‘There Are Mechanisms in Place’ posits that the all-encompassing physicality of the landscape does not reference an ‘abstract’ danger, but one that is created by both nature and human design
An excitement among audiences about local themes is giving impetus to a vital writing culture, writes Gabeba Baderoon.
Is this the best of times for South African literature? South Africans are buying more South African books. There are high-profile literary awards (leave aside, for now, the weak representation of poetry), successful local literature promotions, popular magazines commissioning new work by writers and a robust literary festival circuit.
<b>AUTHOR’S NOTES:</b> Written over a period of five years,<i>The Dream in the Next Body</i> earned feminist scholar Gabeba Baderoon the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. Baderoon talks to us about the book.