Selected Citations

Ingrid’s poetry is regularly taught at South Africa universities and schools and also has been or is being taught at universities and colleges in Canada, the USA and elsewhere in the world. A number of PhD and other theses on her work have appeared. Her work is referred to, sometimes briefly, sometimes at length, in various articles and books. A random selection, not up to date, appears below.

Colin Gardner, Negotiating Poetry: A New Poetry for a New South Africa. Theoria: A Journal of Studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 77, (1991 May).

Mary DeShazar, A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa and the United States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1994.

Rob Nixon, Aftermaths. Transition, No. 72 (1996).

Rita Barnard, Another Country: Amnesia and Memory in Contemporary South Africa. Postmodern Culture, Vol 9, Number 1, September (1998).

Anneleen de Jong, Portraying a Story: The Narrative Function of the Human Form in Contemporary Art of South Africa. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 31, No. 4, Poetics of African Art (Winter 2000).

Loren Kruger, Review (untitled). Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995 | Negotiating the past: The Making of Memory in South Africa. Modern Philology, Vol. 97, No. 4 (May, 2000).

K. Price, Christiania Whitehead, Deborah Garrison, Ingrid de Kok. PN Review, Vol 26, Part 5, (2000).

Kwame Dawes, Review. ‘Ten South African Poets’ by Adam Schwartzman, World Literature Today, Vol 75, No 3/4 (Summer-Autumn 2001).

Dirk Klopper, Narrative Time and the Space of the Image: The Truth of the Lie in Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s Testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Poetics Today, Volume 22, Number 2, (Summer 2001).

Ralph Pordzik, Nationalism, Cross-Culturalism, and Utopian Vision in South African Utopian and Dystopian Writing 1972-92. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 32, No. 3, Nationalism (Autumn 2001).

Shane Graham, “Apartheid Prison Narrative, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the construction of national (traumatic) memory,” in Graeme Harper, ed. Colonial and post-Colonial Incarceration, New York: Continuum, 2001.

Gina Whisker, “A Gesture of Belonging: Creativity and Place in South African Women’s Writing, in Nahem Yousaf, ed. Apartheid Narratives, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001.

Anthony O’Brien, Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa, Duke University Press, 2001.

Simon Lewis, Review: [untitled]. Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa, ed. Anthony O’Brien. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 2002).

Shane Graham, The Truth Commission and Post-Apartheid Literature in South Africa. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring, 2003).

Helen Kapstein, Review: Outsider Theory: A North American Academic Reads South Africa. Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa, Anthony O’Brien. Contemporary Literature, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Autumn 2003).

Charles Sugnet, Review. Africa Today, Vol. 50, No. 2, Oral Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge, (Autumn – Winter, 2003).

Annie Gagiano, Adapting the National Imaginary: Shifting Identities in Three Post-1994 South African Novels. Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4, Special Issue: Writing Transition in South Africa: Fiction, History, Biography (Dec, 2004).

Sam Durrant, ‘The invention of mourning in post-apartheid literature’. Third World Quarterly, Vol 26, No 3, (2005).

Rajeev Sridhar Patke, Postcolonial Poetry in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Charles M. Anderson, An Arrival, A Departure, A Narrative that Continues to Emerge. Literature and Medicine, 26.2 (Fall 2007).

Brophy, Sarah, Spearey, Eileen. ‘Compassionate Leave’? HIV/AIDS and Collective Responsibility in Ingrid de Kok’s Terrestrial Things. Literature and Medicine, 26, No. 2 (Fall 2007).

Arjun Ghosh, Review (untitled). Postcolonial Text, Vol 3, No 3 (2007).

Susan Eileen Spearey, “May the unfixable broken bone/ … give us new bearings”: Ethics, Affect and Irresolution in Ingrid de Kok’s A Room Full of Questions. Postcolonial Text, Vol. 4. No. 1 (2008).

Jane Wilkinson, Revisioning the Child: Mourning and Survival in poems by Ingrid Jonker, Ingrid de Kok and Karen Press. Working and Writing for tomorrow: Essays in Honour of Itala Vivan, eds. A Oboe, C Gualtieri and R Bromley, Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, Nottingham, 2008.

Shane Graham, “Words that Look like Acts: Ingrid de Kok’s Transfer and Terrestrial  Things,” in South African Literature after the Truth Commission. New York: Palgrave, 2009.

David Alvarez, “Come, however briefly, in.’ Ambivalent hospitality in Ingrid de Kok’s poetry” in Re-membering hospitality in the Mediterranean, eds. Yasser elhariry and others, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

Joseph Luzzi, The Innocenti of Florence: The Discovery of Childhood in the Renaissance, WW Norton and Company, 2025.

Vidyan Ravinthiran, “Victim and Accused,” Granta 154 (Winter 2021), and in Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir, Icon UK and Norton, USA, 2025.

Esterino Adami, Postcolonial Stylistics, Routledge, 2025.