Mine Boy

Mine Boy
ISBN-10
0435900064
ISBN-13
9780435900069
Series
Mine Boy
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
1975
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Author
Peter Abrahams

Description

Tells the story of Xuma, a countryman, in a large South African industrial city, and the impact on him of the new ways and new values. The author writes of Xuma as a man in transition. He uses him as an instrument to describe the lives and ways of the people who live in the back-waters of the city. Because Xuma is new to it, he can see the hard, disturbing, under-privileged way of life with freshness. This was one of the first books which drew attention to the lives of black South Africans in a white dominated society.

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