Alan Paton is known chiefly for his novels, biographies, autobiographies and political writings. His short stories have received relatively little attention. At their best, however, they are finely wrought and deeply ...

This article begins by pointing to the dearth of critical attention to Ben Okri’s novel, In Arcadia ([2002] 2003. London: Phoenix). Examples of the sparse but dismissive critical reviews of this novel are given, showing ...

The boundaries of ‘literature’ have always been blurred, and oratory has always lurked on the fringe. In ‘literature’ of a narrower definition, Milton’s Satan, ‘like some huge ammiral’, looms large as an imaginative creation. ...

Conzalo’s utopia is seen to be a chimera, something impossible to achieve, something which will be in no place, the meaning of utopia. The opposite of this is, of course, ‘dystopia’, with its connotation of disorder, ...

It is a truism that learners in the foundation phase learn to read while those in the intermediate phase read to learn. However, this paper examines research indicating that a high percentage of learners never manage the ...

When African nationalist writers of the mid-twentieth century refer to Christianity they almost invariably represent it as being implicated in colonialism. Writers like Beti and Ngugi evidence this, and Ngugi in particular ...

In contrast to the vast array of books which deal with the craft of acting and stagemanagement, there seem to be far fewer books which attempt to describe what directors do. The most common contemporary approach seems ...

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This article addresses issues of the mnemonic space of the literature classroom by interrogating a classic text of African women’s writing, Tsitsi Dangaremnga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) for the ways it speaks about ...

Deon Meyer's fifth crime novel, Infanta (2004), appears inherently South African, both as regards a clearly recognisable physical environment and as social, political and moral landscape. However, it also stands in a long ...