South Africa

South Africa has 11 national languages, Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Venda, SiSwati, Tsonga, and Ndebele. Any definitive literary history of South Africa should, it could be argued, discuss lit produced in any eleven languages. But the only literature perpetually to adopt characteristics that can be said to be national, is Afrikaans. Olivier argues, Of all the literatures in South Africa, Afrikaans literature has been the only single to have become a national literature in the sense that it developed a clear image of itself as a separate entity, and that by way of institutional intrenchment through teaching, distribution, a review culture, journals, etc. it could ensure the duration of that concept. Part of the problem is that English literature has been seen within the greater context of English writing in the world, and has, because of Englishs global perplex as lingua franca, not been seen as autonomous or indigenous to South Africa in Oliviers words, English literature in South Africa continues to be a sort of accessory of British or international English literature. The African languages, on the early(a) hand, are verbalize across the borders of Southern Africa, e.g. Tswana which is spoken in Botswana, and Tsonga in Zimbabwe, and Sotho in Lesotho.



South Africas borders were skeletal up by the British Empire, and like all other colonies, these borders were drawn without regard for the people living within them. thus: in a history of South African literature, do we include all Tswana writers, or only the ones with South African citizenship? Chapman bypasses this problem by including Southern African literatures. The second problem with the African languages is accessibility, because since the African languages are regional languages, none of them can margin call the readership on a national scale comparable to Afrikaans and English. Sotho, for instance, while transgressing the national borders of the RSA, is on the other hand mainly...If you expect to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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