Notes on Contributors

D EREK A TTRIDGE is Professor of English and Related Literature at the Uni- versity of York. Among his books are J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Read- ing: Literature in the Event (2004), The Singularity of Literature (2004), and Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction’s Traces (2010), and, as co- editor, Writing : Literature, Apartheid and Democracy 1970– 1995 (1998) and The Cambridge History of (co- edited with David Attwell, 2012). D AVID A TTWELL is Professor of English at the University of York. His books include J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing (1993) and Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992). More recently he has pub- lished Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History (2005, 2006), Bury Me at the Marketplace: Es’kia Mphahlele and Company, Letters 1946–2006 (co-edited with N. Chabani Manganyi, 2010), and The Cambridge History of South African Literature (co-edited with Derek At- tridge, 2012). E LLEKE BOEHMER, Professor of World Literature in English at the , stands watchfully if warily at the interesting interface between creative and critical practice. She is the author of four acclaimed novels, Screens against the Sky (short-listed for the David Hyam Prize, 1990), An Immaculate Figure (1993), Bloodlines (short-listed for the SANLAM award, 2000), and Nile Baby (2008), as well as the short-story collection Sharmilla and Other Portraits (2010). Her other books include Colonial and Postcolo- nial Literature (1995, 2005), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890–1920 (2002), Stories of Women (2005), and the biography (2008). She edited Robert Baden–Powell’s Scouting for Boys (2004), and the anthology Empire Writing (1998), and co-edited J.M. Coet- zee in Context and Theory (2009), Terror and the Postcolonial (2009), and The Indian Postcolonial (2010). She is currently working on a memoir fiction. 380 TRAUMA, MEMORY, AND NARRATIVE a

MICHELA BORZAGA studied English at Salzburg, Belfast, and Stellenbosch and is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on trauma and the con- temporary South African novel at the University of Vienna. She co-edited Imagination in a Troubled Space: A Poetry Reader (2004) and Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews (2009). CARMEN CONCILIO is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Lite- rature at the University of Turin, Italy. She has published a range of essays on contemporary South African fiction. She has translated J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron into Italian (Rome: Donzelli, 1995) and Ivan Vladislaviü’s Johannes- burg: Street Addresses (Turin: Tirrenia, 2007). She also contributed to and co-edited the volume J.M. Coetzee: Percorsi di lettura tra storia e narrazione (2009). VILASHINI COOPPAN is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has also taught at Yale University and at the University of the Western Cape. She has published numerous essays and articles on and theory, comparative literature, and world literature, with a focus on nationalism, globalization, psychoanalysis, and literary genre theory. She is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing (2009) and is currently at work on a new book entitled ‘Race,’ Writing, and the Literary World-System. GEOFFREY V. D AVIS has recently retired from the University of Aachen, Germany. He read Modern Languages at Oxford, and wrote his doctorate on East German literature at the University of Aachen and his Habilitation at the University of Essen with a thesis entitled Voices of Justice and Reason: Apartheid and Beyond in South African Literature. His recent publications include the co-edited volumes Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (2006), Indigeneity: Representation and Interpretation (2009), and Voice and Memory: Indigenous Imagination and Expression (2011). He has recently been working with the Bhasha Research Centre in Baroda (India) and on the civil society Zimbabwe Initiative in Lon- don. He is co-editor of the series Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/ Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English and of the African studies series Matatu (both Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi). He is the current chair of the European branch of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS).