Introduction : Reflections from the cracked lookingglass / Imraan Coovadia, Cóilín Parsons and Alexandra Dodd -- The marvels of the ingenious knight Don Quijote de la Mancha / André Brink -- Rereading Blake's lyric 'Never seek to tell thy love' / John Higgins -- How Hamlet became modern / Sandra Young -- These things do happen / William Kentridge -- The process of Shembe music / Neo Muyanga -- A page / Gabeba Baderoon, Rustum Kozain, Henrietta Rose-Innes -- Haunted by waters / Duncan Brown -- An inconvenient truth : Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx / Zackie Achmat -- Black reconstruction : a work in progress / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Syntactic structures : Noam Chomsky and the colourless green revolution in language studies / Rajend Mesthrie -- The space between : ways of looking at the art of Xu Bing / Peter D. McDonald -- Gandhi's Hind swaraj / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Nothing extraordinary : EM Forster and the English limit / Hedley Twidle -- How to read Lolita / Imraan Coovadia -- 'The dead' in the world : James Joyce's travelling text / Cóilín Parsons.
Summary:
"[E]ssays by world-renowned as well as emerging writers, artists and thinkers ... The essays, which began their lives as part of the Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series at the University of Cape Town, cover a wide range of subjects ... These imaginative explorations all engage in meaningful and often unusual ways with the current landscape of South African culture and creative thinking, reflecting on culture in the wake of decolonisation and asking questions about the place of the arts and humanities in a postcolonial world."--Back cover.
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