DIASPORA AND IDENTITY IN SOUTH AFRICAN FICTION

354pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2016

In this study of twenty novels J.U.Jacobs demonstrates how diaspora is a dominant theme and the diasporic subject the most recognisable figure in contemporary South African fiction. Novelists studied include Karel Schoeman, Zoë Wicomb, Zakes Mda, J.M.Coetzee, Aziz Hassim, Ivan Vladislavić, and Njabulo Ndebele.

J.U.Jacobs is Emeritus Professor of English, Senior Research Associate and Fellow of the University of KawZulu-Natal.