| Abstract: | After defining the criteria for considering African writing the author indicates five main African themes about which modern Africans are writing about. These themes have a striking difference with those that have preoccupied Europe and America over roughly the same period One European theme that has no place in African literature is that of the problem of communication itself. Analysing the works of the best known African writers the author contends that apart from a very few notable exceptions imaginative African writing in South Africa is overwhelmingly a proletarian literature in a society r; where colour and class are identified. With regard to politics: in African literature politics does not occur as a vulgar interruption of the more exalted pursuits of life, but as fate. |
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