April 2024 – Kris Van der Bijl

Behind the Orange Tree Gulley

April 27, 2024

It’s said that Mr Phahlele’s public notoriety rose when he bought a string of properties in the Bishopscourt area of Cape Town. However, what really got him famous was his decision to cut a gulley across his estate. →

The Dullness of Writing Back: On A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass

April 22, 2024

Reading texts as being their own way of becoming – maybe with a colonial rewriting and maybe with precolonial mythology – and not that which becomes overwhelmed by a reader’s own weight, so that it crushes the potential of both the text and the critic, seems best for a novel like Blackass. →

Narrative Tricks in The Angel of Santa Sofia by Josep M. Argemí

April 13, 2024

The Angel of Santa Sofia is a short novella by Josep M. Argemí, and tells the story of unnamed narrators attending an academic convention on the devil in Turin. →

Month: April 2024

Behind the Orange Tree Gulley

The Dullness of Writing Back: On A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass

Narrative Tricks in The Angel of Santa Sofia by Josep M. Argemí