InstructionConsider how the novels we've looked at thus far, each of which is formative in creating a literary idea of South Africa, take the idea of invention -- of self or of community -- as a theme. How are these acts of the invention linked to the way characters are acted on by outside forces or the way they move through or root themselves in particular places? You might consider, for instance, acts of self-creation or self-discovery (like Bonaparte Blenkins, Gregory Rose, John Kumalo), efforts to build or reconstruct community (i.e. the makeshift family of Tant' Sannie's farm, Ra-Thaga and Mhudi's 'Eden' or Stephen Kumalo's effort to remake the 'broken tribe'), representations of artistic creation or of storytelling or oration in relation to this topic. Is there a tension between the invention of self and the invention of community?