Mine Boy (novel)

Mine Boy is a 1946 novel by South African novelist Peter Abrahams. Set in South Africa, the novel explores the stereotypes and institutions that discriminate against working class black Africans. The plot follows a black miner, Xuma, as he goes through a number of struggles, including introduced disease from Europeans as well as political and social trauma.[1]

Themes

Critic Sally-Anne focuses on the novels thematic interest in the disease and trauma introduced by colonial rule.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Jackson, Sally-Anne (2007). "Peter Abrahams's Mine Boy : A Study of Colonial Diseases in South Africa". Research in African Literatures. 38 (4): 153–169. doi:10.2979/ral.2007.38.4.153. ISSN 1527-2044.

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