The Cambridge History of South African Literature

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xviii

• Introduction by David Attwell and Derek Attridge
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• pp. 1-14

PART I - ORATURES, ORAL HISTORIES, ORIGINS

• 1 - ‘The Bushmen's Letters’: |Xam narratives of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection and their afterlives by Hedley Twidle
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• pp. 15-41

• 2 - A contextual analysis of Xhosa iimbongi and their izibongo by Russell H. Kaschula
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• pp. 42-59

• 3 - ‘I sing of the woes of my travels’: the lifela of Lesotho by Nhlanhla Maake
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• pp. 60-76

• 4 - Praise, politics, performance: from Zulu izibongo to the Zionists by Mbongiseni Buthelezi
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• pp. 77-94

• 5 - IsiNdebele, siSwati, Northern Sotho, Tshivenda and Xitsonga oral culture by Manie Groenewald and Mokgale Makgopa
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• pp. 95-112

PART II - EXPLORATION, EARLY MODERNITY AND ENLIGHTENMENT AT THE CAPE, 1488–1820

• 6 - Shades of Adamastor: the legacy of The Lusiads by Malvern van Wyk Smith
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• pp. 113-137

• 7 - In the archive: records of the Dutch settlement and the contemporary novel by Carli Coetzee
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• pp. 138-157

• 8 - Eighteenth-century natural history, travel writing and South African literary historiography by Ian Glenn
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• pp. 158-180

PART III - EMPIRE, RESISTANCE AND NATIONAL BEGINNINGS, 1820–1910

• 9 - Writing settlement and empire: the Cape after 1820 by Matthew Shum
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• pp. 181-203

• 10 - The mission presses and the rise of black journalism by Catherine Woeber
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• pp. 204-225

• 11 - The imperial romance by Laura Chrisman
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• pp. 226-245

• 12 - Perspectives on the South AfricanWar by Elleke Boehmer
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• pp. 246-261

• 13 - The beginnings of Afrikaans literature by H. P. van Coller
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• pp. 262-286

PART IV - MODERNISM AND TRANSNATIONAL CULTURE, 1910–1948

• 14 - Black writers and the historical novel: 1907–1948 by Bhekizizwe Peterson
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• pp. 287-307

• 15 - The Dertigers and the plaasroman: two brief perspectives on Afrikaans literature by Gerrit Olivier
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• pp. 308-324

• 16 - New African modernity and the New African movement by Ntongela Masilela
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• pp. 325-338

• 17 - Refracted modernisms: Roy Campbell, Herbert Dhlomo, N. P. van Wyk Louw by Tony Voss
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• pp. 339-359

• 18 - The metropolitan and the local: Douglas Blackburn, Pauline Smith, William Plomer, Herman Charles Bosman by Craig Mackenzie
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• pp. 360-380

PART V - APARTHEID AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1948 TO THE PRESENT

• 19 - The fabulous fifties: short fiction in English by Dorothy Driver
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• pp. 381-409

• 20 - Writing in exile by Tlhalo Raditlhalo
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• pp. 410-428

• 21 - Afrikaans literature, 1948–1976 by Hein Willemse
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• pp. 429-451

• 22 - Afrikaans literature after 1976: resistances and repositionings by Louise Viljoen
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• pp. 452-473

• 23 - The liberal tradition in fiction by Peter Blair
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• pp. 474-499

• 24 - Black Consciousness poetry: writing against apartheid by Thengani H. Ngwenya
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• pp. 500-522

• 25 - Popular forms and the United Democratic Front by Peter Horn
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• pp. 523-544

• 26 - Writing the prison by Daniel Roux
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• pp. 545-563

• 27 - Theatre: regulation, resistance and recovery by Loren Kruger
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• pp. 564-586

• 28 - The lyric poem during and after apartheid by Dirk Klopper
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• pp. 587-606

• 29 - Writing and publishing in African languages since 1948 by Christiaan Swanepoel
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• pp. 607-632

• 30 - Writing the interregnum: literature and the demise of apartheid by Stephen Clingman
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• pp. 633-651

• 31 - Rewriting the nation by Rita Barnard
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• pp. 652-675

• 32 - Writing the city after apartheid by Michael Titlestad
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• pp. 676-694

PART VI - SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE: CONTINUITIES AND CONTRASTS

• 33 - South Africa in the global imaginary by Andrew van der Vlies
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• pp. 695-716

• 34 - Confession and autobiography by M. J. Daymond and Andries Visagie
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• pp. 717-738

• 35 - ‘A change of tongue’: questions of translation by Leon de Kock
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• pp. 739-756

• 36 - Writing women by Meg Samuelson
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• pp. 757-778

• 37 - The experimental line in fiction by Michael Green
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• pp. 779-799

• 38 - The book in South Africa by Peter D. McDonald
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• pp. 800-817

• 39 - Literary and cultural criticism in South Africa by David Johnson
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• pp. 818-837

• Index
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• pp. 838-877