Running Towards Us: New Writing from South Africa
In Running Towards Us, 31 contemporary authors offer literary responses to the end of apartheid, demonstrating what the creative imagination in South Africa has to offer at the turn of the 21st century.
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In Running Towards Us, 31 contemporary authors offer literary responses to the end of apartheid, demonstrating what the creative imagination in South Africa has to offer at the turn of the 21st century.Internet Book WatchRunning Towards Us presents new writings from South Africa from both established and new writers, revealing new subjects and concerns from writers who are now beyond the focus on apartheid. How does one define history and plan for the future? This turns to accepted masters of South African literature and new voices to consider changed themes and perceptions.
Introduction Running towards Us, Jeremy Cronin Marilyn's Dress, Graeme Friedman Memory, Chris van Wyk The Women Sing, Luvuyo Mkangelwa I'm retelling a womanburning, Roshila Nair Spiral Child, Louise Green Homeland Banter, Pumla Dineo Gqola The Awakening of Katie Fortuin, Finuala Dowling The Puddle, Immanuel Suttner Mind-Reader, Maureen Isaacson moni, Seitlhamo Motsapi At the Commission, Ingrid de Kok Mending, Ingrid de Kok TRC Stories: It Gets under the Skin, Heidi Grunebaum-Ralph Truth Commission, Joan Metelerkamp The Devil, Achmat Dangor Emotions and the Delegates, Jonathan Grossman What's in a Name, Bernadette Muthien Je To Mozny, Edward Lurie The Day of the Boycott, Felicity Wood The WHITES ONLY Bench, Ivan Vladislavic land, Antjie Krog Recognition, David Medalie Excerpt from "Freedom Lament and Song", Mongane Wally Serote Fragments from the Life of Norman Rubarto Paul Mason This Carting Life, Rustum Kozain The Naked Song, Mandla Langa Telegraph to the Sky, Sandile Dikeni Rituals for Martha, Zachariah Rapola Habari Gani Africa Ranting, Lesego Rampolokeng Tiresias in the City of Heroes, Karen Press Eternity is a Hell of a Thing to Waste, Natasha Distiller Glossary
\ From The CriticsRunning Towards Us presents new writings from South Africa from both established and new writers, revealing new subjects and concerns from writers who are now beyond the focus on apartheid. How does one define history and plan for the future? This turns to accepted masters of South African literature and new voices to consider changed themes and perceptions.\ \
