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That "Ugly Word": Miscegenation and the Novel in Preapartheid South Africa
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The part played by miscegenation (crossracial sex) in the elaboration of racial identity in South Africa before 1948 is discussed in this article. But the authors do not discuss the role of race change in South African literature.Abstract:
This essay outlines the part played by miscegenation (crossracial sex) in the elaboration of racial identity in South Africa before 1948. It explores representations of miscegenation, and links between miscegenation and \"racechange\", in South African English novels of this period, including Perceval Gibbon's Souls in Bondage and Margaret Harding, William Plomer's Turbott Wolfe, Peter Abrahams's The Path of Thunder, and particularly Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. It reads these novels as developing a stock theme in South African literature, and as exemplary of the interplay between history, ethics, and aesthetics in the genre of the novel.read more
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.
Trudier Harris,Toni Morrison +1 more
TL;DR: Morrison as mentioned in this paper argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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National Citizens, Global Economies: Sarah Gertrude Millin and the Professionalization of Envy
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Current perspectives on Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man or Perhaps Only —:
Sanja Nivesjö,Heidi Barends +1 more
TL;DR: Fick, Jade Munslow Ong, and Valerie Stevens as discussed by the authors discuss their perspectives on Schreiner's novel From Man to Man, published in a new edition by Dorothy Driver an...
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Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
Mrinalini Sinha,Anne McClintock +1 more
TL;DR: The authors The Lay of the Land 2. Empire of the Home 3. Imperial Leather 4. Double Crossings 5. Soft-Soaping Empire 6. The White Family of Man 7. Dismantling the Master's House 8. The Scandal of Hybridity 9. Azikwelwa 10. No Longer in a Future Heading
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
TL;DR: Morrison as discussed by the authors argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
TL;DR: The Lay of the Land and Empire of the Home as discussed by the authors are two of the earliest works to deal with femdomination in pornography, and are considered to be seminal in the development of female fetishes.
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CAPITALISM AND CHEAP LABOUR POWER IN SOUTH AFRICA: From segregation to apartheid
TL;DR: In this article, substantial differences between Apartheid and segregation are identified and explained by reference to the changing relations of capitalist and African pre-capitalist modes of production and the supply of African migrant labour-power, at a wage below its cost of reproduction, is a function of the existence of the precapitalist mode.
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South Africa: A Modern History
TL;DR: In this paper, the setting of the human problem is discussed, from the Dawn of history to the time of Troubles - The Birth of a Plural Society - The Enlightenment and the Great Trek - Section 2: Chiefdoms, Republics and Colonies in the Nineteenth Century - African Chiefdoms - Boer Republics - British Colonies - Section 3: the Struggle for Possession - White and Black: The Struggle for the Land - Empire and Republics: The Breaking of Boer Independence, 1850-1902 - The Shaping of a White Dominion - Part