Turbott Wolfe

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Turbott Wolfe

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ISBN: 9780949937698
Authors: William Plomer
Publisher: Ad. Donker
Date of Publication: 1980-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Race, Feminism, World War II
Goodreads rating: 3.46
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“It is an inexplicable lapse on the part of literary scholars and critics,” writes Nadine Gordimer in her Introduction, “that Turbott Wolfe is not recognised as a pyrotechnic presence in the canon of renegade colonialist literature along with Conrad.” Indeed, William Plomer’s astonishing first novel, which first appeared in 1926, ignited a firestorm of controversy in his native South Africa. At the novel’s center is Turbott Wolfe, a British trader who opens a general store in Lembuland. He befriends many of his black customers but has less luck ingratiating himself with the bigoted whites who have lived in the area for generations. Eventually, Wolfe and his comrades embrace miscegenation as the key to Africa’s future—the Young Africa, where the races have blurred. Provocative and deeply questioning, Turbott Wolfe remains a powerful chronicle of the intimate human consequences of racism.
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