A World without Collisions: "'Master Harold'...and the Boys" in the Classroom (Reclaiming the Canon).

Cummings, Mark

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Publication Date: 1989

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A World without Collisions: "'Master Harold'...and the Boys" in the Classroom (Reclaiming the Canon).

Cummings, Mark

English Journal, v78 n6 p71-73 Oct 1989

Describes how Athol Fugard's 1982 play "'Master Harold'...and the Boys" dramatizes the racial situation in South Africa by taking the concept of racism away from universal abstractions and making its causes and effects individual and concrete. Asserts that this play should be adopted in the high school curriculum. (MM)

Descriptors: Drama, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Racial Discrimination, Secondary Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: South Africa

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