Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi (Cross/Cultures 81) (Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Published: October 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9789042018075
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; English; Republic of South Africa; African
First sentence: FOR ME, THREE ASPECTS of Lewis Nkosi's work as literary critic stand out: first, his position as a 'migrant exile' (writing from Britain, the USA, continental Europe, or elsewhere in Africa); secondly, his sustained commitment to Africa and South Africa and to the literature produced from here; thirdly, the unmistakably exacting quality of most of the criticism - its seriousness, its trenchant ('non-nepotistic') tone, its prescience, and its constant evolution or expansion.