Chronologically the collection ranges from the 1920s to the twenty first century. And there is also a selection of vibrant newer voices: Makhosazana Xaba, Nadia Davids, Mary Watson, Lindiwe Nkutha, Wamuwi Mbao and Kobus Moolman. Dhlomo, Can Themba, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Dan Jacobson, Miriam Tlali, Ahmed Essop, Njabulo Ndebele, Mandla Langa, Chris van Wyk, Damon Galgut, Achmat Dangor and Zoe Wicomb. Amongst the twenty-two contributors are some of our best-known short story writers: Pauline Smith, Herman Charles Bosman, H.I. Cumulatively their stories tell of a history tainted by misrecognition but not, finally, bound by it. The writers whose stories have been selected use the transformative power of the imagination and the unique appeal of the short story to illuminate aspects of our past and present. Recognition is an exciting anthology of short stories in which twenty-two South African writers render these intricate connections. There is a long history of division but also of profound (and often surprising) instances of mutual recognition. The lives of South Africans have always been interwoven in complex ways.
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