South African Literary Studies

Christopher J. Lee has published eleven books, including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021), and Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966-1985 (2024). He is currently the Lead Editor of Safundi.Andrew Offenburger is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, USA. He is author of Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917 (Yale University Press, 2019) and is co-editor with Patricia Nelson Limerick on the forthcoming Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond (University of Nebraska Press). He is the Founding Editor of Safundi.

• Introduction 1. Growing Up with Maya Angelou and Sindiwe Magona: A Comparison (2001) 2. Oprah's Paton, or south Africa and the Globalization of Suffering (2006) 3. Theory and Intertextuality: Reading Zora Neale Hurston and Bessie Head (2008) 4. South Africa, the USA, and the Globalization of Truth and Reconciliation: Itinerant Mourning in Zakes Mda's Cion (2009) 5. Neither History nor Freedom Will Absolve Us: On the Ethical Dimensions of the Poetry of Lesego Rampolokeng (2011) 6. Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut and the Dialectics of Race in South Africa: Interrogating Images of Whiteness and Blackness in Black Literature and Culture (2013) 7. Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the South African Township (2013) 8. Black music and pan-African solidarity in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s poetry (2017) 9. Metamorphosis of Xhosa masculinity in Thando Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man (2020) 10. An Interview with Chris Abani (2009) 11. An Interview with Mark Behr (2011) 12. Reflection, understanding, and empathy: a conversation between Carol-Ann Davids and Patrick Flanery (2017) 13. “In a Country where You couldn’t Make this Shit up”?: Literary Non‐Fiction in South Africa (2012) 14. Non‐Fiction Booms, North and South: A Transatlantic Perspective (2012) 15. Writing Spaces: Fiction and Non-Fiction in South Africa (2012) 16. Accounting for Language: Narrative Ethics and Economic Reparations in Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull 17. Spectacles of Dystopia: Lauren Beukes and the Geopolitics of Digital Space 18. A tree full of hillbillies: grotesque humor in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf (2020) 19. Properties of Whiteness: (Post)Apartheid Geographies in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light 20. Johannesburg Sighted: TJ/Double Negative and the Temporality of the Image/Text (2015) 21. Coetzee's Stones: Dusklands and the nonhuman witness 22. Cold War and Hot Translation (2007) 23. The Urge to Nowhere: Wicomb and Cosmopolitanism (2011) 24. You Are Where You Aren’t: Mark Behr and the Not-Quite-Global Novel (2013) 25. “The island is not a story in itself”: apartheid’s world literature (2018)