| White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour 1993 Edition Contributor(s): Wade, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349225487 ISBN-13: 9781349225484 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 820.996 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.54 lbs) 175 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |