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Contributors/Medewerkers Lida Krüger is a research assistant at UNISA, where she is enrolled for her doctorate in theory of literature. The focus of her doctoral study is how the concepts of deceit, authenticity and metatheatre resonate in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and Patrick Marber’s Closer. In 2009 Lida completed her MA in English Literature at the North-West University, Potchefstroom. Her dissertation is a comparison between the cultural contexts of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Janet Suzman’s The Free State: A South African Response to Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard”.

Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where she is writing a thesis on how Zimbabwean history has shaped its life narratives. Her research interests cover autobiography, gender and nationalism, and application of postcolonial theories and Bakhtin’s dialogism to literary and cultural texts. Hazel has published articles on autobiography, nationalism, globalisation and gender, and children’s literature.

As an undergraduate student, Bert Olivier discovered philosophy more or less by accident, which he has never regretted. Because he knew very little, philosophy turned out to be just up his street, as it were, because of Socrates’s teaching, that the only thing we know with certainty, is how little we know. Armed with this docta ignorantia, Bert set out to teach students the value of questioning, and even found out that one could write cogently about it, which he did during the 1980s and '90s in opposition to apartheid. Since then, he has been teaching and writing on philosophy and his other great loves, namely, the arts, architecture and literature. In the face of the many irrational actions on the part of people, and wanting to understand these, he later on branched out into psychoanalysis and social theory as well, and because philosophy cultivates in one a strong sense of justice, he has more recently been harnessing what little knowledge he has in intellectual opposition to the injustices brought about by the dominant economic system today, to wit, neoliberal capitalism. His motto is taken from Immanuel Kant's work: Sapere aude! (“Have the courage to think for yourself!”). Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa, conferred a Distinguished Professorship on him in 2012.

Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo teaches at UNISA. He is an established academic with publications locally and abroad. His work on Njabulo S. Ndebele is part of the book by Carli Coetzee in Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid (WUP, 2013). He has recently published his monograph, Who am I?: The Construction of 20th-Century South African

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Autobiographical Writings (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012). He is currently co-authoring a book on the intersection of genocide, trauma and literary studies.

Michael Titlestad is an associate professor, Head of the Department of English and Deputy Head of the School of Literature, Language and Media at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He publishes widely in the fields of South African literary and cultural studies, and on maritime literature. In addition, Michael is an editor of both literary and scholarly publications.

Alexia Vassilatos is a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa where she teaches French and francophone literature in the Department of Modern Languages. Her research interests include literary translation, francophone African literature, negritude and the works of Milan Kundera and J.M.G Le Clézio.

Hein Viljoen is professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University in South Africa. He studied at the universities of Potchefstroom, Pretoria and Utrecht (the Netherlands). His present research interests are literary theory, space and identity and cultural creolisation in Afrikaans and South African literature (mainly poetry). He has published widely in these fields. With the research team in literary studies he published three collections of essays in recent years, the most recent being Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries(Rodopi, 2013). Apart from being assistant editor of the Journal of Literary Studies/Tydskrif vir literatuurwetenskap he is also editor-in-chief of Literator (See www.literator.org.za).

Michael Wessels teaches literature in English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. His chief research area over the years has been San oral literature in its transcribed and translated form. His work sets out to read these texts as literature rather than as folklore or mythology and also delivers a critique of the readings which have traditionally been produced in relation to such materials. He is the author of Bushman Letters: Interpreting /Xam Narrative (2010, Wits University Press).

Marita Wenzel is an associate professor of English, mainly involved with research and postgraduate supervision at North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. She studied at the universities of Pretoria, South Africa, Stellenbosch and North-West (Potchefstroom). She has a PhD degree in comparative literature on Latin American and South African women writers. Her particular fields of interest are feminist studies,

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comparative literature (South African, postcolonial and Latin American novels) and translation studies. She has published several articles on South African and Latin American authors and has attended numerous national and international conferences on postcolonial topics. Her present field of research relates to topics on boundaries and identity formation in literature.Essays on the above-mentioned topics have been published as chapters in collections by Rodopi (2013, 2009, 2001), Palgrave (2008), Peter Lang (2004, 2007), The Gateway Press (Madrid, 2008) and Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée (2009) respectively. She is a member of various discipline-related associations and an accredited translator and examiner for the South African Translators' Institute (Afrikaans, Spanish and German into English.

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