Racial Discrimination and Oppression in Mine Boy by PETER ABRAHAM

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2023-06

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university of M'sila

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Abstract The present study of the novel Mine boy by PETER ABRAHAM examines the racial oppression in South Africa; it aims to highlight the racial discrimination and oppression of the blacks, to highlight the stereotypes of the others, to mention the complex of inferiority, psychology of the oppressed, and to highlight the identity issues in the novel. In order to achieve this objective, the research seeks to examine the two works through the framework of the postcolonial feminist theory related to the most important theorists like Franz Fanon, Edward Said and Homi Bhabha. The first chapter addresses the socio-historical context along with the theoretical framework and an overview of the apartheid system, postcolonialism and colonialism .the second chapter depicts some postcolonial aspects in exploring oppression, Stereotype of the other, inferiority complex, racial discrimination, identity and the social justice. Therefore, the findings show all the racial oppression by the colonialism that were applied on the natives in South African through the novel of Peter Abraham

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Keywords: Discrimination, Mine Boy, postcolonial theory, Hybridity, Stereotype

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