The travelling salesman: A tribute to K Sello Duiker 1974-2005

The young South African writer K. Sello Duiker (1974-2005) committed suicide on 19 January 2005. He had been suffering from a bi-polar disorder. He had written two brilliant novels: 'Thirteen Cents' (2000) about child abuse in wealthy, sophisticated Cape Town) and 'The Quiet Violence of Dreams' (2001) about male sexual abuse and violence in present-day South Africa. This obituary pays tribute to his brief life and his greatness as a writer

Within loving memory of the century

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Rewriting Modernity

The question of claiming agency for marginalized peoples, and describing and analyzing the nature of this agency and subjectivity, has been at the heart of the postcolonial project. This apparently simple objective is complicated by two major factors that strike at the root of the very possibility of such a project. The first is the fact that one of the more enduring legacies of the imperialist project was the textual obliteration of the voice of the Other