Rediscovery of the Ordinary

Njabulo S. Ndebele's essays on South African literature and culture initially appeared in various publications in the 1980s. They encompass a period of trauma, defiance, and change the decade of the collapse of apartheid and the challenge of reconstructing a future.

In 1991, the essays were collected under the current title of Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South African...