A selection of works by Professor Bheki Peterson
Books authored or co-authored by Bheki Peterson
O With Benjy Francis and Essop Patel: Fragments in the Sun: Poems and Performance Text (Afrika Cultural Centre, 1985).
O With Ramadan Suleman, Zulu Love Letter (Wits University Press,
2009).
O With Benjy Francis: The Creative Act: A Notebook on Community Playmaking, (Afrika Cultural Centre, 1990).
O Edited by Bheki Peterson: Fools by Njabulo S Ndebele (Francolin Publishers, 1997).
O Monarchs, Missionaries and African Intellectuals: African Theatre and the Unmaking of Colonial Marginality (Wits University Press, 2000/Africa World Press, 2000).
O Edited with Janet Remmington and Brian Willan: Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present (Wits University Press, 2016).
Journal Special Issues
O Co-edited with Anette Horn: Es’kia Mphahlele: Teacher and Mentor, special issue of English in Africa, 32 (2), August 2011
O Texts, Modes and Repertoires of Living In and Beyond the Shadows of Apartheid, special issue of Journal of the African Literature Association, 10 (1), 2016.
O With Jill Bradbury: Narrative Articulations in Africa, special issue of Social Dynamics, 45 (3), 2019.
Journal Articles
O The Problem with ‘Coconuttiness’ in Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 25, 2013, 111-113.
O Otelo Burning in Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26, (3), 2014, 341-344.
O Review article of the Mark Fleishman-edited Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa in Journal of Contemporary Drama in Africa, 5 (1), 2017.
O Imagining and appreciating ‘the long eye of history’: race, form and representation in Drum magazine’s serialisation of wild conquest in Social Dynamics, 45 (1), 2019.
O With Jill Bradbury:
Introduction: Narrative articulations in Africa, Social Dynamics, 45 (3), 2019.
O Spectrality and inter-generational black narratives in South Africa, Social Dynamics, 45 (3), 2019.
O Review article of the Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W Harrowedited Rethinking African Cultural Production in African Studies Review, 63 (3),
2020.
Creative Works Films:
O Fools (1997, writer, producer)
O Zulu Love
Letter (2004, writer, associate producer)
O Rights of Passage (2015, producer)
O The Innovation of Loneliness (2017, producer)
Documentaries:
O Born into Struggle (2004, producer)
O Zwelidumile (2010, writer, producer)
O The Battle for Johannesburg (2010, writer, producer)
O Miners Shot Down (2014, consulting producer)
O By Any Means Necessary (2019, writer,
producer)
This abridged bibliography excludes a long list of books to which Bheki Peterson contributed chapters. It was compiled by the Archive and Public Culture
research initiative