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Govender, Ronnie
About Ronnie Govender
Biography (South African History Online)
Biography and Bibliography (Zulu Kingdom) (PDF)
"Recording a Petulant Soul." Mail & Guardian, 8 Jun. 2008
Reviews
Roy, Modhumita. “What Memory Resists: Indenture, Apartheid, and the 'Memory-Work' of Reconstruction in Ronnie Govender's Black Chin, White Chin.” Relations and Networks in South African Indian Writing, Hand and Pujolràs-Noguer (eds.), 2018
Kruger, Anton, and Caroline Smart. “In the Manure: Memories and Reflections.” Biography, vol. 32, no. 1, 2009
Interviews
Rajendra, Chetty. “Interview with Ronnie Govender.” At the Edge: The Writings of Ronnie Govender, 2017
Criticism
Chetty, Rajendra. “A Decolonial Reading of Ronnie Govender’s ‘Over My Dead Body’.” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2020
Stiebel, Lindy. “Made in Cato Manor: Ronnie Govender and the Fight to Preserve a Personal/Public Space.” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2020
Maithufi, Sope, and Rosemary Gray. “Revisiting Consciousness in Okri and Govender [Special Section].” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2020
Chetty, Rajendra. At the Edge: The Writings of Ronnie Govender, 2017
McNulty, Niall, and Lindy Stiebel. A Literary Guide to KwaZulu-Natal, 2017
Ocita, James. “Re-Membered Pasts, Dismembered Families: Fetishization of Indianness in Three Post-Apartheid Examples of South African Indian Fiction.” Matatu, vol. 48, no. 1, 2016
Chetty, Rajendra. “Transactional Memory in Ronnie Govender's At the Edge and other Cato Manor Stories.” English Academy Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2016
Bose, Neilesh. “Performing History and Constructing ‘Culture’: Ronnie Govender's 1949 and the Romanticism of Historical Memory.” African Studies, vol. 74, no. 2, 2015
Chetty, Rajendra. “Resistance and Reconciliation: Post-1994 South African Indian Writings.” Modern African Literature, Gill (ed.), 2008
Mesthrie, Rajend. “Dialect Representation versus Linguistic Stereotype in Literature: Three Examples from Indian South African English.” Global Fragments: (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order, Bartels and Wiemann (eds.), 2007
Mesthrie, Rajend. “Assessing Representations of South African Indian English in Writing: An Application of Variation Theory.” Language Variation and Change, vol. 17, no. 3, 2005
Brown, Duncan. “Narrative, Memory and Mapping: Ronnie Govender's At the Edge and Other Cato Manor Stories.” Current Writing, vol. 17, no. 1, 2005
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
In the Manure: Memories and Reflections (2008)
Novels
Song of the Atman (2006)
The Lahnee's Pleasure [based on his play of the same name] (1975)
Short Story Collections
At the Edge and Other Cato Manor Stories (1996)
Plays/Scripts
Interplay: A Collection of South African Plays (2005)
Your Own Dog Won't Bite You (1980s)
The Lahnee’s Pleasure (1972)
Beyond Calvary: I did it for my God (1964)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“Community Upliftment in the Field of Sports.” Africa Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, 1999
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Profile of Ronnie Govender. YouTube, 21 Aug. 2017
Ronnie Govender's Your Own Dog Won't Bite You. YouTube, 18 Oct. 2015