South Africa : a botched civilization? : racial conflict and identity in selected South African novels / Jane Davis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1996.Description: xxxiv, 182 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0761806040 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0761806059 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823 21
LOC classification:
  • PR9362.5 .D38 1997
Contents:
Ch. 1. The "Nigger in Them": Sarah Gertrude Millin's Ideology of "Blood" in God's Stepchildren (1924) -- Ch. 2. "The Ways of Whitefolks" II: White Sterility in Gordimer's A World of Strangers (1958) and La Guma's Time of the Butcherbird (1979) -- Ch. 3. In the Grasp of White Primitives: The Fight for Humanity in Andre Brink's A Dry White Season (1984) -- Ch. 4. Abrahams' The Path of Thunder (1948) and Fugard's Tsotsi (1980): Cross-Currents with African American Literature -- Ch. 5. Coming of Age: Lynn Freed's Home Ground (1986) and Toeckey Jones's Go Well, Stay Well (1979) -- Conclusion: The Deep Shadow.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-180) and index.

Ch. 1. The "Nigger in Them": Sarah Gertrude Millin's Ideology of "Blood" in God's Stepchildren (1924) -- Ch. 2. "The Ways of Whitefolks" II: White Sterility in Gordimer's A World of Strangers (1958) and La Guma's Time of the Butcherbird (1979) -- Ch. 3. In the Grasp of White Primitives: The Fight for Humanity in Andre Brink's A Dry White Season (1984) -- Ch. 4. Abrahams' The Path of Thunder (1948) and Fugard's Tsotsi (1980): Cross-Currents with African American Literature -- Ch. 5. Coming of Age: Lynn Freed's Home Ground (1986) and Toeckey Jones's Go Well, Stay Well (1979) -- Conclusion: The Deep Shadow.

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