SLiPStellenbosch Literary Project Reviews
Tag Archives: Post-Apartheid
Shadow Fires.
Wamuwi Mbao reviews this poetry collection, which spans the post-Apartheid period 1996-2013.
Accounting for us
Imraan Coovadia’s fifth novel, Tales of the Metric System, confirms his status as a leading South African writer, showing that he can traverse topographies of class, race and gender in a way few other local writers can, writes Leon de Kock.
The time of the twisted guts
What happens to an ethics of seeing in a globally mediated world? This is one of the questions raised in Nedine Moonsamy’s review of Ishtiyak Shukri’s ‘I see you’.
Of home, and October
Zoë Wicomb’s ‘October’ takes the protagonist back to her Namaqualand hometown to confront old secrets. Read Chantelle Gray van Heerden’s review here.
Shakespeare and the politics of identity in South Africa
Chris Thurman reviews Natasha Distiller’s Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On Post-Apartheid South African Culture, and concludes that this is a book that can and should inform all those who engage with Shakespeare’s work in South Africa.
