Bøker av Barbara Boswell

An instant classic, the lies and betrayals of love and party politics are told in gorgeous prose with an ear for our time's intimate and public language. The Comrade's Wife follows a turbulent marriage between a rising politician and an academic, told through her life and lens.

Lauretta Ngcobo's death in November 2015 robbed South Africa and the African continent of a significant literary talent, freedom fighter, and feminist voice. This new addition to Voices of Liberation, serves as of a mapping of Ngcobo's life, as well as some of her key texts.

Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent black female writers. Studying these writers' key engagements with nationalism, race and gender during apartheid and the transition to democracy, Barbara Boswell traces the ways in which black women's fiction critically interrogates narrow ideas of nationalism.