White on Black in South Africa : A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour Paperback / softback
by Michael Wade
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:175 pages, XI, 175 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/01/1993
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- ISBN:9781349225484
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:175 pages, XI, 175 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/01/1993
- Category:
- ISBN:9781349225484