MONICA POPESCU Assistant Professor in the Department of English at McGill University, USA.

Winner of the 2012 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities! '...groundbreaking study...What strikes one immediately, given Popescu's deft exploration of the psychological impact of Eastern European and Cold War politics and their position within the South African imaginary, is that no one has, given the abundance of literary examples that Popescu cites, made the connection before now -but such is also a testament to the quality and readability of Popescu's study.' -Laura Wright, Western Carolina University, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies '..illuminating and thoroughly engaging work of literary and cultural criticism...' -Modern Language Quarterly

• Introduction: Eastern Europe in the South African Cultural ImaginaryRevolution and Transformation: Alex La Guma's Models of DecolonizationInterregnum and Narrative Confusion: Zoë Wicomb and the South African Historiography of the Early 1990sTransition Intertexts: J. M. Coetzee and the Nineteenth-Century Russian WritersCultures in Translation: Ivan Vladislavic and the Itinerant Imagery of the 1990s FictionNadine Gordimer and the End of Apartheid in a Global PerspectiveConclusion