On Graham Pechey’s In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa, with an Appendix by Laura Pechey

Abstract

This introduction to the life and work of Graham Pechey outlines and assesses his career as a literary critic and theorist, tracing his early attraction to Marxism, the importance of Mikhail Bakhtin to his developing interests, his engagement with South African culture and politics, his embrace of Christianity, and his later fascination with the minutiae of the English language in its literary uses. A biographical note is appended.