White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour
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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White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour
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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ISBN-13: | 9780333365731 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Publication date: | 01/14/1993 |
Series: | Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour |
Edition description: | 1993 |
Pages: | 175 |
Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
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