committed writing

is writing that must convey a message, an image of the world and a sense of what it is and might be to be human.

Committed writing, for Sartre, must convey a message, an image of the world and a sense of what it is and might be to be human. For Sartre it makes no sense to talk about a committed form of literature without discussing the message which literature communicates to its audience. Indeed, for Sartre, a defining sign of the lack of commitment in a good deal of modern literature is found precisely in its refusal to communicate to its audience in this fashion. Barthes disagrees with Sartre’s position and argues that writing is, in its extreme forms, an ‘anticommunication’ (WDZ: 19). p.16

committed writing, n.All

committed writing