A nation's literature is a product of many individuals in a society, an embodiment of that people's way of looking at the world. Literature makes the reader see how that nation or those people have defined themselves historically in their internal relation of all the parts that contribute to its wholeness. We can see these linkages if we relate to the totality of the activities and experiences of that community's struggle to live.
Literature also takes sides in societies that are divided.
A writer who comes from a particular class, gender, race and nation is a social product of eating, drinking, learning, loving, hating. And he has developed a certain attitude to all these activities in support or opposition. A writer tries to persuade his readers not only to view a certain reality but also from a certain angle of vision. Writing is not just pure presentation but also imparts attitudes. And that attitude is often conditioned by our own experience of history.