Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… discounted and torn up by that culture. In the Fifties, urban blacks—Es’kia Mphahlele, Lewis Nkosi, Can Themba, Bloke … Abrahams—began to write in English only, and about the urban industrialized experience in which black and white … has, an orthodoxy—a kit of emotive phrases, an unwritten index of subjects, a typology. The problem is that agitprop, …