Changing social consciousness in the South African English novel after World War II, with special reference to Peter Abrahams, Alan Paton, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer

Description

The changing social consciousness in South Africa during the twentieth century falls within a
political-historical framework of events: amongst others, World Wars I and II; the institution of the
Apartheid Laws in 1948; the declaration of a South African Republic in 1960; Nelson Mandela's release in
1992. The literary social consciousness of Abrahams, Paton, Mphahlele and Gordimer spans the time
before and after 1948. Their novels reflect the changing reality of a country whose racial and social
problems both pre-date and will outlive the apartheid ideology. These and other novelists' changing social
consciousness is an indication of the development of attitudes and reactions to issues which have their
roots in the human and in the economic spheres, as well as in the political, cultural and religious. Their
work interprets the history and the change in the South African social consciousness, and also gives some
indication of a possible future vision. / English Studies / M.A. (English)

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1. Paasche, Karin Ilona Mary (1992) Changing social consciousness in the South African English novel after World War II, with special reference to Peter Abrahams, Alan Paton, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15727>
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15727

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823.91409358

Conscience in literature

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/15727
Date	11 1900
Creators	Paasche, Karin Ilona Mary
Contributors	Lloyd, D. W., Pereira, Ernest
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Detected Language	English
Type	Dissertation
Format	1 online resource (iv, 137 leaves)