Notes on Contributors

Rita Barnard is associate professor of English and director of Women's Studies and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance (1995) and of Apartheid, Literature, and the Politics of Place (forthcoming). She has published articles on South African literature in Research in African Literatures, Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, Interventions, Contemporary Literature, and Postmodern Cultures.

Patrick Bond is a professor in the University of the Witwatersrand's Graduate School of Public and Development Management, Johannesburg, and a visiting professor of political science at York University, Toronto. He is also associated with the Centre for Economic Justice in Johannesburg. His books include Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance (2003) and Talk Left, Walk Right: The Mbeki Regime as Accomplice to Empire (2004).

Ashwin Desai is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. He is the author of a number of books including We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2002).

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze is associate professor of philosophy at DePaul University. His teaching and research interests include modern African and modern European philosophy, social and political philosophy, philosophy and anthropology, postcolonial theory, and philosophy of race. He has edited several books, including African Philosophy: An Anthology (1998), Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader (1997), and Race and the Enlightenment (1997). He is the author of Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future (2001).

Grant Farred associate professor in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is author of Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (2000) and What's My Name: Black Vernacular Intellectuals (2003), and editor of the collection Rethinking C. L. R. James (1996).

Michiel Heyns is professor emeritus in English at the University of Stellenbosch. He has written two novels, The Children's Day (2002) and The Reluctant Passenger (2003), and has published widely on contemporary South African fiction and on the nineteenth-century English novel. He is the author of Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Scapegoat in English Realist Fiction (1994).

Shaun Irlam is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. His teaching and research interests include eighteenth-century cultural studies and aesthetics in England and France, current critical theory with an emphasis on deconstruction, and postcolonial literature and theory with emphasis on Caribbean and African literatures. He recently completed a book entitled Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999) that explores the fortunes of sentiment in British poetry and aesthetic theory after the Civil War. He has published most recently in ELH on colonial Caribbean landscape in the poetry of James Grainger.

Neil Lazarus is professor of English and comparative literatures at the University of Warwick. His publications include Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990), Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (1999), Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (2002), and Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (forthcoming).

Zine Magubane is an associate professor of sociology and African studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa (2004) and has published articles in the areas of gender, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and globalization. She is currently coediting a book on black women's experiences in the South African academy.

Michael Macdonald teaches in the Political Science Department at Williams College. He has published on political conflict in Northern Ireland and South Africa, and is the author of Children of Wrath: Political Violence in Northern Ireland and is finishing a manuscript entitled The Political Economy of Identity Politics: Citizenship, Race and Class in South Africa.

Richard Pithouse is a research fellow at the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South...