Writing Home - STIEBEL,L

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

TITLE: Writing Home

AUTHOR: STIEBEL,L

SKU: 9781869143091

PUBLISHER: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

DATE PUBLISHED: 15/04/2016

PLACE PUBLISHED: South Africa

PAGES: 288

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 148 mm x 210 mm