Postapartheid Narratives: Reconciliation and Its Discontents (Hardcover)

Introduction: "Keeping alive the idea of gardening"  1. The Undertakers of Transition: The Artist as Psychopomp  2.  Literature and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission  3. Short-circuiting Grief: Masculinity, Combat and Isolation  4. Circuits of Grief: Women and the Mimesis of Community  5. Shifting Topographies of Loss: Becoming South Africa 6. Conclusion: Literature, Mourning and Community