Primary texts will be selected from recent works of prose, poetry, and drama.

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1 Criticism and Culture MPhil, Michaelmas 2012 Writing and Remembering in South Africa, 1994-present. This course will provide a critical introduction to contemporary issues in South African literature and culture. The focus will be on the period following the country s first democratic elections, and specifically on the question of change. What has changed in the wake of Apartheid s dismantling? What hasn t changed? How do literature and other forms of cultural production relate to these questions? No prior knowledge is required, but students will be expected to read broadly in South African history, politics and literature. Many of the topics to be discussed will open out onto broader issues in postcolonialism and globalisation studies. Seminar topics will be selected from the following (subject to confirmation): Transition, Reconciliation, Tradition, Modernity, Development, Disease, Crime Fiction and the Law, Global Apartheid, the Cultural Logic of Neoliberalism. Primary texts will be selected from recent works of prose, poetry, and drama. Please contact me (cgw26@cam.ac.uk) if you would like advice ahead of the introductory session on Tuesday October 9 th at 2pm in The Faculty of English, room TR26. Bibliography Poetry, Prose, Drama Berold, Rob, ed. It All Begins: Poems from Postliberation South Africa. Pietermaritzburg, Gecko, Bailey, Brett. The Plays of Miracle and Wonder. Cape Town: Double Storey, Behr, Mark. The Smell of Apples. South Africa: Queillerie, 1993 Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace. London: Secker & Warburg, Elizabeth Costello. London : Secker & Warburg, Slow Man. London: Secker & Warburg, Diary of a Bad Year. London: Harvill Secker, Krog, Antjie. The Stars Say 'Tsau'. Cape Town: Kwela Books, Watson, Stephen. Return of the Moon: Versions from the /Xam. Cape Town: Carrefour, Skotnes, Pippa. Claim to the country : the archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek Johannesburg: Jacana; Athens : Ohio University Press, Heyns, Michiel. The children s day. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, The Reluctant Passenger. Jonathan Ball, The Typewriter s Tale. Johannesburg : Jonathan Ball, Bodies Politic. Jonathan Ball, 2008 Cronin, Jeremy. Inside and Out: Poems from Inside and Even the Dead. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, Dangor, Achmat. Bitter Fruit. Cape Town : Kwela Books, De Kok, Ingrid. Seasonal Fires: New And Selected Poems. Seven Stories Press, Duiker, K Sello. Thirteen Cents. Cape Twon, David Philip, The Quiet Violence of Dreams. Cape Town, David Philip, 2000

2 Galgut, Damon. The Good Doctor. London: Atlantic, Gordimer, Nadine. The House Gun. London: Bloomsbury, The Pickup. London: Bloomsbury, Get a Life. London: Bloomsbury, Loot: And Other Stories. London: Bloomsbury, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. London: Bloomsbury, Landsman, Anne The Devil s Chimney. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. Mda, Zakes. Ways of Dying. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, The Heart of Redness. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, The Madonna of Excelsior. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, The Whale Caller. London: Viking, Cion. New York: Picador, Mpe, Phaswane. Welcome to our Hillbrow. Pietermaritzburg: Univeristy of Natal Press, Rampolokeng, Lesego. Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria. Grahamstown: Deep South, Van Heerden, Etienne. The Long Silence of Mario Salviati. London: Sceptre, Van Niekerk, Marlene. Triomf. Trans. Leon de Kock. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, The Way of the Women. Trans Michiel Heyns. London: Little and Brown, Vladislavić, Ivan. Propaganda by Monuments & Other Stories. Cape Town: David Philip, Portrait with Keys: Joburg & What-What. Roggebaai: Umuzi, The Restless Supermarket. David Philip, The Exploded View. Johannesburg: Random House, History Thompson, Leonard. A History of South Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press, Giliomee, Hermann. The Afrikaners: Biography of a People. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Beinart, William and Saul Dubow. Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth-century South Africa. London: Routledge, Posel, Deborah. The Making of Apartheid, : Conflict and Compromise Oxford: Clarendon Press, Web resources The TRC website, including links to transcripts of the hearings: The Centre for Civil Society Independent Media Centre

3 Mail and Guardian Online African National Congress Website Literary and Cultural Criticism Asmal, Kader, Louise Asmal & Ronald Suresh Roberts. Reconciliation through Truth: A reckoning of Apartheid s Criminal Governance. Cape Town: David Philip; Oxford: James Currey, Attridge, Derek and Rosemary Jolly. Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid and Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Attridge, Derek. J.M. Coetzee & the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Attwell, David. J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing. Berkeley: University of California Press, Barnard, Rita. Apartheid and beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Biko, Steve. I Write What I Like: A Selection of his Writings. Ed. Aelred Stubbs. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Blumberg, M and D Walder, eds. South African Theatre as/and Intervention. Amsterdam: Rodopi, Bond, Patrick. Elite Transition: from Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa. London: Pluto, Coetzee, JM. Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews. Ed. David Attwell. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, Stranger shores: Essays, London: Secker & Warburg, Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Dubow, Saul. A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, Oxford : Oxford University Press, Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, The African National Congress. Stroud: Sutton, Edelstein, Jillian. Truth & lies : stories from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. London: Granta, 2001.

4 Gevisser, Mark. Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla. A Human Being Died That Night: Confronting Apartheid's Chief Killer. New Africa Books, Gordimer, Nadine. The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places. Ed Stephen Clingman. London: Cape, Gumede, William Mervin. Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC. Cape Town: Zebra Press, Hofmeyr, Isabel. We spend our years as a tale that is told : Oral Historical Narrative in a South African chiefdom. London: James Currey, Judin, Hilton and Ivan Vladislavić. Blank : Architecture, Apartheid and After. Cape Town: David Philip; Rotterdam: NAi, Krog, Antjie. Country of my Skull. Johannesburg : Random House, Mandela, Nelson. Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. London: Abacus, Marks, Shula. The Tradition of Non-Racism in South Africa. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Mbeki, Thabo Africa Define Yourself. Cape Town : Tafelberg, Mbeki, Thabo. Africa: The Time has Come (selected speeches). Cape Town: Tafelberg: Mafube, Parry, Benita. Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique. London: Routledge, Pechey, Graham. Post-Apartheid Narratives in colonial discourse/postcolonial theory. Eds Barker, Francis; Hulme, Peter; Iverson, Margaret. Manchester: Manchester UP, Ramphele, Mamphela. Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, Sanders, Mark. Complicities: the Intellectual and Apartheid. London: Duke University Press, Shava, Piniel Viriri. A People s Voice: Black South African writing in the Twentieth Century. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, Sparks, Allister. Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa. London: Profile, 2003.

5 Steinberg, Jonny. Midlands: A Very South African Murder. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, Three Letter Plague. London: Simon & Schuster, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report. 5 volumes. London: Macmillan, Tutu, Desmond. The Rainbow People of God. Cape Town: Double Storey, Wilson, Richard. The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-apartheid State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.