This is a general issue. Submissions, however, permit groupings that suggest something of the range and diversity of genre-study under the rubric South African Literature or, more broadly, Southern African Literature. Voss reviews two books on Bushman/San expression, ‘literary’ and ‘social’, if indeed such distinctions had meaning for the First People of the region, or meaning for their descendants today. What remains ‘current’ from the past? Kaschula looks backwards and forwards to the significance of praises to Nelson Mandela. From the oral to the written, Mthatiwa and Chapman revalue, from a current perspective, two very different ‘white’ poets, the British expatriate in Malawi, David Kerr, and the South African (is he really South African?) poet’s poet, the enigmatic Sydney Clouts. The novel form also provides unusual comparisons. Gumede subjects the contemporary Zulu novelist, LPMolefe, to a ‘counter-patriarchal’ reading while Dimitriu considers whether JM Coetzee’s The Schooldays of Jesus is a novelistic or philosophical discourse, or an in-between text: a novel of ideas. Since its inception Current Writing has wished to explore boundaries, whether aesthetic or theoretical, and Barendse turns to the relatively recent, at least in South Africa, human-animal interaction in literature. To conclude the issue, the internationally renowned poet and commentator Antjie Krog raises provocative questions on how “to write liberty”. Current Writing 30 (2), 2018, is a ‘theme’ issue, The Ethics of Memory in the Writing of PostApartheid South Africa, edited by Judith Lütge Coullie. No further submissions are invited. Current Writing 31 (1), 2019, is a general issue.

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这是一个普遍的问题。然而，提交的内容允许分组表明南非文学或更广泛的南部非洲文学标题下的体裁研究的范围和多样性。沃斯评论了两本关于布须曼人/桑人表达的书，“文学”和“社会”，如果这些区别确实对该地区的原住民有意义，或者对他们今天的后代有意义。什么是过去的“当前”？卡舒拉前后回顾了赞美纳尔逊·曼德拉的意义。从口头到书面，姆塔蒂瓦和查普曼从当前的角度重新评价了两位截然不同的“白人”诗人，即移居马拉维的英国人大卫·克尔和南非（他真的是南非人吗？）诗人的诗人，神秘的悉尼影响力。新颖的形式还提供了不同寻常的比较。古梅德让当代祖鲁小说家 LPMolefe 接受“反家长式”阅读，而迪米特留则考虑 JM 库切的《耶稣的学生时代》是小说还是哲学话语，还是介于两者之间的文本：思想小说。自成立以来，Current Writing 一直希望探索边界，无论是美学的还是理论的，Barendse 转向相对较新的文学，至少在南非，文学中的人与动物的互动。最后，国际知名诗人兼评论家安杰·克罗格提出了如何“书写自由”的挑衅性问题。Current Writing 30 (2)，2018 年，是一个“主题”问题，《南非种族隔离后写作中的记忆伦理》，由 Judith Lütge Coullie 编辑。不再邀请进一步提交。Current Writing 31 (1), 2019，是一个普遍问题。