LITERARY

MEANING IN
CONTEXT AND
CRITICAL READING
STRATEGIES
 SOUTH AFRICA
MINE BOY
by: Peter Abrahams

Peter Abrahams published his

novel mine boy.This is one of the
first book to look at what life as a
black person meant in africa
society.
 MINE BOY
BY: Peter Abrahams
LITERARY MEANING IN
CONTEXT
It tells how africans struggle for
their difficulty life and were and
how they successfully passed the
difficulty path of bloody, the path of
torture, the path of slavery.
Exposed the condition of black
africans under a white regime. It
present a portrait of labour
discrimination, appaling housing
condition and one mans
humanitarian.
CRITICAL READING
STRATEGIES
____ PREVIEWING
____ CONTEXTUALIZING
____ QUESTIONING TO
UNDERSTAND AND REMEMBER
____ REFLECTING ON CHALLENGES
TO YOUR BELIEFS AND VALUES
____ COMPARING AND
CONTRASTING RELATED READINGS
 GUINEA
POPPY
by: Drusilla
Modjeska
Drusilla Modjeska
published his novel in 1990. This novel is
about the life of his mother. This novel
gives the reader interest to read it
because it can be relate the bare bones
of story, it would give no idea of the
richness of the text, the ingenuity of the
narrative or most importantly its deep
emotional range.
 POPPY
BY: Drusilla Modjeska

LITERARY MEANING IN CRITICAL READING

CONTEXT STRATEGIES

The life of his mother, the writer

collect and sort the evidence of her
mothers life. Poppy has an
magnificent piece of writing that
succeeds in showing a highly
intelligent woman, who attemps to
live up to traditional ideas of
motherhood and nurturing,
breaking down and experiencing a
new methamorphosis.
 A DINING TABLE
BY: Gbanabom Hallowell
LITERARY CRITICAL READING
MEANING OF STRATEGIES
CONTEXT
 THE SHALLOW OF KABUL
BY: Yasmin Khadra
LITERARY MEANING CRITICAL READING
IN CONTEXT STRATEGIES

It tells about two

couples from different
social backgrounds living
under the Taliban regime
and discovering the under
oppression the human
condition.
 ANGOLA
HOW FROG WENT TO
HEAVEN
by: Aaron Shepard

Aaron Shepard begins his

folktales, how frog went to heaven
in 1996. This tales has a cultural
context, it comes from mbaka
tribe, part of the Ambundo people
of nortwest Angola.
 HOW FROG WENT TO HEAVEN
BY: Aaron Shepard
LITERARY MEANING IN CRITICAL READING
CONTEXT STRATEGIES

This tales talk

about the custom
for a groom to send
a wedding gift to
the brides family
with the helps of
the frog.