Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup

Nadine Gordimer’s most recent novel, The Pickup, is a novel that has its place in what Gordimer has called a post-apartheid ‘literature of transition’, taking as its subject-matter the issues of displacement, economic exile and migration

Writing Women: Gender, Identity and Representation in Coonardoo and A Kindness Cup

The paper explores the writing a re-presentation of what has been termed, variously, the settler woman, the pioneer woman and the white woman with reference to Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo and Thea Astley's A Kindness Cup

« White » South African Writing and the Politics of Resistance

Cet article s’intéresse à un élément liminal de la littérature africaine anglophone : la littérature et la critique sud-africaines «blanches ». Nombreux de ces écrits sont évalués en fonction de leur contribution à la «résistance ». La «résistance blanche » - notion complexe - est une question qui occupe une place effective mais difficilement définissable dans les discours de pouvoir au seuil de la culture de l’« après-apartheid ». Cet article explore la problématique des écrits de la « résistance blanche » à partir de ces « seuils critiques ».Kossew Sue. « White » South African Writing and the Politics of Resistance. In: Anglophonia/Caliban, n°7, 2000. Seuils / Thresholds. Les littératures africaines anglophones / Anglophone African literatures pp. 179-188

Review of 'Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds' edited by Sue Sheridan and Paul Genoni.

Review of 'Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds' edited by Sue Sheridan and Paul Genoni

Giving Voice: Narrating silence, history and memory in André Brink’s The Other Side of Silence and Before I Forget

This essay examines André P. Brink's two most recent novels, The Other Side of Silence (2002) and Before I Forget (2004), in terms of their voicing of silence and the rewriting of history and memory. Each has a theme familiar to Brink's readers - an historical story of colonial violence and violation avenged; and the recounting by an older writer of his "last love", respectively - and each is mediated by a male narrator. Both narrators, though, draw attention to the problems associated with this reconstructive and potentially appropriative storytelling. These texts thereby enact, in a more complex way than many of Brink's previous novels, the intersections of narrative, history and memory

Review of 'Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds' edited by Sue Sheridan and Paul Genoni.

Review of 'Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds' edited by Sue Sheridan and Paul Genoni

Giving Voice: Narrating silence, history and memory in André Brink\'s The Other Side of Silence and Before I Forget

This essay examines André Brink's two most recent novels, The Other Side of Silence (2002) and Before I Forget (2004), in terms of their voicing of silence and the rewriting of history and memory. Each has a theme familiar to Brink's readers – an historical story of colonial violence and violation avenged; and the recounting by an older writer of his “last love”, respectively – and each is mediated by a male narrator. Both narrators, though, draw attention to the problems associated with this reconstructive and potentially appropriative storytelling. These texts thereby enact, in a more complex way than many of Brink's previous novels, the intersections of narrative, history and memory. Key Words: André Brink, The Other Side of Silence, Before I Forget, silence, history memory. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Vol. 42(1) 2005: 134-14