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Writing Home - Lewis Nkosi on South African Writing(Paperback) LindyStibel, Michael Chapman
Lewis Nkosi's insights into South African literature,culture and society first appeared in the 1950s, when the `new' urban Africanin Sophiatown and on Drum magazine mockingly opposed then Prime Minister H.F.Verwoerd's Bantu retribalisation policies. Before his death in 2010, Nkosifocused on the literary-cultural challenges of post-Mandela times. Having livedfor 40 years in exile, he returned to South Africa, intermittently, after theunbannings of 1990. His critical eye, however, never for long left the homescene. Hence, the title of this selection of his articles, essays and reviews,Writing Home. Writing home with wit, irony and moral toughness Nkosi assesses arange of leading writers, including Herman Charles Bosman, Breyten Breytenbach,J.M. Coetzee, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Alex La Guma, BlokeModisane, Es'kia Mphahlele, Nat Nakasa, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Alan Paton and CanThemba. Combining the journalist's penchant for the human-interest story withastute analysis, Nkosi's ideas, observations and insights are as fresh today aswhen he began his 60-year career as a writer and critic. Selected from hisout-of-print collections, Home and Exile, The Transplanted Heart and Tasks andMasks, as well as from journals and magazines, Lewis Nkosi's punchycommentaries will appeal to a wide readership.
