South African literature beyond the Cold War

Introduction: Eastern Europe in the South African cultural imaginary

Revolution and transformation : Alex La Guma's models of decolonization

Interregnum and narrative confusion : Zoë Wicomb and the South African historiography of the early 1990s

Transition intertexts : J.M. Coetzee and the nineteenth-century Russian writers

Cultures in translation : Ivan Vladislavić and the itinerant imagery of the 1990s fiction

Nadine Gordimer and the end of apartheid in a global perspective

Conclusion.