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Interview With A First Generation Male South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Lisa Roy-Davis
Male immigrant from South Africa discusses hardships imposed on his early life by apartheid. He relates how he could not attend white universities in South Africa, so he attend night school with is father. Then he discusses his living in Zimbabwe during their Civil War. Likewise he discusses the effect of 9/11 on his immigration experience. Also he discusses the South African Seventh Day Adventist church and how American churches are similar.
Interview With A First Generation Male South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Lisa Roy-Davis
Male immigrant from South Africa who immigrated to America for college. He relates his experience of growing up in South Africa during apartheid. Later he also discusses his feeling on the Vietnam War and other personal changes he experience in the seventies. He ends the interview discussing his opinions on modern American issues such as Political Correctness and his feeling on his national identity.
Interview With A First Generation Female South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Lisa Roy-Davis
Female immigrant from South Africa moved to America for Husband's job. She discusses her families experiences adapting to America. She discusses experiences she had during Apartheid and the current situation in South Africa. She also discusses the differences between living in South Africa and America. Also she discusses the effects of 9/11 on her family and their immigration experience.
Accidental Witness To History: My Trip To South Africa, Harold I. Abramson
Accidental Witness To History: My Trip To South Africa, Harold I. Abramson
Harold I. Abramson
No abstract provided.
Materiality Of Resistance: Israel’S Apartheid Wall In An Age Of Globalization, Rebecca Gould
Materiality Of Resistance: Israel’S Apartheid Wall In An Age Of Globalization, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
Alfred J. Lopez begins his introduction to postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire by stating "Whiteness is not, yet we continue for many reasons to act as though it is" (1). He is especially interested in "what happens to whiteness after empire," and proposes that it be understood as a dynamic relation of power. Despite the critical scrutiny it has attracted from whiteness studies, the racial category retains much of its ideological force. "The concept of whiteness as a cultural hegemon," Lopez argues, is manifest in "its lingering, if somewhat latent, hegemonic influence over much of the …
Literature As Social Barometer In Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reading Contemprorary 'White Writing', Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Literature As Social Barometer In Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reading Contemprorary 'White Writing', Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
Contemporary South African literature shows a renewed concern with the close bonds between land, place and people in the New South Africa. In the post-apartheid period, this is literature that reflects a close awareness of the need for an art that retains both a sense of creative integrity and the ethical and political demands of the narrative of the new, postapartheid nation. Often history is invoked not as the deterministic frame that regulates each character’s lives typical of so much of the country’s literature, but as the accumulated mesh of individual experiences encompassed by the historical narrative. More to the …
Planting The Seeds Of A Non-Racial Society: White Women As Agents Of Change In July’S People, Disgrace, And A Blade Of Grass, Mike Madden
Mike Madden
This thesis examines three South African novels written about the interregnum,the period marking the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid eras. Specifically, Gordimer’s July’s People, Coetzee’s Disgrace, and DeSoto’s A Blade of Grass are studied in order to explore the function of white women as leaders of change in fiction of the interregnum. After a brief introduction, the second chapter looks at Maureen Smales as she demonstrates the ability to adapt to her post-revolutionary society. The third chapter compares white male and female perspectives, as seen in the stubborn character of David Lurie, and in the accepting character of his daughter, …