Tag: Peter Abrahams Mine Boy notes

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...