Abstract
Written initially to commemorate Lewis Nkosi's death in 2010, this article suggests that ‘commemoration’ should not involve only praise, but also evaluation. Accordingly, Nkosi's literary criticism is assessed as constituting – it is argued – this writer's major contribution to literature. The assessment proceeds by considering Nkosi as a writer and a human being whose achievement is illuminated by the ambiguities of exile, both the constraints and the possibilities of a career at a distance from home. In locating an ‘autobiographical’ element within the literary essays, the argument finds valuable complementary insights in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, to whom Nkosi refers, on minorities and majorities in literature and life.
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