San Antonio College Library

"African novels are not easy reading. The African novel differs from European and American novels in its social and historical background and in its aesthetics. African novelists make important use of formal strategies and techniques that are derived from African cultural traditions. They also make extensive use of imported European forms. As Booker explains, the African novel is a hybrid of African and imported Western literary conventions. Proper...

"In the 1980s, South African literary debates were preoccupied with the issue of political responsibility and various aspects of literary texts were largely ignored. By focusing on the predicament of literary writing in times of historical turmoil, Writing in Crisis investigates three central apartheid-era texts that attempt to engage a cultural form and deviate from it at the same time." "For students and scholars, Writing in Crisis is an accessible...