"The creative enterprise is a magical
space onto itself - the mind in mutual collaboration with the world and
its elements to produce something of aesthetic value. Creative writers
are like painters, using words to paint a literary tapestry. I think
that words have a magic, that human situations- one's environment,
culture, ‘ethnicity' as we have spent time re-discovering - can be
unburdened to join other factors wordsmiths use to create literary magic
- that extra dimension that the writer can conjure up by placing ideas
about the human condition side by side on paper.
I suppose that cultural contexts is
another name for what we have so far been calling the factors of
ethnicity. Quite clearly these factors do shape literature. The cultural context within which a writer finds him/herself is relevant in so far as it brings something of literary value - contributes to the world story - and does not claim superiority over, deny, obscure or jaundice, even oppress other perspectives or stories. But having said that let me
now admit that there are other factors and not least among them is the
genius and free-will of the author."
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