New Fiction in English from Africa: West, East, and South

In the South African section, [Andre Viola] examines, along a chromatic divide, new directions spanning five years, as of 1985, when the South African government proclaimed a state of emergency. Of interest are: the focus on women as victims of a double oppression, as in Ngcobo's And They Didn't Die (1990), which disproves Spivak's 1985 pronouncement that the women of the urban subproletariat are not going on record in the "humanist" academy; the family (Tlali, Wicomb); and female autobiography (Kuzwayo).