![]() ![]() Eileen Julien, describing a trend in African fiction, whereby African novels “speak outward and represent locality to nonlocal others,” calls such writing “extroverted.” 3 Unlike today’s extroverted African fictions, however, which are in danger of effacing narrative representations of African everyday life, extroverted fiction from apartheid South Africa was expressly aimed at raising global awareness of the plight of black South Africans living under that regime. As such, much of the anti-apartheid writing produced in South Africa during apartheid was intended for a global readership. Many writers felt morally obliged to galvanize local and international support for the anti-apartheid movement by telling the stories that were otherwise suppressed by state censorship. This ambivalence was reflected by much of the country’s fiction written at the time. ![]() Was Cruso free, that was despot of an island all of his own? 2Apartheid South Africa had an anxious and ambivalent relationship to the world, being at once isolated via internal censorship and international sanctions and, at the same time, longing for full participation in global trade, technology, and culture. ![]()
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