1st Edition

Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 Interviews with Selected Contemporary South African Authors

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

This anthology comprises of interviews with contemporary South African authors, offering vignettes of their lives and summaries of their works. In curating this book, Danyela Demir and Olivier Moreillon step beyond pure literary theory and analysis. They welcome the authors to speak and assess the literary panorama in which they live and co-create. However, Demir and Moreillon also trace... Read more

Acknowledgements

Reflecting on Anglophone (Post)Apartheid Literature beyond 2000: A World-Literary Perspective

In Conversation with Mariam Akabor

In Conversation with Sifiso Mzobe

In Conversation with Fred Khumalo

In Conversation with Futhi Ntshingila

In Conversation with Niq Mhlongo

In Conversation with Zukiswa Wanner

In Conversation with Nthikeng Mohlele

In Conversation with Mohale Mashigo

In Conversation with Lauren Beukes

In Conversation with Charlie Human

In Conversation with Yewande Omotoso

In Conversation with Andrew Salomon

In Conversation with Imraan Coovadia

In Conversation with Fred Strydom

Some Closing Remarks on World-Literature and the Broadening of ‘South Africanness’ in (Post)Apartheid

Literature beyond 2000

Index

Biography

Danyela Dimakatso Demir is NRF post-doctoral fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College) and the author of Reading Loss: Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels (2019).

Olivier Moreillon is research associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Reading the Post-Apartheid City: Durbanite and Capetonian Literary Topographies in Selected Texts Beyond 2000 (2019) and the co-editor of Cities in Flux: Metropolitan Spaces in South African Literary and Visual Texts (2017).