Contributors

Stephen Clingman is Distinguished University Professor of English and former Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has held fellowships at a variety of institutions internationally, including Yale University, Cornell University, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His books include The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside and an edited collection of essays by Gordimer, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places, translated into a number of languages. Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary, a biography of the lawyer and political figure who led Nelson Mandela's defense at the Rivonia Trial, was co-winner of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, South Africa's premier prize for non-fiction. Stephen's most recent books are The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary and Birthmark.

Nigel C. Gibson is the author of Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (Polity Press, ) which won the Caribbean Philosophy Association Frantz Fanon Book Award and has been translated into Arabic and Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press and Palgrave, ). He is co-author (with Roberto Beneduce) of Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (University of Witwatersrand Press and Rowman and Littlefield International, ). He teaches at Emerson College and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Steven Groarke is Professor of Social Thought at Roehampton University, UK, a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and the author of Managed Lives . He has also published numerous articles on psychoanalysis and philosophical psychology.