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• W232248352 abstract "Reviewed by: SA Lit Beyond 2000 Loren Kruger SA Lit Beyond 2000eds. Michael Chapmanand Margaret Lenta Scottsville: U of KwaZulu-Natal P, 2011. ix + 405 pp. ISBN 9781869142124 paper. The present moment, nearly twenty years after the official end of apartheid, is a good time to reevaluate the place of literature and other cultural practices like theater in South Africa. Readers of Chapman’s previous work, including, as author, Southern African Literatures (1996) and, as editor, several anthologies of poetry and poetry criticism, such as Soweto Poetry (1984; 2007), should expect comprehensive commentary on present trends. Chapman and Lenta’s introduction provides a solid frame for current debates around the meaning of “SA Lit beyond 2000.” The collection’s best essays illuminate twenty-first-century writing in South Africa, but the volume as a whole falls somewhat short of the claims made by its title. The editors aim to treat a broad enough range of genres and locations to qualify as “South African” and to move beyond the concerns of the past toward a fuller understanding of the post-apartheid environment shaped by transnational currents, but the geographical range is limited and some authors remain mired in what I have called the “post-anti-apartheid” worldview (Kruger 35; qtd. in SA Lit 4, 26), a perspective still shaped by the terms and preoccupations of anti-apartheid discourse rather than one fully attentive to the new demands of the present moment. Directly after the introduction, Leon de Kock begins with the question, “Does South African literature still exist?” (19), which continues to be pressing since he first posed it in 2005, and goes on to address the transnational challenge to presumptions about national identities, but the volume as a whole does not fully confront this challenge. [End Page 203] The gaps are evident in several areas. For one, a volume whose authors hail mostly from the editors’ base at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and secondarily from a few sites on the coast between KZN in the east and Cape Town in the west, could be accused of avoiding the most energetic province in the heart of the country. Gauteng is the home of South Africa’s largest and most transnational city, Johannesburg, and the executive capital, Pretoria/Tshwane, and its universities have produced significant research on new writing, published for example by Wits University Press in Johannesburg or in Scrutiny2 at the University of South Africa near Pretoria. It seems particularly odd that the article on urban fiction should be delegated to someone who lives far from the country’s two major conurbations. While Sally-Ann Murray writes well, here and elsewhere, about the prize-winning prose of Ivan Vladislavić and mentions the uneven work of Niq Mhlongo and Kgebetli Moele alongside Phaswane Mpe’s single fine novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2002), she apparently has nothing to say about women writers like Lauren Beukes, Margie Orford, Jassy Mackenzie, or Angela Makholwa, whose work, despite being marketed in generic boxes (science fiction or detective thriller), captures the unnerving experience of life in Cape Town as well as Johannesburg more powerfully. To be sure, Orford appears in Eva Hunter and Siphokazi Jonas’s contribution on black and white women writers, and Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008), pops up at the end of Cheryl Stobie’s chapter, but the former is mentioned only briefly (110–11). The latter is mentioned chiefly as an afterthought to Stobie’s primary preoccupation with postcolonial pomosexuality (335), a rubric that, while it highlights queer sexuality in noteworthy writers such as Michiel Heyns and Sello Duiker who otherwise have little in common, does not do justice to Beukes’s innovative splicing of cyborg and rave scenarios with a razor-sharp critique of the political economy of branding in Moxyland or her synthesis of the thriller and the supernatural in Zoo City (2010). It is also a pity that several chapters follow old apartheid habits by reinforcing ethnic segregation. While separate treatment may make sense in the discussion of African-language writers who have not received national attention until recently—and whose work is illuminated by Nhlanhla Mathonsi and Gugu Mazibuko on writing in Zulu and..." @default.
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