ENG2603 Assignment
3 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2024 -
DUE 13 September
2024
, ENG2603 Assignment 3 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2024 - DUE 13
September 2024
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—yet in all other languages, they
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3 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2024 -
DUE 13 September
2024
, ENG2603 Assignment 3 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2024 - DUE 13
September 2024
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—yet in all other languages, they
For assistance whatsapp +254702715801
