Censors -- Publishers -- Writers -- Nadine Gordimer and the strength of the African novel -- Afrikan versus Volks humanism: Es'kia Mphahlele's worldly music and the transcendent space of culture -- Connected versus internal critics:Breytenbach, Leroux, and the Volk avant-garde -- BLAC books, black (anti-)poetics -- J.M. Coetzee: the provincial storyteller -- Protest and beyond: third world people's stories in the Staffrider series.