ENG2603 Assignment 3 2024 Due 13 September 2024 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ENG2603 Assignment 3 2024 Due 13 September 2024 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS In Welcome to Our Hilbrow, Refentše is depicted as a creative writer who notes a problem with the suppression of writing literature in African languages. In one of the passages in the novel Refentše is addressing Refilwe about the difficulties of writing in a language NOT of one’s own. Refentše says: She did not know that writing in an Afri-can language in South Africa could be such a curse. She had not anticipated that the publishers’ reviewers would brand her novel vulgar. Calling shit and genitalia by their cor-rect names in Sepedi was apparently regarded as vulgar by these reviewers, who had for a long time been reviewing works of fiction for educational publishers, and who were deter-mined to ensure that such works did not of-fend the systems that they served. These systems were very inconsistent in their attitudes to education. They considered it fine, for instance, to call genitalia by their cor-rect names in English and Afrikaans biology books—even gave these names graphic pic-tures as escorts—