Elizabeth Taylor's reflections on South African fiction are rooted in the political and social realities which dictated, until the democratic era, the preoccupations of most writing produced in the country: the politics of oppression and dispossession, identity and racism, gender and miscegenation. From Olive Schreiner's Story of an African Farm (1883) to Sol T. Plaatje's Mhudi (1930), from Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country...