Tuesday, July 17, 2007

News at Eleven: "African literature is not properly in

the British mainstream yet," says [Monica] Arac de Nyeko. "The way it is perceived is very much still in the 1960s. As an African writer, if you are not writing about things like war and famine your authenticity is questioned."

from The Guardian: theblogbooks: Why must authors be tied to their ethnicity?

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