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White on Black in South Africa
Michael Wade
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Description for White on Black in South Africa
Paperback. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 247.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
Number of Pages
175
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349225484
SKU
V9781349225484
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