Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Lewis Nkosi - Inscriptions -- PART ONE: WRITING ON LEWIS NKOSI -- THE LITERARY CRITIC -- 1 Lewis Nkosi as Literary Critic -- 2 Lewis Nkosi's Early Literary Criticism -- 3 Lewis Nkosi: A Commentary Piece -- THE DRAMATIST AND POET -- 4 Contaminations: BBC Radio and the Black Artist - Lewis Nkosi's "The Trial" and "We Can't All be Martin Luther King" -- 5 Hostage Drama: The Rhythm of Violence and Some Comments on "The Black Psychiatrist" -- 6 Psychoanalysis and Apartheid: The Image and Role of the Psychiatrist in Selected Works of Lewis Nkosi -- 7 The Desire of Knowledge, or, the Body in Excess: Lewis Nkosi's Play "The Black Psychiatrist" -- 8 An Introduction to the Poetry of Lewis Nkosi -- THE NOVELIST -- 9 "Bathing Area - For Whites Only": Reading Prohibitive Signs and 'Black Peril' in Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds -- 10 The Return of the Native: Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds Revisited in Post-Apartheid Durban -- 11 Companion Piece: South African Censors' Report on Mating Birds -- 12 Mammon and God: Reality, Imagination and Irony in Underground People -- 13 Beyond the Literature of Protest: Lewis Nkosi's Underground People -- PART TWO: LEWIS NKOSI IN HIS OWN VOICE -- INTERVIEWS -- 14.1 Interview with Lewis Nkosi -- 14.2 Nuruddin Farah and Lewis Nkosi in conversation with ACHILLE MBEMBE -- A RETROSPECTIVE SELECTION -- 15.1 Fiction by Black South Africans -- 15.2 Alex La Guma: The Man and His Work -- 15.3 Negritude: New and Old Perspectives -- 15.4 White Writing -- 15.5 Bloke Modisane: Blame Me On History -- 15.6 The Republic of Letters After the Mandela Republic -- PART THREE: SOURCES FOR LEWIS NKOSI -- 16 Bibliography -- 17 Timeline -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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