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• SIDGWICK & JACKSON
• Salmagundi
• Harvard University Press
• A garbled message
• NB: Vidal revised
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• Written in blood
• Literature as Symptom?

  It is not only the Russians whose literature, as last week's front-page article argued, is liable to be dissected for its bearing political and social conditions...
• Between the Acts

  Sympathetic commentators sometimes claim that the Afrikaner people of South Africa are motivated not by race but by culture. The Afrikaners' first concern, so the argument goes, is not to favour whites by oppressing blacks, but to preserve the Afrikaner language, religion, and fragile cultural identity in the face of both extreme hostility within and without South Africa.
• Anxiety in academe

  English Literature: Opening up the Canon is a collection of papers read at a conference of the English Institute of America held in 1979, edited by Leslie A. Fielder and Houston A. Baker Jr.
• David Philip

  Publishers are defined by their authors.
• After apartheid

  Is there literature after apartheid? It would be surprising if, at least among white writers, the coming of a post-apartheid age did not pose certain problems, and for some these problems may prove terminal.
• A bbc publication Ltd

  This week in THE LISTENER...Aspects of Africa--The English Poet in South Africa
• Oxford University Press

  In his introduction, Mr. Butler, who is one of the most distinguished of the younger South African poets, shows the difficulties and peculiarities to the poet writing in South Africa today.
• Minority Poets

  Patiently, South Africa, in spite of its real lack of anything approaching a cultural climate, in spite of its poverty of literary magazines, its dearth of serious readers, does something to poets, native or visiting.
• OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OVERSEAS

  Believing that the early poetry of Africa has been overrated and represented well enough elsewhere, Mr. Butler has therefore given most of his space to later writers, in whom a more natural diction than the earlier ones practiced is easily discernable...
• Literary Gusto in South Africa

  The decade since 1945 has been the most excitingly productive period so far in the development of South African literature, not only in the numbers and scope of new writers, but in the impact they have made on the outside world
• Belonging down there

  The poetry written in Britain's former colonies has long suffered from the suspicion that life is more vital elsewhere.
• Poems from Africa

  Three books of poems, each by writers living in Africa and each positively to do with Africa. Mr. Tong is in English and has lived in Nigeria and is now in Uganda. The other two write mostly about South Africa.