CONFLICT AS SEEN IN THE NOVEL In 1946,before apartheid was officially established in South Africa,Peter Abrahams wrote a novel that served as a disturbing prediction about the future. Mine boy is not just a work of historical narrative,it was an...
INTRODUCTION Peter Abrahams’ “Mine Boy” which is considered the first South African Modern Novel was first published in 1946. The novel was set in South Africa during the 1930s, and it tells us the story of Xuma, a young black man...
“Mine Boy” by Peter Abrahams is a 1946 novel centered on the prevailing social and racial discriminations that occurred in a post-independence South Africa which had begun introducing a new Apartheid policy which brought about unfavorable and discriminatory treatments towards the...