Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut

This monograph is one of the first on the market that focuses entirely on Damon Galgut’s novels. The authors of the essays approach the South African writer’s work from a variety of different critical perspectives and show that Damon Galgut’s novels transcend what readers generally expect from post-apartheid white writing.

Zbigniew Bialas is Professor of English in the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) and author of five novels. He was Humboldt Research Fellow in Germany, Fulbright Senior Fellow in the USA and Rockefeller Research Fellow in Italy. His academic books include Post-Tribal Ethos in African Literature (1993), Mapping Wild Gardens: The Symbolic Conquest of South Africa (1997) and The Body Wall: Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices (2006). His first novel, Korzeniec (2011) was awarded Silesian Literary Laurels and was turned into a successful theatrical play. Zbigniew Bialas edited/co-edited twelve academic volumes, published over sixty academic essays and translated English, American and Nigerian literature into Polish.