Ngcobo, Lauretta

About Lauretta Ngcobo

Biography (South African History Online)

Obituary (The Guardian)

Reviews

Graham, Lucy Valerie. “‘Utterly Divided’? The Feminist Perspectives of Lauretta Ngcobo and Olive Schreiner.” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

Boswell, Barbara, and Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi. “And She Didn’t Die: Celebrating Lauretta Ngcobo’s Life and Literary Legacy (1931–2015).” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

Daymond, M. J. “The Representation of MaBiyela in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die.” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

Timlin, Carrie. “The Politics of Motherhood: Reproductive Labour in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die.” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

Oyegoke, Lekan. “Aesthetics, Crosses of Yokes and Honour in Lauretta G. Ngcobo’s Cross of Gold.” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

de Villiers, Phillippa Yaa. “Expanding the Territory: Creative Reading Interventions in Lauretta Ngcobo’s Prodigal Daughters.” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

Moji, Polo Belina. “Prodi-Gals: Statelessness and Place-Lessness in Lauretta Ngcobo’s ‘The Prodigal Daughter’ (2012).” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

Masola, Athambile, and Makhosazana Xaba. “‘What Is a Place?’: Exploring Place and Displacement in Lauretta Ngcobo’s Novel Cross of Gold.” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

Interviews

Healy-Clancy, Meghan. “Interview with Lauretta Ngcobo (1931–2015).” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

Worsfold, Brian. “In Conversation with Lauretta Ngcobo.” BELLS: Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies, vol. 6, 1995

Criticism

Jacobs, J. U. “Chaotic Homecomings in Prodigal Daughters Edited by Lauretta Ngcobo, Always Another Country by Sisonke Msimang, and What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons.” Scrutiny2, vol. 24, no. 1, Mar. 2019

Hunter, Eva. “Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die (1990) in Post-Apartheid South Africa – a Critical Rereading.” Scrutiny2, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2017

Singha, Sukla. "From the Mnemonic to the Literary: Exploring Memory in Select Works of Robin S. Ngangom and Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih." Bharatiya Prajna, vol. 1, no. 3, 2017

and Lauretta Ngcobo’s Novels.” Gender, Place & Culture, vol. 23, no. 9, Sep. 2016

Akhuemokhan, Sophia I., and H.Oby Okolocha. “Pyramids and Prejudice: A Study of Cultural Discrimination in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die.” Legon Journal of the Humanities, Jan. 2015

Akhuemokhan, Sophie. “Distributive Justice and the Blind Continent: A Study ofCross of Gold by Lauretta Ngcobo and Osiris Rising by Ayi Kwei Armah.” ARIEL, vol. 39, no. 4, Oct. 2008

Etter-Lewis, Gwen. “Sites of Resistance: The Politics of Embodiment in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 2, no. 1, 2007

Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn. “Filled with Voice/Emptied of Self: Reading and Teaching African Feminist Consciousness in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 1, no. 1, 2007

Daymond, M. J. “'To Write beyond the 'Fact": Fictional Revision of Southern African Women in History by Yvonne Vera and Lauretta Ngcobo.” African Literature Today, vol. 24, 2004

Clayton, Cherry. “Rural Women and African Resistance: Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die.” Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture, Smith (ed.), 2000

Hunter, Eva. “‘We Have to Defend Ourselves’: Women, Tradition, and Change in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 13, no. 1, 1994

Hunter, Eva. “Tradition and Change in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die.” The African Past and Contemporary Culture, Reckwitz et al. (eds.), 1993

Farred, Grant. “‘Not Like Women at All’: Black Female Subjectivity in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die.” Genders, vol. 16, 1993

Jamir, Rosaline. "Reflections on the 'Feminine Cause' in Robin S. Ngangom's Poetry." International Journal on Multicultural Literature, vol. 2, no. 2, 2012

Works

Novel

And They Didn't Die (1990)

Cross of Gold (1981)

Short Story Collections

Prodigal Daughters (2012)

Children's and Young Adult Books

Fiki Learns to Like Other People (1994)