143264 VO Southern African Literatures (2025S)

Primary Readings (preliminary selection):
Peter Abrahams, Mine Boy (1946),
Taylor and Kentridge, Ubu and The Truth Commission (1997)
Kani, Nshona, and Fugard, The Island (1973)
Antjie Krog, Country of my Skull (1998)
Steve Biko, I Write What I Like (1978)
J.M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K (1983)
Mongane Wally Serote, “For Don M. – Banned” (1973)
Nadine Gordimer, tba
K. Sello Duiker, Thirteen Cents (2000)
Yvette Christiansë, Unconfessed (2006)
Zoë Wicomb, “You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town” (1987)
Njabulo Ndebele, “The Prophetess” (1983)
--, Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South African Literature and Culture (1991)
Koleka Putuma “Water”, In Collective Amnesia (2017)
Haji Mohamed Dawjee, Sorry, Not Sorry (2018)
Ameera Conrad, The Fall: All Rhodes Lead to Decolonisation (2017)
Zakes Mda, The Heart of Redness (2000)
Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing (1950),
Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning (1998), The Stone Virgins, (2002)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tambudzai Trilogy,
NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names (2013),
Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger (1978)
Chenjerai Hove, tba
Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), A Question of Power (1973),
Rémy Ngamije, “Granddaughter of the Octopus”
Namwali Serpell, Old Drift (2019)
Ntsika Kota, “and the earth drank deep”
Mia Coutu, tba
Paulina Chiziane, tba

Secondary Literature (selection):
Chapman, Michael. 2003. Southern African Literatures. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.
Wessels, Michael. 2010. Bushmen Letters: Interpreting Xam Narratives. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
Daymond M.J., et al, eds. 2003. Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region. The Woman Writing Africa Project: Volume 1. New York: Feminist Press.
Attwell, David, and Derek Attridge, eds. 2012. The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Irele, F. Abiola, and Simon Gikandi, eds. 2000. The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Irele, F. Abiola, and Simon Gikandi, eds. 2000. The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. Volume 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.