Laurence Wright
Laurence Wright is an Extraordinary Professor in the Languages and Literature Research Entity at North-West University. He was formerly H.A. Molteno Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA) at Rhodes University. He was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Senior Research Medal in 2009. A member of the South African Academy of Science, a Rhodes Scholar and a Commonwealth Scholar, he is also a Gold Medalist and Fellow of the English Academy of Southern Africa, and Honorary Life President of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa.
Undoing the strange tragedy of Black Hamlet
2025-05-19"Two new books add to the published oeuvre of South Africa’s pioneering psychoanalyst, Wulf Sachs [who] was out to demonstrate two things. First, that black urban migrants were in a terrible plight, not of their making, and one with which they were lamentably ill-equipped to cope. And, secondly, that the exciting new thought package of Freudianism successfully straddled the apparent crevasse between Western modernity and African traditionalism."