From cane cutters and traders to citizens and writers / Felicity Hand and Esther Pujolras-Noguer -- Planted firmly in South African soil: literary recollections of indenture / Lindy Stiebel -- Daku or dukan? surviving within and without the Indian community of Durban / Felicity Hand -- The reception of Ahmed Essop in Spain: or, the race factor in the compared literary reception of contemporary South African writers in Spain / Juan Miguel Zarandona -- The madman in the garden: or, Achmat Dangor's search for the common literary origins of the distinct Muslim communities of South Africa in Kafka's curse (1997) / Salvador Faura -- Transformation and transnationalism in post-apartheid South Africa: Farida Karodia's Boundaries (2003) / Isabel Alonso-Breto -- At the crossroads of nowhere and everywhere: home, nation, and space in Shamim Sarif's The world unseen / Esther Pujolras-Noguer -- What memory resists: indenture, apartheid, and the 'memory-work' of reconstruction in Ronnie Govender's Black chin, white chin / Modhumita Roy.