Abrahams, Peter | Abrahams, Peter 1919–
Abrahams, Peter 1919–
Abrahams, a "Cape Coloured" South African, has lived in Jamaica since 1957. He is an English-speaking novelist, short story writer, poet, and staff writer for Holiday Magazine.
[The] position of Abrahams in the [modern African literary] movement is not clear: perhaps it is best described as 'transitional.'… [A] summary of typical subject-matter in modern African novels, 'the rise of nationalism, the process of de-colonization, developments in new governments, the tensions before and after independence between the tribal and the national, between the traditional and the modern, throughout the whole of Africa,' is adequate as a summary of A Wreath for Udomo but has little bearing [on] works such as Wild Conquest or Mine Boy….
Part of the problem of interpretation lies in uncertainty about the use of literary tradition…. His literary tradition is closely related to the society which he...
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