Worlding of the South African Novel

Jane Poyner is Senior Lecturer in World and Postcolonial Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Exeter, UK. She has published essays on South African literature and culture, including several books on J. M. Coetzee. She also writes on issues of environmental justice.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: “Spaces of Transition: the Worlding of the South African Novel”.- Chapter 2: Zakes Mda’s Black Intellectuals: Utopia and the Public Sphere in Ways of Dying and The Whale Caller.- Chapter 3: Fictions of Terror: the Worlding of South African Fiction.- Chapter 4: Theatres of Truth in the Post-Apartheid Novel.- Chapter 5: White (Dis)Possession in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf and Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor: Land, Race, Class.- Chapter 6: South African AIDS Narratives and the Question of Modernity.- Chapter 7: Environmental Racism and the Post-Apartheid Novel.- Chapter 8: Art, Visual Culture and the Work of Cultural Memory in Ivan Vladislavić’s Portrait with Keys (2006).