Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox: Challenging the Polarization of South African Discourse

This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and ground-breaking writers, and argues that her most important contribution comes through her refusal to choose sides in the contentious debates that have polarized public discourse following apartheid.

Renée Schatteman is an associate professor of World Anglophone Literature at Georgia State University in Atlanta and the editor of Sindiwe Magona’s essay collection, I Write the Yawning Void (Wits University Press, 2023).