RACE, MISCEGNATION AND LITERATURE

IN SOUTH AFRICA

A Select list of references

by Conrad Reitz

Recommended Works of Fiction by South African Writers

(Personal favourites)

(* NOT in Leddy Library)

COETZEE, J.M. In the heart of the country (1977)

Life and times of Michael K. (1983)

Waiting for the barbarians (1981)

DIKOBE, Modikwe. The Marabi dance (1973)

GORDIMER, Nadine. Burger's daughter (1979)

July's people (1981)

A Sport of nature (1987)

LA GUMA, Alex. In the fog of the season's end (1972)

The Stone country (1972)

A Walk in the night and other stories (1968) .

*MILLIN, Sarah Gertrude. God's Stepchildren (1924)

MPHAHLELE, Esk'ia The Wanderers (1972)

NKOSI, Lewis. Mating birds (1986)

PATON, Alan. Cry the beloved country (1948)

Too late the phalarope (1953)

PLAATJE, Sol. Mhudi (1930

SCHREINER, Olive. Story of an African farm (1924)

SEROTE, Mongane. To every birth its blood (1981)

ZWELONKE, D.M. Robben island (1973)

History, Society and Race in South Africa

CHIPASULA, James C. [et al, eds.] South Africa's dilemmas in the post-apartheid era (1993)

DUBOW, Saul. Scientific racism in modern South Africa (1995)

FREDERICKSON, George M. White supremacy: a comparative study in American and South African history (1981)

HENRIQUES, Fernando. Children of conflict: a study of interracial sex and marriage (1975)

MURRAY, Martin J. Revolution deferred: the painful birth of post-apartheid South Africa (1994)

South African Culture and Literature

ASHCROFT, Bill [et al] The Empire writes back: theory and practice for post-colonial literatures (1989)

BARKER, Francis [et al, eds.] Colonial discourse/postcolonial theory (1994)

(Particularly contributions on How to read a "culturally different" book, Post-apartheid narratives, and Resistance theory/theorising resistance)

NDEBELE, Njabulo S. South African literary culture: rediscovery of the ordinary (1974)

SMIT, Johannes A. [et al] Rethinking South African literary history (1994)

*TRUMP, Martin [ed.] Rendering things visible: essays on South African literary

culture (1990)

(Particularly contributions on Building a national culture in South Africa, Revelation and reality: South African fiction in the 1980s,and Part of the struggle: Black writing and the South African liberation movement)

WATTS, Jane. Black writers from South Africa: towards a discourse of liberation (1989)