Preface to the Second Edition 1. Listening for the Mediated Voices of the Southern African Khoisan in Hendrik's Dwaalstories : Ironies and Wonders 2. Marecheran Postmodernism: Mocking the Bad Joke of "African Modernism" 3. Anomy and Agony in a Nation in Crisis: Soyinka's Season of Anomy 4. Finding Foundantions for Chance in Bessie Head's The Cardinals 5. Blood Gets a Voice: Unity Dow's The Screaming of the Innocent 6. Two Late Apartheid-Era Novels: Balancing the Books in the South African Present 7. Mongane Serote's To Every Birth Its Blood : Painting the True Colours of Apartheid 8.

Shakespeare, (Fanon,) Salih: Can the Black Man Love the White Woman? Can the White Woman Love the Black Man? 9. A. C. Jordan's Tales From Southern Africa 10. Memory, Power and Bessie Head: A Question of Power 11. Patterns of Leadership in Bessie Head's Maru and A Bewitched Crossroad : An African Saga 12. "Barbarism" and "Civilisation" in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and in Marechera's Black Sunlight 13. Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk : The Noise in the Dictator's Ear 14.

Performances, Ethics and Aesthetics of Wealth in African Literary Depiction 15. Three Takes on Somali Womanhood in the Eddies of the Contemporary Black Atlantic Context 16. Achebe's Children: Resonance, Poignance and Grandeur Acknowledgements.