Blood, race and the construction of 'the Coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's stepchildren

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dc.contributor.advisorKohler, Peter
dc.contributor.authorCoetzee, Mervyn A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-15T09:20:38Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T08:52:13Z
dc.date.available2021-04-15T09:20:38Z
dc.date.available2024-10-30T08:52:13Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractIn this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds'. In Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the hlstorlcal background of Millin, and investigates the way in which Millin has consciously and strateglcally forrned, as it were, a 'unique' Coloured Identity. Furthermore, the paper explores the proximity or tension between author and narrator in the novel. This tension, i suggest, emerges In response to various pressures In the novel which in tum are based upon the author's social, . political and economic background. Evidence to this effect is derived from Millin's biography and other sources. What emerges from the paper Is that the concepts 'race' and 'Coloured', as they are employed In this novel, are equally elusive. In attempting to piece together a 'race', the novel communicates Millin's aversion to miscegenation, and discloses characteristics of her 'self. Ironically, I conclude, she falls prey to the same kinds of prejudices that she projects onto her literary subjectsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/16458
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectColouredsen_US
dc.subjectUnique Coloured identityen_US
dc.subjectCape Colonyen_US
dc.subjectWestern Europeansen_US
dc.subjectSocio-politicalen_US
dc.subjectPsychologicalen_US
dc.subjectAfrican National Congressen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectNational Partyen_US
dc.titleBlood, race and the construction of 'the Coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's stepchildrenen_US

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