Abstract
This collection of essays by one of South Africa's most admired postcolonial critics collects a range of discrepant engagements with literary texts as diverse as Hendrik's Khoisan Dwaalstories (retold by Eugene Marais, and originally published in 1921 in Huisgenoot), the eruptive postmodern ruminations of Dambudzo Marechera, the literary-archival projects of A.C. Jordan, and novels by Bessie Head, Wole Soyinka, Unity Dow, Damon Galgut, Mandla Langa, Mongane Serote and Nuruddin Farah. The essays - without exception - are persuasive, each combining a close reading of the intersection of text and context in order to demonstrate some of the ways in which African writers lay claim to a shareable truth and sphere of experience and to a border-crossing aesthetic power (x).
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