Adam Small

South African poet

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contribution to South African literature

  • In South African literature: In Afrikaans

    …vernacular of the Cape Coloureds, Adam Small was the most talented.

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  • Athol Fugard with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
    In African literature: Afrikaans

    Adam Small wrote works, such as Kanna hy kô hystoe (1965; Kanna—He Is Coming Home), that revealed the realities of the lives of nonwhites in South Africa. Ingrid Jonker wrote intensely personal poetry. Breytenbach wrote surreal poetry, his work revealing his struggle with the Afrikaners’…

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  • South Africa
    In South Africa: Multicultural literature

    The authors Adam Small and Alex La Guma have written vividly in Afrikaans and English, respectively, of the effects of racial discrimination and of the complex and frequently violent nature of life in South Africa. Many Black and white writers addressing these and other themes have received…

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