The Dialectic of the Self and Other in Athol Fugards My children! My Africa! As a Post-colonial Play

Abstract

Abstract-In most of Athol Fugard's plays, the dialectic of the ‗self' and ‗other' is present in the characters who are affected by the people surrounding them and by the situations in which they are put in. These plays of Fugard depict not only the political and social conditions of South Africa during the vicious regime of apartheid, which started in 1948 to 1991, but they also describe the human conditions of black and coloured people. One of these plays is, My children! My Africa! which represents Fugard's hope of united, democratic, non racial South Africa governed by the wise and well educated Black and White people. The play witnesses the creation of the -new self‖ that represents a sign of hope after the inevitable end of apartheid. This new self will lead the country to a promising future rather than a bloodbath when the country is governed by the mob.