Breytenbach, Breyten
About Breyten Breytenbach
Biography (South African History Online)
Reviews
Carolin, Andy. "Breyten Breytenbach, A Monologue in Two Voices." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 53, no. 1, 2016
Evenson, Brian. "Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novel / Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish." Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. 29, no. 2, 2009
De Waal, Shaun, and Imraan Coovadia. "A Veil of Footsteps: Memoirs of a Nomadic Fictional Character." Biography, vol. 32, no. 1, 2009
Kirby, David. "Needing No Weatherman." The New York Times, 23 Dec. 2007
Fox, Robert Elliot. "The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution." Research in African Literatures, vol. 32, no. 1, 2001
Coetzee, J. M. "Against the South African Grain." New York Review of Books, vol. 46, no. 14, 23 Sep. 1999
Dorfman, Ariel. "Truth and Reconciliation." New York Times, 12 Sep. 1999
Adams, Phoebe-Lou. "Dog Heart." Atlantic, Sep. 1999
Macaskill, Brian. "Asia, Africa, and Japan." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, 1997
Coetzee, J. M. "Emerging from Censorship." Salmagundi, vol. 100, 1993
Coetzee, J. M. "A Poet in Prison." New Republic, vol. 192, no. 11, 1985
Gordimer, Nadine. "New Notes from Underground". Atlantic, Jul. 1984
Interviews
Hartley, Heather. "A Nomadic Conversation with Breyten Breytenbach." Tin House, vol. 11, no. 1, 2009
Naffis, André. "An Interview with Breyten Breytenbach." PN Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 2009
Johnson, Stephen. "'Let's Survive': An Interview with Breyten Breytenbach." Columbia, vol. 37, 2003
Linfield, Susie. "An Interview with Breyten Breytenbach." Salmagundi, vol. 128-129, 2000
Dimitriu, Ileana. "Approaches to Translation: Interview with Breyten Breytenbach." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, vol. 9, no. 1, 1997
Brückner, Thomas. "A Life Insurance against Death." Matatu, vol. 11, no. 1, 1994
Criticism
Viljoen, Louise. "'Straddling Languages': Aspects of the Translational and the Transnational in the Work of Afrikaans Authors Breyten Breytenbach, Marlene van Niekerk and Antje Krog." Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, 2017
Jacobs, J. U. Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction, 2016
Nkosi, Lewis. Writing Home: Lewis Nkosi on South African Writing, Stiebel and Chapman (eds.), 2016
Wiegandt, Kai. ""I too Might Once Have Been a Prisoner": Oppressor's Paranoia in J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Breyten Breytenbach." Social Dynamics, vol. 39, no. 3, 2013
Ndlovu, Isaac. "Prison and Solitary Confinement: Conditions and Limits of the Autobiographical Self." English Studies in Africa, vol. 55, no. 1, 2012
Lovesey, Oliver. "Detained and African Prison Diaries." Appraches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Lovesey (ed.), 2012
Viljoen, Hein. "Creolization and the Production and Negotiation of Boundaries in Breyten Breytenbach's Recent Work." Nordlit, vol. 13, no. 1, 2009
Coetzee, Ampie. "Breyten Breytenbach." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 46, no. 2, 2009
Dimitriu, Ileana. "'Unsettled and Unsettling Others': The 'Double Vision' of Local and Global in Breytenbach's Later Travelogues." English Academy Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2008
Saayman, Sandra. "The Resurgence of Prison Imagery in Breyten Breytenbach's A Veil of Footsteps." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2008
Roux, Daniel. "'I Speak to You and I Listen to the Voice Coming Back': Recording Solitary Confinement in the Apartheid Prison." English Academy Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 2005
Coullie, Judith Lütge. "Breytenbach and His Fathers: The Early Poetry." A.K.A. Breyten Breytenbach: Critical Approaches to His Writings and Paintings, Coullie and Jacobs (eds.), 2004
Coetzee, J. M. "Breyten Breytenbach and the Reader in the Mirror." A.K.A. Breyten Breytenbach: Critical Approaches to His Writings and Paintings, Coullie and Jacobs (eds.), 2004
De Kock, Petrus. "The Minor Literature of Breyten Breytenbach." Animations (of Deleuze and Guattari), Slack and Grossberg (eds.), 2003
Pedri, Nancy. "The Verbal and Visual Mirrors of Postcolonial Identity in Breyten Breytenbach's All One Horse." Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 3-4, 2002
Conley, Tim. "Captive Audience: Confession, Fiction, and the South African State." ARIEL, vol. 33, no. 3-4, 2002
Cingal, Guillaume. "'In an Attempt to Erase': Breyten Breytenbach's Prison Writing and the Need to Re-Cover." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2002
Fludernik, Monika. "The Prison as Colonial Space." Cycnos, vol. 19, no. 2, 2002
Viljoen, Louise. "'A White Fly on the Sombre Window Pane': The Construction of Africa and Identity in Breyten Breytenbach's Poetry." Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, 2001
Lewis, Simon. "Breytenbach." Poetics Today, vol. 22, no. 2, 2001
Viljoen, Louise. "'A White Fly on the Sombre Windowpane': The Construction of Africa and Identity in Breyten Breytenbach's Poetry." Re-Imagining Africa: New Critical Perspectives, Kossew and Schwerdt (eds.), 2001
Sienaert, Marilet. "Ut pictura poesis? A Transgressive Reading of Breytenbach's Poetry and Painting." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, vol. 8, no. 1, 1996
Jolly, Rosemary Jane. Colonization, Violence, and Narration in White South African Writing: André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J. M. Coetzee, 1996
Coetzee, J. M. "Breyten Breytenbach and the Censor." De-Scribing Empire, Lawson and Tiffin (eds.), 1994
Renders, Luc. "Arthur Rimbaud and Breyten Breytenbach: Two Authors in Search of Africa." Literature and Travel, Hanne (ed.), 1993
Reckwitz, Erhard. "'I Am Not Myself Anymore': Problems of Identity in Writing by White South Africans." English in Africa, vol. 20, no. 1, 1993
Reckwitz, Erhard. "Breyten Breytenbach's Memory of Snow and of Dust: A Postmodern Story of Identit(es)". Imagination and the Creative Impulse in the New Literatures in English, Bindella and Davis (eds.), 1993
Egan, Susanna. "Breytenbach's Mouroir: The Novel as Autobiography." Journal of Narrative Technique, vol. 18, no. 2, 1988
Lazarus, Neil. "Longing, Radicalism, Sentimentality: Reflections on Breyten Breytenbach's Season in Paradise." Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 1986
Roberts, Sheila. "South African Prison Literature." ARIEL, vol. 16, no. 2, 1985
Works
Novels
A Veil of Footsteps: Memoir of a Nomadic Fictional Character (2007)
Dog Heart: A Travel Memoir (1998)
All One Horse: Fiction and Images (1989)
Memory of Snow and Dust (1989)
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (1983)
Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novel (1983)
A Season in Paradise (1980)
Poetry Collections
Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish (2009)
Lady One: Of Love and Other Poems (2002)
Judas Eye (1989)
Buffalo Bill (1984)
In Africa Even the Flies Are Happy (1978)
And Death White as Words (1978)
Sinking Ship Blues (1977)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
"Modernities & Our Inner Africas." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 55, no. 1, 2018
"Drinking Moon: An Illusion of Selves." Raritan: A Quarterly Review, vol. 33, no. 3, 2014
"Dancing With Words to Trace the Rhythm of Sense: The Zbigniew Herbert Award 2017 Ceremony." Werkwinkel, vol. 12, no. 2, 2012
"The Returns." Harper's Magazine, vol. 319, no. 1912, 2009
"Looking for the Road." Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 84, no. 1, 2008
"The Writer and Responsibility." African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, Olaniyan and Quayson (eds.), 2007
"Africa and the World." PEN America, 2007
With Benjamin Barber, Martha Nussbaum, et al. "JIHAD. MCWORLD. MODERNITY. Public Intellectuals Debate 'The Clash of Civilizations'". Salmagundi, vol. 150/151, 2006
"Africa Asides." Black Renaissance, vol. 4, no. 1, 2002
Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution (1996)
"Cold Turkey." The Writer in Politics, Gass and Cuoco (eds.), 1996
"The Shattered Dream." The African Past and Contemporary Culture, Reckwitz et al. (eds.), 1993
Hart-Lam (1991)
"The Long March From Hearth to Heart." Social Research, vol. 58, no. 1, 1991
End Papers (1985)