Transformations: Essays

The essays in "Transformations" were shortlisted for the 2013 University of Johannesburg prize for best creative work.
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Title: Transformations. Essays
Author: Imraan Coovadia
Genre: Essays on South African topics
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Umuzi
Cape Town, South Africa 2012
ISBN 9781415201381 / ISBN 978-1-4152-0138-1
Softcover, 15 x 22 cm, 208 pages

Description:

What does Playboy have to do with Nabokov’s infamous novel Lolita and his obsession with a butterfly? Why is Shrien Dewani looking so cheap? And what can Ovid’s Metamorphosis show us about contemporary South African society? The essays are on writing, politics and culture from a South African perspective. Written with his signature wit, and with subjects ranging from vuvuzelas to J. M. Coetzee, Tolstoy to Mbeki, Coovadia’s essays cast a wide net and, like literature and the country, never fail to surprise.

Content: Transformations. Essays

Introduction: Against the Book
Coetzee in (and out of) Cape Town
How to Read Lolita
The Azan Clock
Transformation - Three Concepts
Entanglement
Midnight's Children (in South Africa)
Diary of a Bad Year: Mbeki's 2007 Letters to the Nation
How They See Us
Alan Paton, the Hero of Currie Road
Curveball
Vuvuzela!
One of Us
Cheapskate
George Eliot's Realism and Adam Smith
Tolstoy Against Literature
Notes