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White on Black in South Africa
Michael Wade
其他書名
A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour
出版Springer, 2016-07-27
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SociolinguisticsLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
ISBN13492254609781349225460
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ivu-DAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.