Books by Jane Poyner

The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa's socio-economic reality has actually changed.

Offers an account of J M Coetzee's literary career. From "Dusklands" to "Disgrace" and from "Waiting for the Barbarians" to "Elizabeth Costello", this work traces how Coetzee rehearses and revises his understanding of the ethics of intellectualism in parallel with the emergence of the 'new South Africa'.