In all of her fiction, Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931- August 06, 2019) explored the conflict between society and the individual. She showed how the individual who defies social pressures can forge a self by drawing on the resources of… Read More ›
“All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true story teller who would keep that from you,” Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) wrote in Death in the Afternoon. He might have… Read More ›
Before it became fashionable, Ernest J. Gaines ( (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019)) was one southern black writer who wrote about his native area. Although he has lived much of his life in California, he has never been… Read More ›
For Atwood, an unabashed Canadian, literature became a means to cultural and personal self-awareness. “To know ourselves,” she writes in Survival, “we must know our own literature; to know ourselves accurately, we need to know it as part of literature… Read More ›
John Hawkes once divulged that when he began to write he assumed that “the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme”. Certainly many subsequent authors have done their best to sledgehammer these four literary cornerstones into… Read More ›
African literature, an area where the relationship of the artist with the land is absolutely recognised and understood, covers a huge range of languages, cultures and colonial contexts. Literature in the African continent has its basis mainly in the traditions… Read More ›
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