Perspectives

To expand your knowledge on the issues presented in the essay “In Celebration of Walls” by Frank Lewinberg, and help you engage in a more comprehensive discussion about it, we will help you with some points related to periodical perspective and relevance today, and similar tex…

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Periodical perspective and relevance today

Written in 2002, the essay explores issues that cover a long period of time. The author talks about society in Johannesburg during the apartheid regime in the 1950s and 1960s but also about the end of the apartheid regime (in the early 1990s) and the subsequent period. Although the essay is short, the author manages to cover a large period of time by focusing on how the absence or presence of walls su…

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Thematic perspective

Many fiction and non-fiction texts have explored issue related to segregation and racial discrimination during the apartheid regime in South Africa and following its end. Out of these, we recommend the short stories “Labour Pains” by Nomavenda Mathiane and “Once upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer.

“Labour Pains” explores the long and strenuous efforts of ending th…