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Article: Literature in Lesotho: some reports.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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In his recent survey, Southern African Literatures, Michael Chapman finds no place in his grand scheme for a category of "Literature in Lesotho," or more precisely for the English- and Sesotho-language production of the Basotho people and the expatriate writers who have joined them. Where he does deal with writers unique to Lesotho, like Thomas Mofolo and the old newspaper Leselinyana la Lesotho (The Light of Lesotho), or A. S. Mopeli-Paulus, he simply annexes them into the larger "South African literature" in general. This he does, despite the fact that, at least since Albert S. Gerard's Four African Literatures of 1971, the Sesotho one has stood distinct and that, in ...