Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995 Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements and note on references
	South Africa, 1970-1996: a chronology
	Maps
1	Introduction	1
2	Interrogating silence: new possibilities faced by South African literature	14
3	I am dead: you cannot read: Andre Brink's On the Contrary	29
4	Endings and new beginning: South African fiction and transition	43
5	The post-apartheid sublime: rediscovering the extraordinary	57
6	Postmodernism and black writing in South Africa	75
7	Shame and identity: the case of the coloured in South Africa	91
8	A man's world: South African gay writing and the State of Emergency	108
9	The final safari: on nature, myth, and the literature of the Emergency	123
10	Interview	141
11	Speech and silence in the fictions of J. M. Coetzee	149
12	'Dialogue' and 'fulfilment' in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron	166
13	Interview	180
14	Inside out: Jeremy Cronin's lyrical politics	187
15	Spinning out the present: narrative, gender, and the politics of South African theatre	204
16	South African theatre in the United States: the allure of the familiar and of the exotic	221
17	Preparing ourselves for freedom	239
18	Challenges facing theatre practitioners in the new South Africa	249
19	Current trends in Theatre for Development in South Africa	257
	Select bibliography: South African literary writing in English, 1970-1995	265
	Index	277