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Scenes from Provincial Life brings together, in one volume, J.M. Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime. It opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother’s unconditional love.
UNISA Series of essays dealing with issues in English Studies in Southern Africa.
This unique text charts the critical social and legal debates and jurisprudential developments that took place during the rape law reform process from a comparative and international context. It also provides important insights into the engagement of civil society with law reform and includes thoughtful and contemporary discussions on the topics. It highlights the significance of rape law reform inclusion or exclusion at various stages in the process and discusses the strategic decisions made by gender activists and the context in which these decisions were made. The book also emphasises potential implementation challenges and considers how these might be addressed in terms of law and policy.
Read how Shudu overcomes her sadness and her challenges, and grows into a girl, and then an adult, who has learned to love herself!
The work of David Goldblatt – as recipient of the 2006 Hasselblad Foundation Award undoubtedly South Africa’s most prominent active photographer – reflects a life-long exploration of the relationship between individual South Africans and the society they live in. His first extended photographic essay was compiled in the 1960s. When it was finally published in 1975 as Some Afrikaners Photographed, the book created quite a stir locally. Eventually most of the small print-run had to be sold off for a song.
Somewhere on the Border was written in exile and was intercepted in the post and banned by the apartheid censors. This one-act version of the play brings the South African Border War back into public discourse and pierces through the armour of silence, secrecy and shame that still surrounds it.
Sophiatown was the ‘Chicago of South Africa’, a vibrant community that produced not only gangsters and shebeen queens but leading journalists, writers, musicians and politicians, and gave urban African culture its rhythm and style. This play, based on the life history of Sophiatown, opened at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in February 1986 to great acclaim. The play won the AA Life Vita Award for Playwright of the Year 1985/86. This new edition of the play includes an introduction which sets the work in its historical context.
Out of stockSouth Africa: the art of a nation explores the history of South Africa through a selection of its artworks, playing particular attention not only to their relationship to one another, but also to their connections to key episodes in the nation’s evolution.
A report on the primary art market in South Africa that examines the structure and regional differences between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa’s art capitals.
An open space where poetry matters. Stanzas is a quarterly for new poetry to suit all moods. It provides a platform for established and emerging poets to share their most recent work and affirm poetry’s important place in our lives. “The sound must seem an echo of the sense.”
Stanzas publishes new and translated poems in English, and reviews of new collections published in South Africa. It provides a platform for both established and emerging poets to share their recent work and so affirm the place in our lives.
“…think of the caterpillar as the poet, and think of the chrysalis as the book, and think of the butterfly as what happens when the reader can act with the poem.” – Margaret Atwood
“For him [Milan Kundera], the novel was the highest form of aesthetic endeavor, a kind of anti-scripture representing the sensibility of the individual, containing “an outlook, a wisdom, a position… that would rule out identification with any politics, any religion, any ideology, any moral doctrine, any group.” – David Samuels
“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human Soul.”
Emily Dickinson
This catalogue accompanies Steven Cohen’s first exhibition at Stevenson Johannesburg – an intense meditation on loss, grief and absence, following the death of his partner and artistic collaborator, the dancer Elu.
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