The magazine Drum began in March, 1951, and it has become
deservedly famous since: partly for the ethos it created, partly for
the writers that it fostered - writers such as Nat Nakasa, Can Themba,
Casey Motsisi, Ezekiel ...
Since the subject of "Literary Criticism in South Africa" is a vast one, I am going to narrow the topic to the idea of research in South African literature and I do not aim to be comprehensive in any way. Looking back over ...
This paper developed out of my interest in black literature.
It soon became apparent that an understanding of early black written
literature was dependent on a knowledge of the history of the black
press. It also soon ...
The title of this book requires explanation. Some years ago I saw a Don
Martin cartoon in Mad Magazine. It was of one of his crazed-looking, loony
characters standing in a laboratory with a test-tube filled with ...