Jacobs, Rayda
About Rayda Jacobs
Reviews
Thomas, Paul H. “The Mecca Diaries.” Biography, vol. 32, no. 1, 2009
Von Witt, Jean, and Margot Pakendorf. “Masquerade: The Story of My Life.” Biography, vol. 32, no. 1, 2009
Broekhoff, Marna. “Confessions of a Gambler.” Sister Namibia, vol. 20, no. 3, 2008
Muponde, Robert, and Tom Odhiam. “Reviews.” Scrutiny2, vol. 12, no. 2, 2007
Humphrey, Joy. “Confessions of a Gambler.” Library Journal, vol. 132, no. 2, 2007
“Confessions of a Gambler.” Publishers Weekly, vol. 254, no. 11, 2007
Gaughan, Thomas. “Confessions of a Gambler.” Booklist, vol. 103, no. 11, 2007
Roberts, Sheila. “World Literature in Review: South African.” World Literature Today, vol. 72, no. 2, 1998
Interviews
Lehman, Daniel W. “'Born from Restlessness': A Conversation with Rayda Jacobs.” World Literature Today, vol. 84, no. 6, 2010
Stotesbury, John A. “Remembering: An Interview with Rayda Jacobs.” The Atlantic Literary Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 2002
Criticism
Aumeerally, Naseem L. “Reimagining Muslim Women Through the Prism of Minor Diasporic and National Literatures.” Interventions, vol. 19, no. 1-2, 2017
McCorkle, James. “Narrating Memory: Rayda Jacobs, Yvette Christiansë and André Brink and the New Slave Narrative.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016
Smith, Neville. “Emancipation and 'the Great Wheel of Labour': Enduring Liminality in Rayda Jacobs's The Slave Book (1988) and A Painting of Two Slave Women (1859) by Thomas Baines.” English in Africa, vol. 42, no. 3, 2015
Baderoon, Gabeba. “The Sea inside Us: Narrating Self, Gender, Place and History in South African Memories of the Hajj.” Social Dynamics, vol. 38, no. 2, 2012
Stotesbury, John A. “Rayda Jacobs's Confessions of a Gambler as Post-Apartheid Cinema.” Engaging with Literature of Commitment, Volume 1: Africa in the World, Collier et al. (eds.), 2012
Van der Merwe, Chris N. “Rethinking Religion in a Time of Trauma.” Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel, Mengel and Borzaga (eds.), 2012
Olaussen, Maria. “Approaching Asia through the Figure of the Slave in Rayda Jacob's The Slave Book.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 42, no. 3, 2011
Gagiano, Annie. “South African Novelists and the Grand Narrative of Apartheid.” Discourse and Human Rights Violations, Anthonissen and Blommaert (eds.), 2007
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
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
Wenzel, Marita. “Re-Writing the 'Slave Narrative': Rayda Jacobs's The Slave Book and André Brink's The Rights of Desire.” English in Africa, vol. 31, no. 1, 2004
Stotesbury, John A. “Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction.” Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film, Onega and Gutleben (eds.), 2004
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
Masquerade: The Story of My Life (2008)
The Mecca Diaries (2005)
Novels
Joonie (2011)
My Father’s Orchid (2006)
Confessions of a Gambler (2003)
Sachs Street (2001)
The Slave Book (1998)
Eyes of the Sky (1996)
The Middle Children (1994)
Short Story Collections
Postcards from South Africa (2004)
Films
(Dir.) Crossroads, 2011
(Dir.) Confessions of a Gambler, 2007
(Dir./Wri.) Portrait of Muslim Women, 2005
(Dir./Wri.) The Legacy of Muhammad, 2004
(Dir.) 9 Eleven Muslims in the Americas, 2003
(Dir./Wri.) The Tuan of Antonie’s Gat, 2003