Andrea Thorpe is a member of the Intersecting Diasporas Research Group in the Department of Literary Studies in English at Rhodes University, South Africa.
'In this rich and engaging new study, Andrea Thorpe offers us the perspectives of those for whom London was variously a lens to view the world [...] The book is sharply cognisant of the production of 'South African' writing and writers in London and how this was racially structured [...] there is much in Thorpe's work for scholars of South African history and writing, London and urban histories, exile, modernity, and transnational movements.' Anne Macguire, The London Journal 'Thorpe's re-evaluation of South African writing as London writing holds political as well as scholarly importance.' Hayley G. Toth, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 'South African London is a well-conceived and engaging book, providing informed and insightful readings that nuance the contrapuntal paradigm of exilic writing. It makes a valuable contribution to South African literary history, as well as to the literature of London and to Diaspora Studies.' Peter Blair, Modern Language Review -- .