Table of Contents

Introduction: Reflections from the cracked looking glass - Imraan Coovadia, Alex Dodd, Coilin Parsons; The marvels of the ingenious knight Don Quixote de la Mancha - Andre Brink; Rereading Blake's lyric 'Never seek to tell thy love' - John Higgins; How Hamlet became modern - Sandra Young; These things do happen - William Kentridge; The process of Shembe music - Neo Muyanga; A page - Gabeba Baderoon, Rustum Kozain, Henrietta Rose-Innes; Haunted by waters - Duncan Brown; Syntactic structures: Noam Chomsky and the Colourless green revolution in language studies - Raj Mesthrie; The space between: Ways of looking at the art of Xu Bing - Peter McDonald; An inconvenient truth: Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx - Zackie Achmat; W.E.B. du Bois's black reconstruction - Nicholas Mirzoeff; Gandhi's Hind Swaraj - Isabel Hofmeyr; Nothing extraordinary: E.M. Forster and the English limit - Hedley Twidle; How to read Lolita - Imraan Coovadia; The dead in the world: James Joyce's travelling text - Coilin Parsons.

About the Author

Imraan Coovadia is a writer and director of the creative writing programme at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Alexandra Dodd is an independent writer and editor at the interface between literary and visual culture.

Coilin Parsons is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA.