The challenge and opportunity that is literature: mobilising imagination to look beyond present realities, and yet connect imagination to present realities in order to affect change in everyday activities.
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in the xenophobic killings we find the paradox that allows the new generation of South African writers and Kunene’s generation to have a dialogue. In the same way that Mugabe’s one-man show and the recent Kenya crisis allows the older and younger generation of writers to have a conversation. If such a national crisis is seen as an occasion to blame, then an opportunity to move history and literature forward is lost. If it is used to build on the past and if we understand history as a process then the stage for the next generation of writers is set.
The challenge and opportunity that is literature: mobilising imagination to look beyond present realities, and yet connect imagination to present realities in order to affect change in everyday activities.
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