- Title
- Protest in fiction : an approach to Alex la Guma
- Creator
- Cornwell, David Gareth Napier
- Subject
- La Guma, Alex
- Subject
- South African literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism
- Subject
- Protest literature, South African (English) -- History and criticism
- Date Issued
- 1979
- Date
- 1979
- Type
- text
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:2169
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001820
- Description
- From Introduction: Thus for the black South African, the act of creative writing is inescapably a form of political action, and unless he turns his back on the reality which confronts him and retreats into a private imaginary world, it is also a form of social action, Yet Ezekiel Mphahlele has rightly cautioned that "creating an imaginary world" can never be an effective substitute for social act ion . Composing fictions about social and political problems is an indubitably oblique way of seeking a solution to them, and even the tendentious recreation of reality is only a metaphor for its actual transformation. Protest writing in South Africa is paradoxically a form of social action which is also only a parasitical imitation of social action, and therefore its avoidance . The freedom of literary creation described above is ambiguously not only a freedom to express reality, but also a freedom from the constraints of reality. And this suggests why the outlaw was such an important symbol to an earlier generation of rather more self-conscious writers.
- Format
- 214 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, English
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Cornwell, Gareth
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