White on Black in South Africa A Study of English-Language Inscripti
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 exami
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Also by Michael Wade PETER ABRAHAMS NADINE GORDIMER
White on Black in South Africa A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour Michael Wade
sometime Associate Professor Department of African Studies and Department of English, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-1-349-22548-4 ISBN 978-1-349-22546-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22546-0 ©YehuditWade 1993 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1993
ISBN 978-0-312-04712-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wade, Michael. White on Black in South Africa: a study of English-language inscriptions of skin colour / Michael Wade. p. em. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-312-04712-2 1. South African literature (English)-White authors-History and criticism. 2. Colour of man in literature. 3. Blacks in literature. 4. Race in literature. I. Title. PR9358.2.W45W4 1993 820.9'968----dc20 90-32845 CIP
Contents Acknowledgements
vi
Publishers' Note
viii
Introduction
ix
1 Adamastor's Mighty Shade 2 Who Killed Bubbles Schroeder? - The Text as Social History 3 Left of Dissent 4 'Only' Connect?! or Young Nadine's Progress 5 Nadine Vindex 6 The Novel in the 1970s: Some Painful Quests for Wholeness
1 22 54 84
107 130
Conclusion
149
Notes
154
Index
166
v
Acknowledgements The Truman Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem gave me a generous grant in 1983, and the portion of it which I used was spent mainly on work on the chapter on the Bubbles Schroeder trial. I record my gratitude. I am most grateful to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at London University, and its current director, Professor Shula Marks, for two visiting fellowships and the unique atmosphere of pioneering intellectual work generated by the Institute's Southern African Societies seminar, run by Professor Marks. I am grateful to my graduate students in both the African Studies and English departments at the Hebrew University, for their energetic and stimulating contributions to my seminars on South African literature through the years. I thank the Rockefeller Foundation for inviting me to be a visiting scholar at the Villa Serbelloni where I completed the final revision of this book. I am deeply grateful to Felicity Baker of tne Department of French at University College, London, and to Eric Harber, formerly of Rhodes University in South Africa and afterwards the Polytechnic of North London, for their many years of intellectual stimulation, advice and friendship. I am also grateful to Dr Patricia Morris for the critical discussions we had over this project. I express my appreciation to Raymond Eisenstein for many years of close friendship and continuing intellectual exchange on the issues facing South Africa, which certainly irifluenced my thinking in the present work. To K. B. Koppel (whose decisive intervention helped m
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