| Southern African Literatures M Chapman Longman/University of Natal Press, 1996 | 602 | 1996 |
| The'Drum'decade: Stories from the 1950s M Chapman (No Title), 2001 | 170 | 2001 |
| Soweto poetry M Chapman McGraw-Hill, 1982 | 88 | 1982 |
| The problem of identity: South Africa, storytelling, and literary history M Chapman New Literary History 29 (1), 85-99, 1998 | 62 | 1998 |
| South African English poetry: a modern perspective M Chapman Ad. Donker, 1984 | 58 | 1984 |
| A century of South African poetry M Chapman Donker, 1981 | 57 | 1981 |
| The New Century of South African Poetry M Chapman Ad Donker, 2002 | 54 | 2002 |
| More than telling a story: Drum and its significance in Black South African writing M Chapman The Drum Decade: Stories from the 1950s, 183-232, 1989 | 53 | 1989 |
| Art talk, politics talk: A consideration of categories MJF Chapman University of Kwazulu Natal Press, 2006 | 47 | 2006 |
| African Poems of Thomas Pringle E Pereira, M Chapman | 47* | 1989 |
| Introduction: Conjectures on South African Literature M Chapman Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 21 (1-2), 1-23, 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
| African literature, African literatures: Cultural practice or art practice? M Chapman Research in African Literatures 34 (1), 1-10, 2003 | 37 | 2003 |
| Voices from within: black poetry from Southern Africa M Chapman, A Dangor Ad Donker Publishers, 1982 | 37 | 1982 |
| The writing of politics and the politics of writing on reading Dovey on reading Lacan on reading Coetzee on reading...(?) M Chapman Journal of Literary Studies 4 (3), 327-341, 1988 | 35 | 1988 |
| The Paperbook of South African English Poetry M Chapman Ad. Donker, 1986 | 34 | 1986 |
| SA Lit: Beyond 2000 M Chapman, M Lenta University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011 | 31 | 2011 |
| The case of Coetzee: South African literary criticism, 1990 to today M Chapman JLS/TLW 26 (2), 103-117, 2010 | 26 | 2010 |
| The liberated zone: the possibilities of imaginative expression in a state of emergency M Chapman The English Academy Review 5 (1), 23-53, 1988 | 26 | 1988 |
| South Africa in the global neighbourhood: Towards a method of cultural analysis M Chapman Critical Arts 11 (1-2), 17-27, 1997 | 21 | 1997 |
| Postcolonial problematics: A South African case study M Chapman Research in African Literatures 42 (4), 60-71, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
