Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to
the hopes that attended the birth of the'new'nation in 1994, and to the inevitable …

Taking its cue from recent scholarship de-linking the idea of “modernity” from the idea of “the
West”, this article advocates the notion of “world literature” as the body of literature that has …

Despite the end of white minority rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy,
Johannesburg remains haunted by its tortured history of racial segregation and burdened by …

Starting from a reading of Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor, this article examines the
changing nature of social space in South Africa since 1994 as reflected in recent writing by …

In this dissertation,“'n Geokrities-vergelykende analise van Afrikaans-en Engelstalige
stedelike romans”(“A geocritical comparative analysis of Afrikaans and English urban …

This thesis adopts a contrapuntal reading of Johannesburg through the work of Ivan
Vladislavić. While it evaluates the dominant and pervasive readings of the city in current and …

Wyciagając wnioski z ostatnich badań, oddzielających ideę „nowoczesności” od idei
„Zachodu”, artykuł broni pojęcia „literatury światowej” jako korpusu, który w ciągu ostatnich …

Our cultural values and socio-political perspectives are reflected in our material
environment; when this environment is subjected to drastic change, the effects on these …

This article focusses on three of Ivan Vladislavić's novels as well as several essays and
seeks to demonstrate that the navigations which they depict between the divided parts of …

In the 2000s, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JCL) continued to provide a forum
for the expansion, layering and critical self-examination of the transnational Anglophone …