South African Literary Studies A Safundi Reader on Genre, Method, and Ideas, 1999-2024

Introduction
Christopher J. Lee

Section I. Transnational Comparisons

1. Growing Up with Maya Angelou and Sindiwe Magona: A Comparison (2001)

Siphokazi Koyana & Rosemary Gray

2. Oprah's Paton, or South Africa and the Globalization of Suffering (2006)

Rita Barnard

3. Theory and Intertextuality: Reading Zora Neale Hurston and Bessie Head (2008)

Desiree Lewis

4. South Africa, the USA, and the Globalization of Truth and Reconciliation: Itinerant Mourning in Zakes Mda's Cion (2009)

Kerry Bystrom

Section II. South African Literatures

5. Neither History nor Freedom Will Absolve Us: On the Ethical Dimensions of the Poetry of Lesego Rampolokeng (2011)

Khwezi Mkhize

6. Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut and the Dialectics of Race in South Africa: Interrogating Images of Whiteness and Blackness in Black Literature and Culture (2013)

Aretha Phiri

7. Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the South African Township (2013)

Megan Jones

8. Black music and pan-African solidarity in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s poetry (2017)

Uhuru Portia Phalafala

9. Metamorphosis of Xhosa masculinity in Thando Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man (2020)

Nonhlanhla Dlamini

Section III. Interviews

10. An Interview with Chris Abani (2009)

Amanda Aycock

11. An Interview with Mark Behr (2011)

Andrew van der Vlies

12. Reflection, understanding, and empathy: a conversation between Carol-Ann Davids and Patrick Flanery (2017)

Carol-Ann Davids and Patrick Flanery

Section IV. Non-Fiction

13. “In a Country where You couldn’t Make this Shit up”?: Literary Non‐Fiction in South Africa (2012)

Hedley Twidle

14. Non‐Fiction Booms, North and South: A Transatlantic Perspective (2012)

Rob Nixon

15. Writing Spaces: Fiction and Non-Fiction in South Africa (2012)

Stephen Clingman

Section V. White Writing

16. Accounting for Language: Narrative Ethics and Economic Reparations in Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull
Dalgleish Chew

17. Spectacles of Dystopia: Lauren Beukes and the Geopolitics of Digital Space (2015)
Phoenix Alexander

18. A tree full of hillbillies: grotesque humor in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf (2020)

Molly Abel Travis

Section VI. Spaces and Environments

19. Properties of Whiteness: (Post)Apartheid Geographies in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light (2011)
Stéphane Robolin

20. Johannesburg Sighted: TJ/Double Negative and the Temporality of the Image/Text (2015)

Stefan Helgesson

21. Coetzee's Stones: Dusklands and the nonhuman witness (2018)
Daniel Williams

Section VII. Questions of World Literature

22. Cold War and Hot Translation (2007)

Monica Popescu

23. The Urge to Nowhere: Wicomb and Cosmopolitanism (2011)

Abdulrazak Gurnah

24. You Are Where You Aren’t: Mark Behr and the Not-Quite-Global Novel (2013)

Jeanne-Marie Jackson

25. “The island is not a story in itself”: apartheid’s world literature (2018)

Ashleigh Harris

Biography

Christopher J. Lee has published eleven books, including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021), and Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966-1985 (2024). He is currently the Lead Editor of Safundi.

Andrew Offenburger is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, USA. He is author of Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917 (Yale University Press, 2019) and is co-editor with Patricia Nelson Limerick on the forthcoming Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond (University of Nebraska Press). He is the Founding Editor of Safundi.