This text explores the interaction of the discourses of literature and history in Mongane Serote's "Gods of Our Time", Mike Nicol's "The Ibis Tapestry" and Zakes Mda's "Ways of Dying".

An interdisciplinary encounter between new materialist and object-oriented studies and literary criticism. Through a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each other in mutually productive ways. Focusing on how the study of literature is an underdeveloped field within 'the material turn', the introduction and each of the eleven chapters examine ways in which new materialist and object-oriented theory opens the study of literature in new ways just as they...