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Themba, Candoise (Can)
About Candoise (Can) Themba
Biography (South African History Online)
Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Sosibo, Kwanele. “Discovering the World of Can Themba.” Mail&Guardian, 31 Aug. 2018
Boshimane, Pearl. "Can Themba and Sophiatown: A Story of Defiance and Defeat in the 'Paris of Transvaal‘.“ Sunday Times, 29 Jan. 2017
Balogun, F. Odun. “Can Themba.” Contemporary African Writers, 2011
Criticism
D’Abdon, Raphael. “‘All Futures Are Bred in the Bellies of Their Past’: Siphiwo Mahala’s, Zukiswa Wanner’s and Makhosazana Xaba’s Intertextual Dialogues with Can Themba’s Short Story The Suit.” English in Africa, vol. 46, no. 2, 2019
Lelliott, Kitso Lynn. “The Tailored Suit: Re-Membering and Gendering Can Themba’s The Suit.” Black Camera, vol. 9, no. 2, 2018
Hooper, Myrtle. “Can Themba, Jean Hart and Crepuscule: Remembering Sophiatown.” English Academy Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 2017
Stobie, Cheryl. “Re-Tailoring Can Themba’s ‘The Suit’: Queer Temporalities in Two Stories by Makhosazana Xaba.” Current Writing, vol. 29, no. 2, 2017
Williams, Michael. “African (and Some Other) Oppressions.” English Academy Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 2017
Lukhele, Francis. “Jacket(Ed) and Suit(Ably) Coat(Ed): Swazi Masculine Sartorial Performances.” Critical Arts, vol. 31, no. 3, 2017
Mathebe, Lucky. “Ideology and the Crisis of Affiliation and Association in the Professional Life and Career of the Drum School Writer, Can Themba (1924–1968).” South African Review of Sociology, vol. 47, no. 2, 2016
Samuelson, Meg. “The Urban Palimpsest: Re-Presenting Sophiatown.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 44, no. 1, 2008
Chapman, Michael. Art Talk, Politics Talk: A Consideration of Categories, 2006
Chapman, Michael. “African Popular Fiction: Consideration of a Category.” English in Africa, vol. 26, no. 2, 1999
Short Story Collections
Requiem for Sophiatown (2006)
The World of Can Themba (1985)
The Will to Die (1972)
The Suit (1963)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“The Boy with the Tennis Racquet.” The New Classic, vol. 2, no. 1, 1966
Adaptations
“The Suit.” Shortfilm Adapted and Directed by Jarryd Coatsee, 16 Jun. 2016
Themba, Can, et al. Deep Cuts: Graphic Adaptions of Stories by Can Themba, Esterhuysen (ed.), 1993
“The Suit.” Stage Adaptation by Barney Simon and Mothobi Mutloatse, 1994
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Writer and Journalist Can Themba Remembered. YouTube, 30 Sep. 2017
Crepuscule by Market Theatre Foundation. YouTube, 19 Jan. 2016