South African Literature

                                     What is literature?

                                  Literature is that body of work in which man's written record of his own experience is given 

                                  in artistic form. It  gives order to human experience, explores cultural values and  demands a

                                  number of emotional responses from the reader.

Novelists                            Literature is like a great journey, showing you things you have never seen before and will 

Poets                                  never forget.

Short Story Writers

Playwrights

References

                                          Literature in South Africa

                                     Most literature is a grueling account of the lives of black South Africans under a white regime.

                                     Trauma was the major spur to writing from South Africa, and writers use their writing as a 

                                     political weapon.

                                     Writers aspire cultural ideas, and there is continuous focus on political questions, alienation, 

                                     social humiliation in apartheid, loss, violence, and exile.

This website was designed for the ThinkQuest 2001 Internet Challenge by:

Peter-John Christiane

Tracy Rousseau

Tarang Peedikayil

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