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L A N G U A G E & L I T E R AT U R E FORTHCOMING

Death and Compassion The Elephant in Southern African Literature DAN WYLIE

Examines what literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them. $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4218-7 NOVEMBER 2018

Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication A South African Perspective Edited by RUSSELL KASCHULA, PAMELA MASEKO, and H. EKKEHARD WOLFF

An in-depth look at the changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. $35.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4026-8

Natures of Africa Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms Edited by F. FIONA MOOLLA

One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media. $35.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4913-1

Losing the Plot Crime, Reality and Fiction in Postapartheid South African Writing LEON DE KOCK

A well-known scholar and writer’s lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing. $30.00 • 276 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4964-3

Accented Futures

The Disorder of Things

Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid

A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah

CARLI COETZEE

JOHN MASTERSON

Explores relationships created by the use of language to convey knowledge, particularly in translation.

A reading of the Somali novelist through the prism of the French philosopher.

$30.00 • 200 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4740-3

$30 .00 • 320 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4570-6

BIOGRAPHIES, MEMOIRS, & LETTERS FORTHCOMING

Lie on Your Wounds Selected Prison Letters by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

Memory Against Forgetting Memoir of a Time in South African Politics 1938-1964

Edited by DEREK HOOK

RUSTY BERNSTEIN

Letters from prominent South African political activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.

This classic text, first published in 1999, is Rusty Bernstein’s remarkable memoir of a life in South African resistance politics.

$35.00 • 360 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4240-8 NOVEMBER 2018

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P L AY S Mooi Street and Other Moves PAUL SLABOLEPSZY

A collection of six plays by South Africa’s leading playwright and actor featuring works written between 1984 and 1993. $20.00 • 80 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4159-3

The Bram Fischer Waltz A Play HARRY KALMER

A brief, intense work with the protagonist as narrator, this play explores Bram Fischer’s uncompromising political beliefs and commitment to a non-racial democracy.

Suddenly the Storm PAUL SLABOLEPSZY

A smouldering dark comedy that suddenly leads to startling revelations, rage and recrimination. $20.00 • 80 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4092-3

Ulwembu A Play EMPATHEATRE and the BIG BROTHERHOOD

The effects of addiction not only on those who suffer from it but on communities, families and the police. $20.00 • 120 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4195-1

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Tin Bucket Drum A Play

Missing A Play

NEIL COPPEN

JOHN KANI

Through a lyrical script and the creative use of lighting and sound, one woman, the Narrator, succeeds in evoking a host of characters as this allegorical tale of oppression and liberation plays itself out.

Story of conspiracies, lies, back stabbing and disappointments.

Robert and his family are faced with the challenges of a South Africa that has changed radically from the one he remembers from more than thirty years ago.

$20.00 • 80 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4972-8

$20.00 • 80 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4889-9

The Backroom Boy

Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist

Andrew Mlangeni’s Story MANDLA MATHEBULA

The story of an ANC elder and a well-researched historical record overlaid with intensely personal reflections which intersect with the political narrative. $30.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4086-2

A Memoir N. CHABANI MANGANYI

Manganyi’s life story traces the twists and turns of his journey from humble beginnings in Limpopo, to Yale University. $30.00 • 228 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-86814-862-2

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SOCIOLOGY FORTHCOMING

I Want to Go Home Forever

Changing Space, Changing City Johannesburg After Apartheid

Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis

Edited by ALISON TODES, CHRIS WRAY, GRAEME GOTZ, and PHILIP HARRISON

Edited by LOREN B. LANDAU and TANYA PAMPALONE

A richly illustrated and detailed empirical analysis of changes in the city’s physical space and and the social identities forged within specific neighborhoods.

Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg. $30.00 • 240 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4221-7 AUGUST 2018

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Labour Beyond Cosatu

Organise or Die?

Mapping the Rupture in South Africa’s Labour Landscape

Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers

Edited by ANDRIES BEZUIDENHOUT and MALEHOKO TSHOAEDI

Rebellions and conflicts in the trade unions, and rivalries between Cosatu affiliates in South Africa. $35.00 • 272 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4053-4

RAPHAËL BOTIVEAU

The story of one of the leading trade unions in South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers, and its role in the struggle against white minority rule. $40.00 • 360 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-776-14204-0

AFRICAN HISTORY Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa Past and Present Edited by BHEKIZIZWE PETERSON, BRIAN WILLAN, and JANET REMMINGTON

Sheds new light on Native Life appearing at a critical historical juncture, and reflects on how to read it in South Africa’s heightened challenges today.

Between Worlds German Missionaries and the Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa LINDA CHISHOLM

Scrutinizes the experience, complexities and paradoxes German mission society education. $30.00 • 240 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4174-6

$35.00 • 392 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4981-0

Writing the Ancestral River

Hidden Histories of Gordonia

A Biography of the Kowie

Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990

JACKLYN COCK

An illuminating and unusual biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape. $30.00 • 204 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4187-6

MARTIN LEGASSICK

Accounts of family histories, resistance to colonisation, and the imposition of racial segregation and land dispossession in the Gordonia region of the Northern Cape. $ 40.00 • 436 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4954-4

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ANTHROPOLOGY FORTHCOMING

Dress as Social Relations An Interpretation of Bushman Dress VIBEKE MARIA VIESTAD

Historical collections shows that Bushman dress was an embodied practice of social relations. $30.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4191-3 AUGUST 2018

Healing the Exposed Being A South African Ngoma Tradition ROBERT THORNTON

The Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa through political, economic, interpretive and environmental lenses. $30.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4018-3

ARCHAEOLOGY & ROCK ART FORTHCOMING

Visionary Animal RENAUD EGO Translated by DEKE DUSINBERRE

This highly illustrated collection of essays on themes such as rain animals and therianthropes takes stock of our current knowledge of rock art and proposes a new grid of reading. $80.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4226-2 NOVEMBER 2018

African Archaeology without Frontiers Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress Edited By KARIM SADR, AMANDA ESTERHUYSEN, and CHRISTINE SIEVERS

Identity, interaction, and the need to balance cultural heritage management and sustainable development in the face of social inequalities and crippling poverty. $35.00 • 264 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4034-3

Termites of the Gods San Cosmology in Southern African Rock Art SIYAKHA MGUNI

Siyakha Mguni’s personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as formlings. $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4776-2

Seeing and Knowing Rock Art with and without Ethnography

Working with Rock Art Recording, Presenting and Understanding Rock Art Using Indigenous Knowledge Edited by BENJAMIN SMITH, DAVID MORRIS, and KNUT HELSKOG

Cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. $35.00 • 328 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4545-4

STAY CONNECTED

Edited by BENJAMIN SMITH, CHRISTOPHER CHIPPINDALE, and GEOFFREY BLUNDELL

The depth and wide geographical impact of David Lewis-Williams. $35.00 • 328 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4513-3

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POLITICS FORTHCOMING

The Climate Crisis

Shadow State

South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives

The Politics of State Capture IVOR CHIPKIN, MARK SWILLING, HAROON BHORAT, MZUKISI QOBO, SIKHULEKILE DUMA, LUMKILE MONDI, CAMAREN PETER, MBONGISENI BUTHELEZI, HANNAH FRIEDENSTEIN, and NICKY PRINS

Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR

An investigation of emerging ecosocialist alternatives. $40.00 • 368 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4054-1

A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society. $35.00 • 176 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4212-5 JULY 2018

Capitalism’s Crises

Fees Must Fall

Class Struggles in South Africa and the World

Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa

Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR

Edited by SUSAN BOOYSEN

The second volume in the Democratic Marxism provides compelling analyses of the complexity and depth of the worldwide economic crisis.

Maps the student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt. $35.00 • 300 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4985-8

$35.00 • 312 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-86814-920-9

New South African Review 6

Regarding Muslims From Slavery to Post-Apartheid

The Crisis of Inequality

GABEBA BADEROON

Edited by GILBERT KHADIAGALA, SARAH MOSOETSA, DEVAN PILLAY, and ROGER SOUTHALL

An analysis of the role of Muslims from South Africa’s founding to the present and points to the resonance of these discussions beyond South Africa.

Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy.

$30.00 • 228 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4769-4

$35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4055-8

Ties that Bind

Stopping the Spies

Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa

Constructing and Resisting the Surveillance State in South Africa

Edited by WALSH & SOSKE

JANE DUNCAN

Intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance within the histories of apartheid and colonialism.

Questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state.

$35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4968-1

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$30 .00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4215-6

POLITICS The Unresolved National Question in South Africa Left Thought Under Apartheid and Beyond Edited by EDWARD WEBSTER & KARIN PAMPALLIS

This volume examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addressed the National Question.

Race Otherwise Forging a New Humanism for South Africa ZIMITRI ERASMUS

Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race. $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4058-9

$35.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4022-0

Remains of the Social Desiring the Post-apartheid Edited by MAURITS VAN BEVER DONKER, ROSS TRUSCOTT, PREMESH LALU & GARY MINKLEY

An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid. $35.00 • 334 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4030-5

Thinking Freedom in Africa Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics MICHAEL NEOCOSMOS

Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. $35.00 • 650 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4866-0

L AW We, the People

The State of Secularism

Insights of an Activist Judge ALBIE SACHS

Religion, Tradition and Democracy in South Africa

A stirring collection of public talks and essays by an activist and former judge offers an intimate insider’s view of South Africa’s Constitution.

A history of global political secularism comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa.

$30.00 • 280 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4998-8

$30.00 • 248 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4057-2

DHAMMAMEGHA ANNIE LEATT

Competition Law and Economic Regulation Addressing Market Power in Southern Africa Edited by JONATHAN KLAAREN, SIMON ROBERTS, and IMRAAN VALODIA

A critical assessment of the efficacy of the competition and economic regulation frameworks, including the impact of a number of the regional competition authorities in a range of sectors throughout southern Africa.

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$40.00 • 384 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4090-9

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