Michael Wade

White on Black in South Africa (eBook, PDF)

A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the larger culture of the English-speaking world while rejecting its unspoken consensual positions on many basic issues. This study analyses texts of different kinds produced by the group to examine the way these deviant English-speakers see themselves, and particularly how this self-image is influenced by the presence of the blacks who constitute a crucial part of their perceptual field. Economically powerful but politically marginal for many years, the English-speaking whites have always been mediators of their community's experience to the world culture of the English language; the study shows how the act of mediation operates in more than one direction, producing a literary tradition that is essentially - and perhaps surprisingly - dissident.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349225460
• Artikelnr.: 48839720

Inhaltsangabe

Thanks and Acknowledgements - Introduction - Adamastor's Mighty Shade - Who Killed Bubbles Schroeder? The Text as Social History - Left of Dissent - 'Only' Connect?! or, Young Nadine's Progress - Nadine Vindex - The Novel in the 1970s - Conclusion - Index