Writing South Africa
Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995

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South Africa 1970–95: a chronology
1. Introduction Rosemary Jolley and Derek Attridge
2. Interrogating silence: new possibilities faced by South African literature André Brink
3. I am dead: you cannot read: André Brink's On the Contrary Peter Horn
4. Endings and new beginnings: South African fiction in translation Elleke Boehmer
5. The post-apartheid sublime: rediscovering the extraordinary Graham Pechey
6. Postmodernism and black writing in South Africa Lewis Nkosi
7. Shame and identity: the case of the coloured in South Africa Zoë Wicomb
8. A man's world: South African gay writing and the state of emergency Michiel Heyns
9. The final safari: on nature, myth and the literature of the Emergency Rita Barnard
10. Interview with Miriam Tlali, interviewed by Rosemary Jolly
11. Speech and silence in the fictions of J. M. Coetzee Benita Parry
12. 'Dialogue' and 'fulfilment' in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron David Attwell
13. Interview with Mongone Wally Serote, interviewed by Rolf Solberg
14. Inside out: Jeremy Cronin's lyrical politics Brian Macaskill
15. Spinning out the present: narrative, gender, and the politics of South African theatre Dennis Walder
16. South African theatre in the United States: the allure of the familiar and the exotic Jeanne Colleran
Position Papers:
17. Preparing ourselves for freedom Albie Sachs
18. Challenges facing theatre practitioners in the new South Africa Maishe Maponya
19. Current trends in theatre for development in South Africa Zakes Mda
20. A select bibliography of South African literary writing in English, 1970–95
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