Dangor, Achmat
About Achmat Dangor
Reviews
Jeffries, Stuart. "Legacy of Abuse." The Guardian, 14 Jan. 2004
Trapido, Barbara. "Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor." The Independent, 12 Dec. 2003
Nel, Phil. "Apartheid Novel Focuses on Fate over Free Will." K-State, 9 May 1999
Eller, Erica. "Why You Should Read Kafka's Curse." Bosphorus Review of Books, undated
Interviews
Young, Elaine. "Interview with Achmat Dangor." Kunapipi, vol. 24, no. 1-2, 2002
Anon. "Achmat Dangor: Writing and Change." Staffrider, vol. 9, no. 2, 1990
Munson, Rita, et al. "South African Literature in the Seventies and Eighties: A Conversation with Achmat Dagor." Polygraph, no. 1, 1987
Criticism
Duncan, Rebecca. South African Gothic: Anxiety and Creative Dissent in the Post-Apartheid Imagination and Beyond, 2018
Akpome, Aghogho. "Multiple Twilights: Narrating Transition in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit." English in Africa, vol. 44, no. 3, 2017
Buxbaum, Lara. "Risking Intimacy in Contemporary South African Fiction." Textual Practice, vol. 31, no. 3, 2017
Harpin, Tina. "A Shameful and Deadly Legacy: Rape, Incest and Parricide in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit and Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night." Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema, Crowley et al. (eds.), 2017
Rajiva, Jay. Postcolonial Parabola, 2017
Barris, Ken. "The Afrikaner Grotesque." English in Africa, vol. 41, no. 1, 2014
Akpome, Aghogho. "'Dancing Masquerades': Narrating Postcolonial Personhood in Three Novels." English in Africa, vol. 40, no. 1, 2013
Laurencin, Madeleine. "A Polychromatic Approach to the Rainbow Nation Today: Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor, Nietverloren and Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2012
Cooppan, Vilashini. "Affecting Politics: Post-Apartheid Fiction and the Limits of Trauma." Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel, Mengel and Borzaga (eds.), 2012
Desai, Gurav. "Asian African Literatures: Genealogies in the Making." Research in African Literatures, vol. 42, no. 3, 2011
Field, Roger. "Coming Home, Coming Out: Achmat Dangor's Journeys through Myth and Constantin Cavafy." English Studies in Africa, vol. 54, no. 2, 2011
Frenkel, Ronit. "Reconsidering South African Indian Fiction Postapartheid." Research in African Literatures, vol. 42, no. 3, 2011
Brust, Imke. "Transcending Apartheid: Empathy and the Search for Redemption." Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing, Singh and Chetty (eds.), 2010
Briault Manus, Vicki. "The Season of Whispers Is Over: Now the Stories Can Be Safely Told." Healing South African Wounds/Guérir les blessures de L'Afrique du Sud, Teulié and Joseph-Vilain (eds.), 2009
Poyner, Jane. "Writing under Pressure: A Post-Apartheid Canon?" Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 44, no. 2, 2008
Rastogi, Pallavi Columbus. Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa, 2008
Kearny, Jack. "Representations of Islamic Belief and Practice in a South African Context: Reflections on the Fictional Work of Ahmed Essop, Aziz Hassim, Achmat Dangor and Rayda Jacobs." Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 22, no. 1-2, 2006
Rastogi, Pallavi. "From South Asia to South Africa: Locating Other Post-Colonial Diasporas." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, 2005
Roos, Henriette. "Torn between Islam and the Other: South African Novelists on Cross-Cultural Relationships." Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 21, no. 1-2, 2005
Brown, Karen. "'Trees, Forests and Communities': Some Historiographical Approaches to Environmental History in Africa." Area, vol. 35, no. 4, 2003
Kauer, Ute. "Nation and Gender: Female Identity in Contemporary South African Writing." Current Writing, vol. 15, no. 2, 2003
Rhine, Marjorie E. "Satanic Verses and Kafka's Curse[s]: Kafkan Echoes in Stories of Mutable Migrant Identities." Journal of the Kafka Society of America, vol. 27, no. 1-2, 2003
Kruger, Loren. "'Black Atlantics', 'White Indians' and 'Jews': Locations, Locutions, and Syncretic Identities in the Fiction of Achmat Dangor and Others." Scrutiny2, vol. 7, no. 2, 2002
Monier, Hawabibi. "Dialogic Strategies in Waiting for Leila: Canonical, Vernacular, and Political Inspirations." AUETSA 96, I-II, 1996
Works
Novels
Dikeledi: Child of Tears, No More (2017)
Strange Pilgrimages (2013)
Bitter Fruit (2003)
Kafka's Curse (1997)
The Z Town Trilogy (1990)
Waiting for Leila (1981)
Poetry Collections
Private Voices (1992)
Bulldozer (1983)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
"Read an Excerpt from a Work in Progress by Achmat Dangor." The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2018
"Amandla! Mandela." Harper's Magazine, vol. 318, no. 1907, 2009
"Africa and the World: Writers at Home and Away." PEN America, 2006
"Another Country." The Guardian, 2004
As editor with Michael Chapman: Voices from Within: Black Poetry from Southern Africa, 1982
Audio and Audiovisual Material