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South Africa: a Botched Civilization?

Paperback • 1997 • English

South Africa: a Botched Civilization?

By Jane Davis

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About the book

South Africa: A Botched Civilization? examines how South African novelists, both Black and white, portray the impact of racial conflict on the identities of both the oppressed and the oppressor. This book gives an in-depth analysis of several major authors and focuses on prejudice and its consequences. The discussion of racism and identity is of central importance to the history and the present of South Africa. While the book focuses on literature of the era of segregation and of apartheid, the ...Show more

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ISBN

9780761806059

Publisher

University Press of America

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

South Africa: a Botched Civilization?

Format

Paperback

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