michael Titlestad Scrutiny 23(1) pp28-37 [also refers to Stephen Watson].

Clegg, Johnny 'The Issues of Interculturalism Which Inform the Creation and Performance of South African Indian Fusion Dance' Suria Govender Voices pp300-9.

Coetzee, J.M. 'An Allegory of Re-Reading: Post-Colonialism, Resistance, and J. M. Coetzee's Foe' Kwaku Larbi Korang pp180-97 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry below].

—' "A Bored Spinster with a Locked Diary": The Politics of Hysteria in In the Heart of the Country' Chiara Briganti pp84-99 in Critical Essays on J. M. Coetzee [see main entry below].

— 'Cancerous Bodies and Apartheid in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron' Fiona Probyn pp214-25 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry below].

— ' Charting J. M. Coetzee's Middle Voice: In the Heart of the Country ' Brian Macaskill pp66-83 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry below].

— Critical Essays on J. M. Coetzee ed Sue Kossew ix+242pp Hall (New York); Prentice Hall International (London) [essays listed separately].

—' "Dialogue" and "Fulfilment" in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron' David Attwell pp166-79 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

— ' The Idea of Gardening: Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee ' Nadine Gordimer pp139-44 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above [review]].

— ' Intertextuality, Power and Danger: Waiting for the Barbarians as a Dirty Story' Judie Newman pp126-38 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

— ' Irony, Allegory and Empire: Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country' Bill Ashcroft pp100-16 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

—' J.M. Coetzee: Writing in the Middle Voice' Teresa Dovey pp 18-28 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

— " The Labyrinth of My History": J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands' David Attwell pp29-49 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

— 'A Late Bourgeois Tomb: J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and White South African Writing in the Nineteen-Eighties' Teresa Dovey pp43-55 in Contemporary African Fiction [see entry in General Studies [1997]; also refers to Nadine Gordimer and André Brink].

—` Life & Times of John C. ' Caryl Phillips English in Africa 25(1) pp61-70.

—` Literary Form and the Demands of Politics: Otherness in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron' Derek Attridge pp198-213 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

—` Literature and Politics: Currents in South African Writing in the Seventies ' Michael Vaughan pp50-65 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

— ' Making the "Revolutionary Gesture": Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Some Variations on the Writer's Responsibility' Kelly Hewson pp145-56 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

—' The Master of Petersburg: Confession and Double Thoughts in Coetzee and Dostoevsky ' Rachel Lawlan ARIEL 29(2) pp131-57.

— ' Places of Pigs: The Tension between Implication and Transcendence in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and The Master of Petersburg' Mike Marais pp226-38 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

— ' The Post-Apartheid Sublime: Rediscovering the Extraordinary' Graham Pechey pp57-74 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

—` The South African Literary Establishment and the Textual Production of "Woman" ' Josephine Dodd pp157-65 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above; refers briefly to Lewis Nkosi].

— ' Speech and Silence in the Fictions of J.M. Coetzee' Benita Parry pp149-65 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

— ' Towards a True Materialism: Review of Waiting for the Barbarians' Menàn du Plessis pp117-25 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

— ' "Where Is Hope?": Coetzee's Rewriting of Dante in Age of Iron' David E. Hoegberg English in Africa 25(1) pp27-42.

—' "Women's Words": A Reading of J. M. Coetzee's Women Narrators' Sue Kossew pp166-79 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

—` Writing with Eyes Shut: Ethics, Politics, and the Problem of the Other in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee' Mike Marais English in Africa 25(1) pp43-60 [also refers to Rosemary Jolly and Sue Kossew].

Collen, Lindsey 'Memory Politics in the Narratives of Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita' Sue Thomas pp123-37 in Contemporary African Fiction [see entry in General Studies [1997]].

Cope, Jack 'The Moment of Trek: Literary and Political Criticism in the South African English Periodical Press, 1941-1947' Corinne Sandwith Current Writing 10(1) pp17-38.

Cronin, Jeremy 'Inside Out: Jeremy Cronin's Lyrical Politics' Brian Macaskill pp187-203 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

— 'Jeremy Cronin' Robert Berold New Coin 34(2) pp33-41 [interview].

— 'More than a Political Poet' Rustum Kozain New Contrast 101 26(1) pp66-72 [review of Even the Dead].

— 'A Passionate Struggle for the Desirable' Jeremy Cronin Leadership 17(1) pp74-7 [on socialism and democracy in South Africa].

Dangarembga, Tsitsi 'Carving a Niche: Visions of Gendered Childhood in Buchi Emecheta's The Bride Price and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions' Pauline Ada Uwakweh pp9-21 in Childhood in African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

Leon De Kock , 'Aesthetes and Democrats: Reading the Critical Reception of The Heart in Exile and Sue Clark's The False Bay Cycle' Michael Titlestad Scrutiny 23(1) pp28-37 [also refers to Stephen Watson].

—` The Wilderness in the Blood' Dan Wylie The English Academy Review 14 pp176-91 [1997; review].

De Kok, Ingrid 'Cracked Heirlooms: Memory on Exhibition' Ingrid de Kok pp57-71 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies [on the depiction of history in museums]].

De Waal, Shaun 'Locked in the Confessional' David Buckham New Contrast 98 25(2) pp89-96 [1997; review of These Things Happen].

—`A Reply to David Buckham's Review' Tim Trengove Jones New Contrast 101 26(1) pp73-80 [response to David Buckham's review of These Things Happen by Shaun de Waal; see above].

— 'The World According to T.J.: Responding to Tim Trengove Jones after His Reply to My Review of Shaun de Waal's These Things Happen' David Buckham New Contrast 103 26(3) pp92-6 [see above].

Dhlomo, H.I.E. 'Whose "Muti" in the Web of It? Seeking "Post" - Colonial Shakespeare ' Martin Orkin Journal of Commonwealth Literature 33(2) pp15-37 [refers briefly to Zakes Mda, Junction Avenue Theatre Company, William Kentridge, Athol Fugard, Mbongeni Ngema, Percy Mtwa, Barney Simon and Maishe Maponya].

Dike, Fatima 'Spinning Out the Present: Narrative, Gender, and the Politics of South African Theatre' Dennis Walder pp204-20 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

Fairbridge, Kingsley 'The Fall from Grace of Kingsley Fairbridge' Elwyn Jenkins The English Academy Review 14 pp73-86 [1997; refers briefly to Jenny Seed].

Fugard, Athol 'An Interview' Simon Lewis Illuminations 14 pp75-81.

—` Notes on South Africa and Australian Theatre' Stephen Gray South African Theatre Journal 12(1/2) pp172-7.

—` South African Theatre in the United States: The Allure of the Familiar and of the Exotic' Jeanne Colleran pp221-36 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

—`Spinning Out the Present: Narrative, Gender, and the Politics of South African Theatre' Dennis Walder pp204-20 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

—` Trapped Childhood: A Study of Athol Fugard's Cousins and Isaac Mogotsi's The Alexandra Tales' Lekan Oyegoke pp102-10 in Childhood in African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

—`Triangles of Race: Athol Fugard's "Master Harold" ... and the Boys and Paul Slabolepszy's Saturday Night at the Palace' Albert Wertheim Commonwealth Essays and Studies 20(1) pp86-95 [1997].

Galgut, Damon 'A Man's World: White South African Gay Writing and the State of Emergency' Michiel Heyns pp108-22 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

Goldblatt, David 'The World of David Goldblatt' Hugh Murray Leadership 17(3) pp74-87 [review of South Africa: The Structure of Things Then].

Gordimer, Nadine 'All's Unfair in Love and War' André Brink pp419-425 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

—` Because I Marvel: Interview with Nadine Gordimer' Maureen Isaacson pp442-452 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

—` The Critical Reception of Nadine Gordimer' Dorothy Driver pp67-78 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— ' The Final Safari: On Nature, Myth, and the Literature of the Emergency' Rita Barnard pp123-40 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

- From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer Louise Yelin ix+197pp Cornell University Press (Ithaca, N.Y.).

— 'The Heart of the Novel' André Brink Leadership 17(2) pp84-8 [biographical ; includes review of The House Gun].

— 'Hillela and the Whale' Ronald Suresh Roberts pp49-66 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— 'An Interview with Nadine Gordimer' Karen Ruth Lazar pp426-41 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— 'Lemmings, Cats, Pigs: Gordimer's Women during the Interregnum and Beyond ' Karen Ruth Lazar pp19-48 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— ' Letter to Nadine' Günter Grass pp111-12 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— 'Making the "Revolutionary Gesture": Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee and Some Variations on the Writer's Responsibility' Kelly Hewson pp145-56 in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee [see main entry above].

— ' The Meaning of an Island' Stephen Watson pp460-5 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— ' Nadine Gordimer: A Writing Life' Stephen Clingman pp3-18 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

—` Nadine Gordimer and South African Politics' Anthony Sampson pp99-101 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— ' Nadine Gordimer and the Afrikaner' Ampie Coetzee pp95-98 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— 'Nadine Gordimer at Seventy-Five' Lewis Nkosi pp102-10 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— ' On Nadine Gordimer' Per Wastbërg pp84-94 A Writing Life [see main entry below].

— ' Shame and Identity: The Case of the Coloured in South Africa' Zoë Wicomb pp91-107 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies] [refers briefly to Richard Rive, Bessie Head, Mtutuzeli Matshoba & Don Mattera].

—' A Slip of a Girl' Guy Butler pp113-17 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

—` Troubled Enchantments: A Tribute to Nadine Gordimer' Albie Sachs pp81-3 in A Writing Life [see main entry below].

A Writing Life: Celebrating Nadine Gordimer ed Andries Walter Oliphant xxiv+510pp Viking (London).

Gordon, Robert Jacob 'Natural History and the Representation of South Africa in the Eighteenth Century' Siegfried Huigen Journal of Literary Studies 14(1/2) pp67-79.

Gray, Stephen 'A Man's World: White South African Gay Writing and the State of Emergency ' Michiel Heyns pp108-122 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

— 'Voyaging in Search of Pepper and Slaves: Some Recent Literature on Vasco da Gama' Stephen Gray The Journal of African Travel-Writing 4 pp17-19.

Haarhoff, Dorian 'Of Monkeys and Human Memory: Teaching Creative Writing' Dorian Haarhoff Scrutiny 23(1) pp47-53.

Haggard, Henry Rider 'Merensky and Nachtigal in Southern Africa: A Contemporary Source for King Solomon's Mines' Joseph O. Vogel The Journal of African Travel-Writing 4 pp20-30.

Hauptfleisch, Temple 'Categories and Cultural Continuums: A Response to Theatre & Society in South Africa by Temple Hauptfleisch: 1997, Cape Town, Van Schaik' Miki Flockemann South African Theatre Journal 12(1/2) pp244-52 [review; refers briefly to Fatima Dike].

Head, Bessie 'An Approach to Power Relations: Bessie Head and Luisa Valenzuela' Marita Wenzel Literator 19(1) pp51-64.

—` The First African Womanist Workshop' Chichi Aniagolu Agenda 37 pp96-100.

— Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality and Difference Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi xiii+188pp Indiana University Press ( Bloomington, Ind) [1997; refers to Miriam Tlali].

—` Protest and Commitment in Bessie Head's Utopia' Sophia Obiojulu Ogwude Research in African Literatures 29(3) pp70-81.

—` Psychic Journeys and the Fragmented Self: Navigating Bessie Head's A Question of Power and Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy' Maxime Sample pp64-71 in Fissions and Fusions [see entry in General Studies [1997]].

—` Reconstructing Masculinity in the Postcolonial World of Bessie Head' Earl G. Ingersoll ARIEL 29(3) pp95-116.

—` Translating Oral Culture into Literary Form: The Short Fiction of Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Njabulo Ndebele and Bessie Head' Craig MacKenzie pp57-65 in Contemporary African Fiction [see entry in General Studies [1997]].

—` Women and Transformation: A Recurrent Theme in Head and Ngugi' Nettie Cloete Literator 19(2) pp31-45.

— See also Writing South Africa in General Studies.

Hope, Christopher 'Mind Out for the Mastodons' Christopher Hope Leadership 17(1) pp18-21 [on socio-economic issues in South Africa].

Horn, Peter ' "Here Be Dragons": Challenging "Liberal" Constructions of Protest Poetry ' Priya Narismulu Alternation 5(1) pp191-214.

Jacobson, Dan 'A Way of Seeing: Dan Jacobson's Heshel's Kingdom' Sheila Roberts Current Writing 10(1) pp57-73.

Jensma, Wopko "Onder Ander": Wopko Jensma's Poetry in Afrikaans' Michael Gardiner English Studies in Africa 40(2) pp43-56 [1997].

Jurgens, Richard 'The Civil War That Never Happened' Richard Jurgens Leadership 17(2) 40-7 [on farm killings].

Ka Pepeteka , Tembile 'Interview: Tembile ka Pepeteka' Mxolisi Nyezwa Kotaz 1(4) pp22-5.

Keech, Ruth 'The Wilderness in the Blood' Dan Wylie The English Academy Review 14 pp176-91 [1997; review of The Sound of Rain].

Kentridge, William 'Memory and History in William Kentridge's History of the Main Complaint ' Michael Godby pp100-11 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

La Guma, Alex. 'Alex La Guma's Politics and Aesthetics' Jabulani Mkhize Alternation 5(1) pp130-68 [includes biographical details; also refers to James La Guma].

—` Kaaps, Colouredism and Comics: Alex La Guma's Early Writings' Roger Field Pretexts 7(1)pp57-79 [also refers to James La Guma].

Landsman, Anne 'A Real and Magical Devil' André Brink Leadership (Aug) pp117-19 [1997; review of The Devil's Chimney].

Langa, Mandla 'Will the Dark Horse Drink?' Mandla Langa Leadership (Aug) pp66-72 [1997; on the Deputy Director-General of Communications].

Langenhoven, C.J. 'The Politics of a Cultural Controversy: Langenhoven and Pornography in 1930' Stefan Sonderling Journal of Literary Studies 14(3/4) pp322-47.

Le Vaillant, Francois 'Le Vaillant's Voyages and the Circumstances Surrounding the Publication of the Voyages' Ian Glenn pp85-93 in The Love of Books [see entry in General Studies [1997]].

Lessing, Doris From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer Louise Yelin ix+197pp Cornell University Press (Ithaca, N.Y.).

—` Reeducating Readers: Creating New Expectations for The Golden Notebook ' Beth A. Boehm Narrative 5(1) pp88-98 [1997].

Lloyd, Lucy C. 'Earth and Stone: Archaeology as Memory' Martin Hall pp180-200 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

—` Silence in My Father's House: Memory, Nationalism, and Narratives of the Body ' Steven Robins pp120-40 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

Lo Liyong, Taban 'The Stylistic Significance of the Graphological Structure of Taban Lo Liyong's Another Nigger Dead' Ogo A. Ofuani pp229-49 in The Language of African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

—` Taban Lo Liyong in South Africa' Stephen Gray ALA Bulletin 23(4) pp8-10 [1997; interview].

— 'Taban Lo Liyong's The Uniformed Man: A Reconstructivist and Metafictional Parody of Modernism' F. Odun Balogun pp251-62 in The Language of African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

Lobo, Jerome 'Father Lobo, Ethiopia, and the Transkei; or, Why Rasselas Was Not a Mpondo Prince' M. van Wyk Smith The Journal of African Travel-Writing 4 pp5-16.

Maclennan, Don 'Acceptance Speech for the Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry, 1997' Don Maclennan The English Academy Review 14 pp281-4 [1997].

Magona, Sindiwe 'Up Close and Personal' Siphokazi Koyana Tribute (Oct) pp76-8 [interview].

Mandela, Nelson 'Myth and Reality in the Struggle against Apartheid' Martin Legassick Journal of Southern African Studies 24(2) pp443-58 [review of Long Walk to Freedom].

— See also Negotiating the Past in General Studies.

Maponya, Maishe 'New Challenges Facing Theatre Practitioners in the New South Africa' Maishe Maponya pp249-56 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

Matshoba, Mtutuzeli 'Translating Oral Culture into Literary Form: The Short Fiction of Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Njabulo Ndebele and Bessie Head' Craig MacKenzie pp57-65 in Contemporary African Fiction [see entry in General Studies [1997].

— See also Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee above.

Matthews, James 'A Black Voice Shouts' James Matthews Tribute (Feb) pp60-3 [autobiographical writing].

Maunick, Edouard J. 'Interview with Edouard J. Maunick' Stephen Gray Research in African Literatures 29(2.) pp193-7.

Mda, Zakes 'Acceptance Speech for the Olive Schreiner Prize, 1997' Zakes Mda The English Academy Review 14 pp279-81 [1997; refers briefly to Achmat Dangor].

— ' Current Trends in Theatre for Development in South Africa' Zakes Mda pp257-64 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

— 'Fiction for Development: Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying' Margaret Mervis Current Writing 10(1) pp39-56 [refers briefly to Njabulo S. Ndebele].

Mhlophe, Gcina 'Spinning Out the Present: Narrative, Gender, and the Politics of South African Theatre' Dennis Walder pp204-20 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

— ' "While She Watered the Morning Glories": Evaluating the Literary Achievement of Gcina Mhlophe' Devarakshanam Betty Govinden pp69-81 in Childhood in African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

Mofolo, Thomas 'Chinua Achebe, History-Teller' Alain Severac Commonwealth Essays and Studies 21(1) pp19-30.

— 'From Shaka to Shakespeare: The Study of English in South Africa Today ' Michael Chapman The English Academy Review 14 pp87-95 [1997].

— 'Reading Africa: Mofolo's Chaka and the Subject of English' Myrtle Hooper Current writing 10(2) pp19-37 [refers briefly to Daniel P. Kunene and Sol T. Plaatje ].

Mogotsi, Isaac 'Trapped Childhood: A Study of Athol Fugard's Cousins and Isaac Mogotsi's The Alexandra Tales' Lekan Oyegoke pp102-10 in Childhood in African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

Motsapi, Seitlhamo 'Stepping with Seitlhamo Motsapi: Direction for South African Poetry' Ndavhe Ramakuela English Studies in Africa 40(2) pp33-41 (1997: also refers to Lesego Rampolokeng, Leon de Kock and Ian Tromp].

Mphahlele, Es'kia 'Aspects of Language in the African Literary Autobiography' Tony E. Afejuku pp54-68 in Childhood in African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

— 'Language as Sensation: The Use of Poetic and Evocative Language in Five African Autobiographies' Tony E. Afejuku pp3-17 in The Language of African Literature [see entry in General Studies].

— See also 'From My Notebook' in General Studies.

Ndebele, Njabulo S. 'Home for Intimacy' Njabulo S. Ndebele pp455-459 in A Writing Life [see main entry under Gordimer [on post-apartheid South Africa].

— ' Memory, Metaphor, and the Triumph of Narrative' Njabulo Ndebele pp19-28 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

— 'Post-Apartheid Reason: Critical Theory in South Africa' Graham Pechey Current Writing 10(2) pp3-18 [refers briefly to J.M. Coetzee].

— ' Translating Oral Culture into Literary Form: The Short Fiction of Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Njabulo Ndebele and Bessie Head' Craig MacKenzie pp57-65 in Contemporary African Fiction [see entry in General Studies [1997]].

— 'Whither English in the 21st Century?' Njabulo S. Ndebele Current Writing 10( 1 ) pp87-96.

— See also A Writer in Stone in Anthologies.

— See also Writing South Africa in General Studies.

Nel, Susarha 'The Diary of Susarha Nel and Her Ordeal in the "Death Camp" at Mafeking, July 1901-August 1902' John Bottomley and Carla Luijks New Contree 44 pp33-5.

—` The Diary' Susarha Nel New Contree 44 pp37-53 [extracts from diary; parallel text in English and Dutch].

Ngema, Mbongeni 'South African Theatre in the United States: The Allure of the Familiar and of the Exotic' Jeanne Colleran pp221-36 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

Nkosi, Lewis 'At the Crossroads Hour' Lewis Nkosi London Review of Books (12 Nov) pp13-15 [review of Chinua Achebe: A Biography, Ezenwa-Ohaeto].

— 'Conversation with Chinua Achebe' Lewis Nkosi and Wole Soyinka pp11-17 in Conversations with Chinua Achebe [see entry in General Studies [1997; interview].

— ' Postmodernism and Black Writing in South Africa' Lewis Nkosi pp75-90 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

Nortje, Arthur "No Longer Need I Shout Freedom in the House": Arthur Nortje, the English Poetical Tradition and the Breakdown of Communication in South African English Poetry in the 1960s' Ralph Pordzik English Studies in Africa 41(2) pp35-53.

Nyatsumba, Kaizer 'The Looking-Glass War' Kaizer Nyatsumba Leadership 17(1) pp34-7 [on the role of the media in South Africa].

Omotoso, Bankole 'Nigeria: Enough to Give You a Heart Attack' Bankole Omotoso Leadership 17(3) pp52-9.

—` A Voyage of Rediscovery' Bankole Omotoso Leadership 17(1) pp78-81 [on Pan-Africanism].

Paton, Alan "A Corridor Shut at Both Ends": Admonition and Impasse in Van der Post's In a Province and Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country' David Medalie English in Africa 25(2) pp93-110.

—' "Considered as a Social Record": A Reassessment of Cry, the Beloved Country' Andrew Foley English in Africa 25(2) pp63-92.

Petersen, Taliep 'Notions of Coloured Identities in Cape Flats Theatre: A Look at Taliep Petersen's District Six: The Musical' Kay Jaffer South African Theatre Journal 12(1/2) pp91-107.

Phosa, Mathews 'The Pain of Mathews Phosa and His Road to Recovery' Charlene Smith Leadership 17(4) pp88-92 [biographical].

Pienaar, Antoinette 'Krotoa Remembered: A Mother of Unity, a Mother of Sorrows?' Carli Goetzee pp112-19 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

Pillay, Kriben 'The Emperor's New Clothes: An Exercise in Virtual Reality: Reflections on the Colston Symposium: New Approaches to Theatre Studies and Performance Analysis ' Kriben Pillay South African Theatre Journal 12(1/2) pp185-90.

—` Finding an Identity: South African Indian Theatre in Spain' Kriben Pillay South African Theatre Journal 12(1/2) pp178-84.

Plaatje, Sol T. 'The Aesthetics of Liberation: Reflections from a Southern Perspective ' Michael Chapman Current Writing 10(1) pp1-16 [also refers to Nelson Mandela].

—` Chinua Achebe, History-Teller' Alain Severac Commonwealth Essays and Studies 21(1) pp19-30.

—` Plaatje Revisited' Catherine Woeber English in Africa 25(2) pp111-21 [reviews of works by and about Sol Plaatje].

—See also Writing South Africa in General Studies.

Pringle, Thomas 'Thomas Pringle's "Bushmen": Images in Flesh and Blood' Damian Shaw English in Africa 25(2) pp37-61.

—See also The Love of Books in General Studies.

Prinsloo, Koos 'A Man's World: White South African Gay Writing and the State of Emergency' Michiel Heyns pp108-22 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

Ramaphoko, Matome 'The Northern Sotho Folktale: Text, Context or Texture?' Phaka M. Makgamatha Voices 1 pp111-24.

Ramphele, Mamphela 'This Little Bit of Madness: Mamphela Ramphele on Being Black and Transgressive' Kimberley Yates and Pumla Gqola : Agenda 37 pp90-5 [interview].

— See also Negotiating the Past in General Studies.

Rive, Richard 'Langston Hughes and Richard Rive: Notes towards a Biography of Richard Rive' Shaun Viljoen English Studies in Africa 41(2) pp55-64.

Sachs, Albie 'Preparing Ourselves for Freedom: Paper Prepared for an ANC In-House Seminar on Culture in 1989' Albie Sachs pp239-48 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

Sachs, Wulf 'Performing Black Hamlet' Andreas Bertoldi and Susan Van Zyl Pretexts 7(1) pp113-27.

Sam, Agnes 'Asian Diasporas, Contending Identities and New Configurations: Stories by Agnes Sam and Olive Senior' Miki Flockemann English in Africa 25(1) pp71-86 [also refers to Jayapraga Reddy].

Schreiner, Olive 'Unicorns on Rocks: The Expressionism of Olive Schreiner' Peter Knox-Shaw English Studies in Africa 40(2) pp13-32 [1997; also refers to John Barrow].

— See also Writing South Africa in General Studies.

Serote, Mongane Wally 'Mongane Wally Serote, Interviewed by Rolf Solberg' pp180-186 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

Skotnes, Pippa 'Earth and Stone: Archaeology as Memory' Martin Hall pp180-200 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

—` Museums and the Reshaping of Memory' Patricia Davison pp143-60 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

—` Silence in My Father's House: Memory, Nationalism, and Narratives of the Body ' Steven Robins pp120-40 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

Slabolepszy, Paul 'Triangles of Race: Athol Fugard's "Master Harold" ... and the Boys and Paul Slabolepszy's Saturday Night at the Palace' Albert Wertheim Commonwealth Essays and Studies 20(1) pp86-95 [1997].

Smith, Pauline 'Postcolonial Pauline: Secret Fire: the 1913-14 Journal of Pauline Smith' Margaret Lenta Current Writing 10(2) pp121-34 [review; also refers to works by Pauline Smith].

Snowdon, Donald "Volcano Needing Constant Watching": South African White Labour and Socialist Culture 1900-1924' Johan van Wyk Journal of Literary Studies 14(1/2) pp116-35.

Sole, Kelwyn 'Letter' Kelwyn Sole New Coin 34(2) pp80-1 [response to criticism from Lionel Abrahams and Don Maclennan regarding the standard of poetry published in New Coin].

—` The Moment of Trek: Literary and Political Criticism in the South African English Periodical Press, 1941-1947' Corinne Sandwith Current Writing 10(1) pp17-38.

—` Writing South Africa' Kelwyn Sole Alternation 5(1) pp256-66 [review of Writing South Africa ed Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jolly; see entry in General Studies].

Sparks, Allister 'Myth and Reality in the Struggle against Apartheid' Martin Legassick Journal of Southern African Studies 24(2) pp443-58 [review of Tomorrow Is Another Country].

Strauss, Peter 'Poetry as Askesis: The Modernists' Search for Authenticity' Peter Strauss English Studies in Africa 41(1) pp41-50.

Tlali, Miriam Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality and Difference Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi xiii+188pp Indiana University Press ( Bloomington, Ind) [1997 ; refers to Bessie Head].

—` Miriam Tlali, Interviewed by Rosemary Jolly' pp141-148 in Writing South Africa [see entry in General Studies].

Tromp, Ian 'Aesthetes and Democrats: Reading the Critical Reception of The Heart in Exile and Sue Clark's The False Bay Cycle' Michael Titlestad Scrutiny 23(1) pp28-37 [also refers to Stephen Watson].

Van der Post, Laurens ' "A Corridor Shut at Both Ends": Admonition and Impasse in Van der Post's In a Province and Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country' David Medalie English in Africa 25(2) pp93-110.

Van Onselen, Charles 'Orality, Memory, and Social History in South Africa' Gary Minkley and Ciraj Rassool pp89-99 in Negotiating the Past [see entry in General Studies].

Van Wyk Louw, N.P. 'Silent Witnesses: The Books in the Private Library of N.P. van Wyk Louw' Elna Buys pp138-46 in The Love of Books [see entry in General Studies [ 1997].

Watson, Stephen ' "Here Be Dragons": Challenging "Liberal" Constructions of Protest Poetry' Priya Narismulu Alternation 5(1) pp191-214.

— 'On the Edge of Darkness: Stephen Watson and the Return of the Romantic Imagination' Dirk Klopper English in Africa 25(1) pp87-98.

Wylie, Dan 'Living Poetry: An Experience of Pedagogical Discovery' Dan Wylie English Studies in Africa 41(1) pp89-106.

— 'On the Mfecane Aftermath' Keith Breckenridge Alternation 4(2) pp247-9 [1997; review of The Mfecane Aftermath Carolyn Hamilton, which includes chapter by Dan Wylie].

The Book Door: The Newsletter of the South African Children's Book Forum: South African Section of IBBY (Grabouw); quarterly; first issue Summer 1998.

Kotaz: A Magazine of Contemporary South African Culture (Port Elizabeth); quarterly; first issue August 1998.

Turfwrite: A Creative Writing Journal (Sovenga); 2 times pa; first issue September 1998.

Voices: A Journal for Oral Studies (Durban); first issue January 1998.

Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing 14 ed Simon Lewis 82pp illus: special issue entitled New Writing from South and Southern Africa [includes work by Tatamkhulu Afrika, Dennis Brutus, Felix Mnthali, Mbulelo Mzamane, Kelwyn Sole, David Kerr, Dorian Haarhoff, Taban Lo Liyong, Daniel P Kunene, Fanuel Jongwe, Ingrid de Kok, Devi Sarinjeive, Michael Green, Ivan Vladislavic, Jeremy Cronin, Barry Feinberg, Marlene van Niekerk, Pinkie Mekgwe-Magocha, Melissa Steyn, Guy Butler, Wilma Stockenström, Karen Press, Stephen Gray, Steve Sharra, Jack Mapanje, Hoffman Aipira, Leon de Kock, Ian Tromp, Patrick Cullinan, Lionel Abrahams, Mzi Mahola, Joan Hambidge, Wally Willies, Thamsanqa D. Torto, Kobus Moolman, Alexander Moore and Athol Fugard; artwork by Cecil Skotnes, Peter Clarke and Gus Ferguson].

Journal of Literary Studies 14(1/2) ed Ina Gräbe: special issue entitled Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory ed Louise Viljoen 234pp.

Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication: special issue entitled South Africa in the Global Imaginary ed Leon de Kock.

Research in African Literatures 29(4) ed Abiola Irele: special issue entitled The African Diaspora and Its Origins ed Polly T. Rewt.