Gabeba Baderoon
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The landscape of meaning: mechanism and memory in depictions of disaster
‘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…
The state of verse
An excitement among audiences about local themes is giving impetus to a vital writing culture, writes Gabeba Baderoon.
Of love and economics
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…
In other registers
<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…