Transformations
Subtitle: essays
By: Imraan Coovadia
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Umuzi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781415201381; 9781415204849; 9781415204856
Notes: "The essays are on writing, politics and culture from a South African perspective."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Against the book; title: Coetzee in (and out of) Cape Town; title: How to read Lolita; title: The azan clock; title: Transformation - three concepts; title: Entanglement; title: Midnight's children (in South Africa); title: Diary of a bad year : Mbeki's 2007 letters to the nation; title: How they see us; title: Alan Paton, The hero of Currie Road; title: Curveball 2; title: Vuvuzela!; title: One of us; title: Cheapskate; title: George Eliot's realism and Adam Smith; title: Tolstoy against literature.