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Abstract This thesis attempts to shed light on the bitter social conditions under which blacks lived in America during the period from the 1960s until now as depicted in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and The Slave, and Athol Fugard’s master Harold . . . and the boys, and My Children! My Africa! Through these plays, the playwrights try to point out blacks’ victimization, oppression, humiliation and ill treatment at the hands of whites. In dealing with the issue of racial prejudice, the thesis brings to light the very devastating impacts of racism upon both blacks and whites in America and South Africa. Through the dehumanizing practices of racial discrimination, the thesis also pursues the long historical process of plucking a lot of Negroes out of their own motherland and implanting them in the New World unveiling the essential motivation behind giving birth to the slavery of Africans. Moreover, the thesis pinpoints the various reactions taken by blacks as types of salvation. Based on this, the thesis unveils Baraka’s and Fugard’s notion of salvation as crystallized in revolutionary acts exposing the illconsequences of these acts on both whites and blacks. Besides, the thesis presents how Baraka and Fugard present their themes through their masterful manipulation of the major technical innovations and diverse dramatic devices. |