The term 'Gothic'has rarely been brought to bear on contemporary South African fictions,
appearing too fanciful for the often overtly political writing of apartheid and post-apartheid …

This article attempts to homogenize gender theory and genre studies in order to build a
suitable lens for analyses of Beukes' texts. The central argument posits two of her novels …

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

The number of science fiction (SF) publications written by African authors skyrocketed in the
new millennium and, alongside it, a debate on the form and sociological functions of that …

This article explores the image of the queer cyborg in two works of speculative fiction about
South Africa, Lauren Beukes's Moxyland (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2008) and Nicky …

This article re-reads Lauren Beukes's debut novel Moxyland (2008) through an intermedial
lens, focusing on the text's multiple" nested" references to images, as well as techniques of" …

This thesis examines the landscape of African Science Fiction (ASF) as a genre of African
Literature (AL) from the lens of technology and Africanfuturism. African literature is often …

Dystopias have frequently been explored in literature to better understand the present and
imagine the effects of certain elements of society if taken to a logical extreme. In this way …

Lauren Beukes, For the Mercy of Water (2012) by Karen Jayes, and Selling LipService
(2017) by Tammy Baikie. All three of these texts have female focalisers whose experiences …