This collection of essays includes a variety of approaches to different interpretations of ‘space’. Some deal with aspects of (post)colonialism, mapping, and identity formation, while others grapple with the positionality of ‘in between’ as well as with issues of multiculturalism and intertextuality. The spaces of art, beliefs and institutions are examined, as are the intellectual and artistic activities involved in articulating and defining space. It is a book of tendencies, which gives some indication of the new work being done in South Africa as well as in the broader global context, and reflects different moments of conflict and negotiation within the social relations of different societies from pre-apartheid South Africa to the present. The essays chosen for this volume broach the fantastic and sexual dimensions of cultural spaces and cultural production, issues of marginality and power, hybridity, gender identity, ideology and technology.

The Editors: Rita Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She has published on contemporary Italian narrative and women’s writing. Carlotta von Maltzan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She has published on Heiner Müller, Klaus Mann and contemporary German literature.