Foundational African Writers

This collection explores the complexities of black existence, and intellectual and cultural life in the work and legacies of centenarian writers, Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es'kia Mphahlele

List of illustrationsForeword - Simon GikandiAcknowledgementsTribute to Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson - Jill Bradbury, Khwezi Mkhize and Makhosazana XabaIntroduction - Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize and Makhosazana XabaPart I: Remapping and Rereading African Literature and Cultural ProductionChapter 1 Foundational Writers and the Making of African Literary Genealogy: Es'kia Mphahlele and Peter Abrahams - James OgudeChapter 2 Foundational African Literary Discourse and Dimensions of Authority - Obi NwakanmaChapter 3 Situating Sibusiso Nyembezi in African Literary History - Sikhumbuzo MngadiChapter 4 A Footnote and a Pioneer: Noni Jabavu's Legacy - Athambile MasolaChapter 5 'Navigations of Tyranny': Reconsidering Es'kia Mphahlele's Writing - Crain SoudienChapter 6 Noni Jabavu and the Sensibilities of Early Black Educated Elites - Hugo CanhamPart II: South Africa and Fugitive ImaginariesChapter 7 (Un)Homing and the Uncanny: The (Auto)Biographical Es'kia Mphahlele - Thando NjovaneChapter 8 In the Shadows of the British Empire: Nyembezi's Inkinsela YaseMngungundlovu - Innocentia J. MhlambiChapter 9 Escaping Apartheid: Race, Education and Cultural Exchange, 1955-2003 - Anne-Maria MakhuluChapter 10 Photographing Home Life in Alexandra between the 1930s and the 1970s - Thuto Thipe11 Down Avenues of (Un)Learning: Reading, Writing and Being - Jill BradburyPart III: In the Eye of the Short Century: Diaspora and pan-Africanism ReconsideredChapter 12 Es'kia Mphahlele and the Question of the Aesthetic - Khwezi MkhizeChapter 13 'African Contrasts': Noni Jabavu's Travelogue as Kaleidoscope - Tina SteinerChapter 14 Es'kia Mphahlele, Chemchemi and Pan-African Literary Publics - Christopher E.W. OumaChapter 15 The 'Crossroads and Forkways' of Pan-Africanism between 1948 and 1968 - Bhekizizwe PetersonChapter 16 'She Certainly Couldn't Be Conventional If She Tried': Noni Jabavu, the Editor of The New Strand Magazine in London - Makhosazana XabaChapter 17 Anti-Colonial Romance and Tragedy in Peter Abrahams' A Wreath for Udomo - Andrea Thorpe18 Mphahlele's Writing in the Whirlwind - Stéphane RobolinChapter 19 From South Africa to Coyaba: Peter Abrahams' (New) World Geographies - Victoria J. Collis-ButheleziContributorsIndex