Most have been made popular by scholars of literature domiciled in departments of the universities that teach literary studies. He also talked of a second group of writers who he classified as authors of popular literature. University dons treated their novels as pulp for the masses, whose literary appetites sought excitement rather that erudition in literary arts. The Wanjala high-low literary typology arose in the late 1970s in his two pioneer works of literary criticism. Many writers of the so-called popular literature were relegated to the penumbra of literary scholarship in schools and universities for many years.

Source: The Star April 03, 2021 01:52 UTC