<p>‘(T)his is a capacious and idea-filled study with an overarching organizational structure that is almost architectural in its detail and sophistication.’ Timothy Wright, Safundi</p>

<p>‘A genre that has been, if not absent then at least conspicuously peripheral to the critical project of making sense of South Africa’s temporally discombobulated present, is the short story. Fortunately, Graham K. Riach’s superb new monograph, <em>The Short Story After Apartheid</em> ..., has now arrived to address that oversight. In a series of lucid, socially informed and technically astute close readings of curated selections of stories by five eminent South African practitioners of the craft - Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes - Riach demonstrates how paying attention to matters of form in short fiction can “shape the reader’s orientation to the world outside the text.”’</p> <p>Eckard Smuts, <strong>Safundi</strong></p>

<p>'With this generic and formal focus, the monograph proves extremely useful for specialists of the short story and for readers of South African (and more largely post-colonial) literature alike, in that it provides deep reflections on the genre, while considerably enriching the way in which post-apartheid, and even earlier South African fiction has so far been read.' Mathilde Rogez, <em>Journal of the Short Story in English</em></p>