Argues that the polarized nature of the apartheid system requires that students must encounter and examine South African literature which represents viewpoints from different racial perspectives. Recommends several pairs of books which can be studied successfully in conjunction. (MG)

Explains the author's trip to a conference of English teachers in South Africa, focusing on how her time at the conference and during her travels afterward within South Africa (where teachers in local classrooms are struggling to help students communicate in a country that has 11 official languages) expanded her concept of literacy as a cultural…