Gerald Gaylard is a Professor of English at the University of the Witwatersrand. Author of After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism (2006) and editor of Marginal Spaces: Reading Ivan Vladislavic (2011), he has published primarily in the area of postcolonial culture, literature and aesthetics. His new monograph, At Home with Ivan Vladislavic: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City, is the first comprehensive analysis of this writer's works.