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at the expense of the black, Cape coloured and Asian majority. This is indeed fertile soil for the spade work of any dramatist, but it does not provide a guarantee against clumsy development or poor writing. Fugard’s major victory is to take an already powerful issue and deal with it in an equally powerful, and yet sometimes subtle and sensitive way. The features of racism are often blunt, as they are for example in Courtney’s novel, The Power of One. It is hard to mask racial hatred. Fugard, however, demonstrates that racist sentiments can often be conveyed more subtly through attitudes and interaction. Hally, for example, makes many comments that he would in no way regard as prejudiced. We, however, know differently. Example: kite.
The waters of racism are further muddied by the fact that Sam and Hally have shared so many experiences that a real affection has developed between them. Fugard has spoken many times of a similar adolescent experience as being the wellspring for the ...

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