Reading the classics in South Africa

Abstract

This essay reflects on how we read the classics from our location in South Africa, in conversation with the other essays in the special issue. How do our reading spaces shape our reading and re-reading of classic works of literature which come to hold meaning for us? How is our “sense of discovery” of a classic work re-ignited by conversations, spoken and written? How do we
make, and re-make, connections between texts and contexts of reading, over time, and in different places?