White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour

by Michael Wade

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349225487
• ISBN13: 9781349225484
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"