Abstract
This article examines the choices some South African authors have made as regards
the setting and style of their writing, and the implications of these choices. It looks in
some detail at Johan Vlok Louw’s Karoo Dusk (2014), and concludes with a brief
look at Steven Boykey Sidley’s latest novel, Free Association (2017). The article was
written with the current calls for decolonising the university curriculum in mind. It
speculates about what a decolonised South African literature would be like and
whether or not this is even possible. It argues that the global marketplace and
increasingly borderless nature of modern culture are likely to be forces that the
decolonisers will be unable to resist.