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The article presents a survey of English literature in South Africa since the dismantling of political apartheid. The author's stated purpose is to discover common literary themes in literature produced in the decade following the end of apartheid. The author contends there is a sense of literary creativity unfulfilled and that the themes of truth and reconciliation that are discerned in the literature are incompatible with trends in South African society.

This article examines the use of the words "I," "me" and "mine" in autobiographical fiction. It discusses the emergence of South African writers exploring the borders of fact and fiction, the use of facts to arrive at the truth and the use of fiction or more accurately fictional elements to enable facts to arrive at the truth.