Towards an African Literature: The Emergence of Literary Form in Xhosa

Towards an African Literature: The Emergence of Literary Form in Xhosa is a landmark intervention in the study of Southern African writing, offering both an incisive critique of Euro-American scholarship and a rigorous model for literary criticism rooted in African contexts. First published as essays in the 1950s in *Africa South*, A. C. Jordan’s work situates Xhosa literature within the broader history of colonial conquest, resistance, and cultural transformation. Rejecting approaches that...