Introduction: Eastern Europe in the South African cultural imaginary -- Revolution and transformation : Alex La Guma's models of decolonization -- Interregnum and narrative confusion : Zoë Wicomb and the South African historiography of the early 1990s -- Transition intertexts : J. M. Coetzee and the nineteenth-century Russian writers -- Cultures in translation : Ivan Vladislavić and the itinerant imagery of the 1990s fiction -- Nadine Gordimer and the end of apartheid in a global perspective -- Conclusion.
