Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Rita Barnard
  • 2. Revolutionary Times: Mongane Wally Serote and Cold War Fiction / Monica Popescu
  • 3. After Marikana: The Temporalities of Betrayal / Annel Helena Pieterse
  • 4. Still Waiting? Writing Futurity after Apartheid / Katherine Hallemeier
  • 5. Precarious Time and the Aesthetics of Community / Sarah Lincoln
  • 6. Storying Trauma: Unconfessed as a Site of Political Possibility / Erica Still
  • 7. "Reach Forward, into the Past": Nostalgia as Post-Transitional Mode / Erica Lombard
  • 8. Crime Fiction in a Time of AIDS: South African Muti Noir / Brenna M. Munro
  • 9. Queer Returns in Postapartheid Short Fiction: S. J. Naude's The Alphabet of Birds / Andrew van der Vlies
  • 10. History and the Genres of Modernity: Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat / Lily Saint
  • 11. Transition as Democratic Form: The Unfinishable Work of Ivan Vladislavic / Christopher Holmes
  • 12. Conclusion: Reading in Transition / Tsitsi Jaji.