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The collection delves into crucial themes and debates in South African literature, addressing the innovative aesthetics of Black poetry, the political complexities of "white writing," non-fiction's significance, and the role of geography in South Africa's regional fiction. It particularly examines how literary works have engaged with the country's evolving post-apartheid identity and its place in global contexts.
South African Literary Studies: A Safundi Reader on Genre, Method, and Ideas, 1999-2024 marks the culminating volume in a series celebrating Safundi's twenty-fifth anniversary. This comprehensive collection showcases the journal's evolution from its initial focus on US-South African comparative histories to its embrace of a wider range of interdisciplinary and literary studies. Divided into seven sections, this volume explores a diverse set of literary approaches, including transnational comparisons featuring influential figures like Maya Angelou, Alan Paton, Zora Neale Hurston, and Bessie Head. It further addresses the works of poets and novelists who have shaped South African literature, including Lesego Rampolokeng, Keorapetse Kgositsile, and J. M. Coetzee, while also offering illuminating interviews with writers such as Chris Abani, C. A. Davids, and Mark Behr.
Through its exploration of various genres, methods, and ideas, this volume retains Safundi's founding spirit of examining comparative and transnational connections while also demonstrating how literary criticism has become indispensable in defining South African culture and identity after apartheid.
Contents
Introduction 1. Growing Up with Maya Angelou and Sindiwe Magona: A Comparison (2001) 2. Oprah's Paton, or south Africa and the Globalization of Suffering (2006) 3. Theory and Intertextuality: Reading Zora Neale Hurston and Bessie Head (2008) 4. South Africa, the USA, and the Globalization of Truth and Reconciliation: Itinerant Mourning in Zakes Mda's Cion (2009) 5. Neither History nor Freedom Will Absolve Us: On the Ethical Dimensions of the Poetry of Lesego Rampolokeng (2011) 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) 7. Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the South African Township (2013) 8. Black music and pan-African solidarity in Keorapetse Kgositsile's poetry (2017) 9. Metamorphosis of Xhosa masculinity in Thando Mgqolozana's A Man Who is Not a Man (2020) 10. An Interview with Chris Abani (2009) 11. An Interview with Mark Behr (2011) 12. Reflection, understanding, and empathy: a conversation between Carol-Ann Davids and Patrick Flanery (2017) 13. "In a Country where You couldn't Make this Shit up"?: Literary Non-Fiction in South Africa (2012) 14. Non-Fiction Booms, North and South: A Transatlantic Perspective (2012) 15. Writing Spaces: Fiction and Non-Fiction in South Africa (2012) 16. Accounting for Language: Narrative Ethics and Economic Reparations in Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull 17. Spectacles of Dystopia: Lauren Beukes and the Geopolitics of Digital Space 18. A tree full of hillbillies: grotesque humor in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf (2020) 19. Properties of Whiteness: (Post)Apartheid Geographies in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light 20. Johannesburg Sighted: TJ/Double Negative and the Temporality of the Image/Text (2015) 21. Coetzee's Stones: Dusklands and the nonhuman witness 22. Cold War and Hot Translation (2007) 23. The Urge to Nowhere: Wicomb and Cosmopolitanism (2011) 24. You Are Where You Aren't: Mark Behr and the Not-Quite-Global Novel (2013) 25. "The island is not a story in itself": apartheid's world literature (2018)
