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Writingi'c,trcnl viiil Wyk 'Popular Memory' and Social Change in South African liistorical Drama of the Seventies in English: the Case of Credo Mutwzi'!; ufisilirnela-Sikhutrzhuzo Mngadi Towards an Anthropology o?. Wr~tlng-Alun Thoroltl A Rr~cf Cfvervlew of Zulu Orrd Traditions-Noleen Turner The Writings of H.F. Fynn: History, Myth or Fiction?-Jc~lie Pridnlorr This is the first issue of ALTERNATION, the journal of the Gentre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages (CSSALL). The Centre was established at the beginning of I994 at the University of Durban-Westville with the purpose of promoting an interdisciplinary study of the great variety of southern African literatures and languages. Besides being a research centre, the CSSALL offers a course-work Masters degree which provides a systematic knowledge of the literary history and languages of the region. The Centre is also committed to hosting a biennial conference on southern African iiterary and language studies. As Helize van Vuuren demonstrates in her paper included in this volume, the discourses of colonialism and apartheid have led to the radical 'segmentation of South African literature and literary studies'. In the first historical surveys written in a period marked by the construction of an inclusive settler nationalism, the focus is on what J.M. Coetzee has called