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In this critical study, Dorothy Diver discusses the way Head's writings - novels, short stories, letters, sketches, essays, reviews - address the ethical and spiritual difficulties of life in societies riven in one way or another by social and racial divisions and hierarchies that held people back from achieving their full humanity. Head's spirited and uniquely personal critique of what it means to be 'African' and 'female' in a postcolonial world is shown to engage with the possibilities for moving beyond such categories.

The 1987 publication of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town won Zoe Wicomb an international readership and wide critical acclaim. As richly imagined and stylistically innovative as Wicomb's debut work, David's Story is a mesmerizing novel, multilayered and multivoiced, at times elegiac, wry, and expansive.

Unfolding in South Africa at the moment of Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1991, the novel explores the life and vision of David Dirkse, part of the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement--a world seldom revealed to outsiders....