On Literary Attachment in South Africa : Routledge : 9781032064475 : 1032064471 : 31 May 2023 : This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy ? its "tough love" ? in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to "state-of-the-nation" issues ? the usual approach to literature from South Africa ? the chapters keep alive a space for conversation, whether accented inwards to locality or outwards to the Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a "problem child". A postcolony that is not quite a postcolony, South Africa is richly but frustratingly textured between Africa and the West, or the South and the North. Its literature ? hovering on the cusp of its locality and its global reach ? raises peculiar questions of reader reception, epistemological and aesthetic frame,