Peter Abrahams: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = [[Vrededorp, Gauteng|Vrededorp]], [[South Africa]]

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2017|1|18|1919|03|3}}

| resting_place =

| occupation = Novelist, journalist, political commentator

 

One of South Africa's most prominent writers,<ref name="Thomas1999">{{cite news | url = http://www.dispatch.co.za/1999/10/29/features/SNAP.HTM | title = The pen is mightier | last = Thomas | first = Cornelius | date = 29 October 1999 | publisher = ''Daily Dispatch''}}</ref> his work deals with political and social issues, especially with [[racism]]. His novel ''Mine Boy'' (1946), one of the first works to bring him to critical attention,<ref name="Jackson2007">{{cite journal | url = http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33263818_ITM | title = Peter Abrahams's Mine Boy: a study of colonial diseases in South Africa | journal = Research in African Literatures | date = 22 December 2007 | last = Jackson | first = Sally-Anne}}</ref> and his memoir ''Tell Freedom'' (1954)<ref name="Ref_2007">{{Cite book | url = http://www.springerlink.com/content/gv31738746577875/ | work = Analecta Husserliana | volume = 86 | title = Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature | publisher = Springer Netherlands |doi = 10.1007/1-4020-5331-2 | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-1-4020-5330-6 | pages = 37–46 | series = Analecta Husserliana | editor1-last = Tymieniecka | editor1-first = Anna-Teresa | postscript = <!-- Bot inserted parameter. Either remove it; or change its value to "." for the cite to end in a ".", as necessary. -->{{inconsistent citations}}}}</ref> deal in part with [[apartheid]].<ref name="Mason1955">{{cite journal | title = Review | first = Philip | last = Mason | journal = International Affairs | publisher = Royal Institute of International Affairs | volume = 31 | date = January 1955 | pages = 93–94 | jstor = 2604615 | issue = 1}}</ref> His other works include the story collection ''Dark Testament'' (1942) and the novels ''The Path of Thunder'' (1948), ''A Wreath for Udomo'' (1956), ''A Night of Their Own'' (1965), the Jamaica-set ''This Island Now'' (1966, the only one of his novels not set in Africa) and ''The View from Coyaba'' (1985). He also wrote ''This Island Now'', which speaks to the ways power and money can change most people's perspectives.

 

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