Talk:South African literature/Archive 1

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I am a South African who is in the white minority in my country, and I don't understand why there is not literature included by Anglo-South-Africans. The only reason I could think of is that this page was created by an American, either black or white. Because of the history of African-Americans and white Americans in the U.S., in which the blacks were a minority and were treated very badly by the racist whites, I think that when writing about white people and black people in any context, the favor is given to what is the American minority, the blacks. I'm not racist against Americans, white or African-American (called this in America), or Blacks (called this in Africa), but am crying out from a minority's point of view. Because this topic is called "South AFRICAN literature" the favour was given to the majority in South Africa, although there are many Anglo-South-Africans who have also written great literature. Is it possible to give equal visibility to the minority?


 * The majority of the authors mentioned here are actually Anglo-South Africans. If you would like to add more content, please do so. This is Wikipedia, anyone can edit it, and you are more than welcome to! I recommend you make an account before hand, though.  Páll  (Die pienk olifant) 20:31, 8 September 2005 (UTC)


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PAGE MOVED per unopposed move request. -GTBacchus(talk) 23:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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South African literature → Literature of South Africa – Naming conventions -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 19:11, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

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'African Languages'
In the article is says 'African Languages' at the bottom and mentions them as being Zulu, Xhosa etc. but surely Afrikaans is an 'african' languages being 96% spoken in africa, originating in africa, being an official languages of an african country and being one of the most isolated languages in the world, with europe being thousands of miles away, how can Afrikaans not be african??? --Bezuidenhout (talk) 12:30, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Lots of authors missing
Some major English-language authors are missing, such as Alan Paton, Mark Mathabane, etc. Could someone add these in? Thanks. Softlavender (talk) 07:20, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Different foot paths on one road for black and white people in south africa
Can some one explain that there are different foot paths on same road for black and white people?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.59.89.122 (talk) 09:26, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Citations and bias
It strikes me as somewhat amazing that this whole entry is completely citation-free!

Furthermore, the paragraph beginning "Naturally, racial friction is often depicted in South African literature..." contains a number of contentious POV statements. To argue that ALL black authors portray stereotypical white characters and ALL white and Afrikaans writers (even during apartheid) see "the humanity in the other" is itself a reductionist, if not downright racist, statement! A bit more balance and objectivity please! --itihasi (talk) 11:00, 13 August 2010

Yes I completely agree. I have marked that paragraph in the text as a POV problem. Ghostfrog (talk) 07:59, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Similarly, the statement under English poetry that "English poetry in South Africa is often considered ‘good’ by whether or not it criticises Apartheid, or whether or not it depicts life ‘as it is’, rather than the Afrikaans emphasis on literary merit" is biased and completely unsubstantiated. Ghostfrog (talk) 08:27, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

List of "prominent texts"
No offence to David Lambkin, but it is odd and unsubstantiated to include him alongside much more notable writers in this paragraph. Although a well-respected writer, he is not an iconic S African figure like the others listed here. I would suggest deleting. Ghostfrog (talk) 08:19, 18 April 2013 (UTC)