Politics of reconciliation in Fugard's Master Harold...and the boys and valley
Date
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Department of English
Abstract
This dissertation on A thol Fugard’s Master Harold . . . and the boys and
Valley Song which shows politics of reconciliation in terms of racism, apartheid and
the concept of othering to disclose how the representatives of white like Hally and
Author discriminate and dominate the others especially blacks and colored. The
whites create the situation of assault and violence to legitimize their superiority upon
the blacks and colored. In these plays, the white characters try to reconcile themselves
with their black counterparts. They treat the blacks as brothers and sisters and try to
show sympathy towards their miseries. This kind of the behaviour involves the
politics. Because they use this reconciliatory behaviour to dominate the black people
and camouflage their crime inflicted upon the blacks and colored.