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Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Short Story After Apartheid<\/em>: Thinking with Form in South African Literature <\/a>(Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n

Awards<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Honourable Mention at the British Association for Contemporary Literature Monograph Prize<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Reviews<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Michael Chapman, \u2018The Short Story in South Africa: \u201cThinking with Form\u201d\u2019<\/a>, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa<\/em>, 37,1 (2025), pp 29\u201338<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Marta Fossati, \u2018The Short Story After Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature<\/em>, Graham K. Riach (2023)\u2019<\/a>, Short Fiction in Theory & Practice<\/em>, 14, 2 (2025), pp. 272-6 (DOI: 10.1386\/fict_00116_5)<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Baron Glanvill, \u2018The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature<\/em> by Graham K. Riach (Review)\u2019,<\/a> Research in African Literatures<\/em>, 55,1 (2025), pp. 206\u20138. (DOI: 10.2979\/ral.00054)<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Jude Nwabuokei, \u2018The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature<\/em> by Graham K. Riach\u2019<\/a>, Journal of Postcolonial Writing<\/em> (2024), pp. 470-4 (DOI: 10.1080\/17449855.2024.2429278)<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Mathilde Rogez, \u2018Graham K. Riach, The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature <\/em>(Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2023)<\/a>\u2019, Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de La Nouvelle<\/em>, 83 (2024), pp. 251\u201355.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Eckard Smuts, \u2018Short Takes on Disjointed Times: Literary Form and Social Thought in Graham K. Riach\u2019s The Short Story After Apartheid<\/em>\u2019<\/a>, Safundi<\/em> (2024), pp. 361-369 (DOI: 10.1080\/17533171.2024.2375848)<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Timothy Wright, \u2018A Formalist in the Trenches: Graham K. Riach\u2019s The Short Story After Apartheid<\/em>\u2019<\/a>, Safundi<\/em> (2024), pp. 370-77 (DOI: 10.1080\/17533171.2024.2375837)<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u2019s \u2018Can the Subaltern Speak?\u2019<\/em><\/a> (London: Routledge, 2017)<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n

Articles <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Please feel free to contact me for copies of these if unavailable to you)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Clouded Memories: Alzheimer\u2019s and Archival Prosthesis in Rachel Heng\u2019s \u201cThe Rememberers\u201d and Naoko Nobutomo\u2019s I Go Gaga, My Dear<\/em>\u2019, Recherche litt\u00e9raire\/Literary Research<\/em>, (Commissioned for 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018World, Self, Environment: Ecocritical Affordances in Yves Bonnefoy and Michel Henry\u2019<\/a>, Nordic Journal of Francophone Studies<\/em>, 9.1 (2026), pp. 1-14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Opaque Poetics in Salvador Plascencia\u2019s The People of Paper<\/em><\/a>\u2019, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction<\/em>, 62, 4 (2021), pp. 404-413<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Henrietta Rose-Innes and the Politics of Space\u2019<\/a>, Journal of Commonwealth Literature<\/em>, 55, 1 (2020), pp. 22-37<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018\u201cConcrete Fragments\u201d: Interview with Henrietta Rose-Inne<\/a>s\u2019, Journal of Commonwealth Literature<\/em>, 55, 1 (2020), pp. 111-120<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Late Nadine Gordimer<\/a>\u2019, Journal of Southern African Studies<\/em>, 42, 6 (2016), pp. 1077-1094<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awarded the Terence Ranger Prize<\/strong> for the best article by an early career author<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Sticking Together: Ivan Vladislavi\u0107\u2019s Collage Practice<\/a>\u2019, Safundi<\/em>, 16, 1 (2015), pp. 78-95<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Chapters <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Please feel free to contact me for copies of these if unavailable to you)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Phaswane Mpe\u2019s Lyrical Brooding\u2019, Critical Perspectives on K. Sello Duiker, Phaswane Mpe, Yvonne Vera and Dambudzo Marechera<\/em> (London: Bloomsbury 2028 Commissioned)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Modernism and Music in South Africa\u2019, South African Modernism <\/em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (Forthcoming 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018J.M. Coetzee and the Work of Music\u2019, The Bloomsbury Companion to J.M. Coetzee <\/a><\/em>(London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 407-414<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Myth, Orality, and the African Novel<\/a>\u2019, Cambridge Critical Concepts: Magical Realism and Literature <\/em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 148-163<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Ways of Staying, Ways of Saying: From Black Writing in Britain to Black British Writing\u2019, The 1960s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction<\/a><\/em>, ed. by James Riley, Melanie Seddon, Phil Tew (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 137-164<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018\u201cAnodyne\u201d Cambridge History Still Hits the Mark\u2019, <\/a>review of The Cambridge History of South African Literature<\/em>, SLiPNET<\/em>, 2012 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Books The Short Story After Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023) Awards Honourable Mention at the British Association for Contemporary Literature Monograph Prize Reviews Michael Chapman, \u2018The Short Story in South Africa: \u201cThinking with Form\u201d\u2019, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37,1 (2025), pp 29\u201338 Marta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t