Michael Wade
White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour
Buch
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…
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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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-333-36573-1
- EAN: 9780333365731
- Produktnummer: 19504138
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 175 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 386 g
- Auflage: 1993
- Gewicht: 386
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