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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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Book Title: White on Black in South Africa
Book Subtitle: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour
Authors: Michael Wade
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22546-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Yehudit Wade 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-36573-1Published: 14 January 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-22548-4Published: 01 January 1993
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-22546-0Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 175