Title: White on black in South Africa : a study of English-language inscriptions of skin colour /
Authors: Wade, Michael, 1941-1990
Publisher: Macmillan,
Year: 1993
Subjects: South African literature (English) White authors History and criticism.; Human skin color in literature; Black people in literature; Race in literature; Color of man in literature.; South Africa Race relations
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 1. Adamastor's Mighty Shade -- 2. Who Killed Bubbles Schroeder? - The Text as Social History -- 3. Left of Dissent -- 4. 'Only' Connect?! or Young Nadine's Progress -- 5. Nadine Vindex -- 6. The Novel in the 1970s: Some Painful Quests for Wholeness.