The Short Story in South Africa

This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.

Autorentext

Rebecca Fasselt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Corinne Sandwith is Professor of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: The short story in South Africa new trends and perspectives 2. Translated from the dead: The legibility of violence in Ivan Vladislavi's 101 Detectives 3. Coloured by history, shaped otherwise: A "decolonial" reading of Zoë Wicomb 4. Hyper-compression and the rise of the deep surface: Flash fiction in "post-transitional" South Africa 5. Queer temporalities in two short stories by Makhosazana Xaba: The afterlife of Can Themba's "The Suit" 6. Queerying examples of contemporary South African short fiction 7. Therianthropic power in Mohale Mashigo's speculative short fiction 8. Navigating the spectacular in queer African erotic short fiction 9. Imagining Africa's futures in two Caine Prize-winning stories: Henrietta Rose-Innes's "Poison" and NoViolet Bulawayo's "Hitting Budapest" 10. On reading, writing and being read: Journeying with the short story 11. Short stories born from the womb of the past 12. "Concrete fragments": An interview with Henrietta Rose-Innes 13. LongStorySHORT: Decolonising the reading landscape A conversation with Kgauhelo Dube 14. "My stories will remain written the way I talk": A conversation with Niq Mhlongo