Monthly Archives: April 2013
Performance and interpellation of an unhealthy variety
Unconvinced by Equal Education’s panel discussion on schools in the Eastern Cape, Kavish Chetty considers what these kind of events tell us about the state of our laughable bourgeoisie.
The shining girl of SA lit
Bibi Burger attends the launch of The Shining Girls, and finds out why ‘The Beukes’ is such a big deal.
Dancing in Other Words
Dancing in Other Words programme announcement. Download the PDF version of this programme here. Poetry and the reflections of award‐winning international literary figures, political dissidents, activists and a Nobel Prize frontrunner, will fill the Spier Manor House and Old Wine […]
Daniel Herwitz – Heritage, Culture and Politics in the Postcolony
Launch of Heritage, Culture and Politics in the Postcolony by Daniel Herwitz, 9 April 2013, The Book Lounge, Cape Town. KAVISH CHETTY Daniel Herwitz – were he not assured a position in academia – would make a soothingly effective reader of […]
International poetry in conversation at Spier
Dancing in Other Words programme announcement. Download the PDF version of this programme here. Poetry and the reflections of award‐winning international literary figures, political dissidents, activists and a Nobel Prize frontrunner, will fill the Spier Manor House and Old Wine […]
Vrot princesses and slicing blades
Caine Prize-winning writer, Mary Watson, discusses her first novel, a dark psychological thriller.
What sort of thing is literature?
Derek Attridge – What sort of thing is literature by Slipnet on Mixcloud