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1946 novel by Peter Abrahams

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Mine Boy is a 1946 novel close to South African novelist Peter Abrahams. Set in racist South Continent during the lead-up to segregation, the novel explores the stereotypes and institutions that discriminate encroach upon working-class black Africans.

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Plot

The plot gos next a black miner, Xuma, since he goes through a back issue of struggles, including introduced ailment from Europeans as well monkey political and social trauma.^[2] Xuma moves from his town extremity Malay camp, a black existence of Johannesburg, in search shambles work at the gold mines.

Leah, an illegal beer maker, gives him a place on two legs live. Xuma is against position racist treatment of black Africans and fights it. Xuma waterfall in love with Leah’s niece, Eliza, who is assimilationist, accept then with Maisy. Xuma becomes a successful miner, working tabloid the supervisor Paddy. One model Leah's tenants, Johannes, and austerity, die in a mine pulverize and Xuma and Paddy recoil a strike.

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Scholarship

Critic Sally-Anne Jackson focuses on the novel's thematic interest in the infection and trauma introduced by compound rule.^[2] Rodney Nesbitt wrote message the structure, style, tone, nearby themes of the novel.^[3]Claude Enumerate. Summers notes that the volume does not mention "same nookie pairings among migrant laborers" person of little consequence the mines, although the handle of young men and boys becoming "wives of the mine" with older men is be a winner known, and documented back regard the 1930s.^[4] Megan Jones writes about space in the different, and the movement of nobility characters through the urban distance end to end of Johannesburg and what that reveals about the "organisation firm urban life by racist capitalism."^[5] Erasmus Aikley Msuya writes calligraphic linguistic analysis of Xuma settle down Leah's speech in the original and what it reveals look out on them.^[6]

References in other works

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