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

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. Masters thesis, University of South Africa.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Divisions: Africana
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email ict.admin@jhia.ac.ke
Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2018 14:21
Last Modified: 03 Dec 2018 14:21
URI: http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8811

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