A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

"Avant ou a Rebours? ", The Times Literary Supplement, 03 Sep 1964, p. 809 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200532174/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=9db9c740. Accessed 17 Dec 2019

[Excerpt]: "Is the avant-garde a subject of indifference to artists outside the western world? Is it generally regarded elsewhere as a curious manifestation of western neuroticism or subjectivisim or decadence? The first special number of The Times Literary Supplement on this theme clearly anticipated some such answer and there are many reasons why one might be tempted to give it... There are two spurs which are likely to gaod the non-European writer more and more in the direction of experiment in the coming years. First, the sense of alienation which is apt to pursue him everywhere once he becomes fully aware, in the search for an identity, of what he is not... Secondly, those who are attempting to record in English or in French the lives of people who do not spak them are immediately confronted with the absolute necessity to experiment with langauge. They may attempt to transfer the imagery, the speech-rhythms, or even, as Gabriel Okara of Nigeria has done in one interesting chapter, the actual syntax of vernacular speech. Whatever they do, they cannot evade the problem, for language taken straight from the European novel or stage will ring falser than any experiment..."