Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Page 49
... African writers . The criticism she makes of Nadine Gordimer's work is that it is cold and humourless . Gordimer has been likened to a skilled surgeon operating with a scalpel . Perhaps Gordimer's detached , intellectual and analytic ...
... African writers . The criticism she makes of Nadine Gordimer's work is that it is cold and humourless . Gordimer has been likened to a skilled surgeon operating with a scalpel . Perhaps Gordimer's detached , intellectual and analytic ...
Page 57
... African and generally included all things African , with an edge of harshness in it that forced one to make a identification with being African and a sense of belonging to Africa . This helped me to adjust and get a sense of balance ...
... African and generally included all things African , with an edge of harshness in it that forced one to make a identification with being African and a sense of belonging to Africa . This helped me to adjust and get a sense of balance ...
Page 59
... African exponents of Marxist creative writing . Literary criticism in Africa has also " situated itself outside the space of the text on the alternative terrain of scientific knowledge " by its application of the socio - scientific ...
... African exponents of Marxist creative writing . Literary criticism in Africa has also " situated itself outside the space of the text on the alternative terrain of scientific knowledge " by its application of the socio - scientific ...
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