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White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour

White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour

Wade, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour

Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 0333365739
ISBN13: 9780333365731
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 14 1993
Pages: 175
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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