Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Davis, Jane, 1954-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©1997.

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Details

Description

xxxiv, 182 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1924-1986
• South African fiction (English) > History and criticism
• Literature and society > South Africa > History > 20th century
• Social conflict in literature
• Race relations in literature
• Group identity in literature
• Black people in literature
• White people in literature
• Literature and society
• South African fiction (English)
• Literatur
• Literatursoziologie
• Gesellschaftskritik
• Gruppenidentität
• Rassenkonflikt Motiv
• Blacks in literature
• Whites in literature
• Roman
• South Africa
• Südafrika (Staat)
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: racial conflict, identity and mythology -- The 'Nigger in them': Sarah Gertrude Millin's ideology of 'blood' in "God's Stepchildren" (1924) -- 'The ways of whitefolks' II: white sterility in Gordimer's "A world of strangers" (1958) and La Guma's "Time of the butcherbird (1979) -- In the grasp of white primitives: the fight for humanity in Andre Brink's "A dry white season" (1984) -- Abrahams' "The path of thunder" (1948) and Fugard's "Tsotsi" (1980): cross-currents with African American literature -- Coming of age: Lynn Freed's "Home ground" (1986) and Toeckey Jones's "Go well, stay well" (1979) -- Conclusion: the deep shadow.

ISBN

• 0761806059
• 9780761806059
• 0761806040
• 9780761806042

LCCN

96036986

OCLC

• ocm35744370
• 35744370
• SCSB-2104597

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library