A Lesson from Aloes | Athol Fugard Overview
In the following essay, the critic gives an overview of (Harold) Athol Fugard’s work.
As a white child growing up in segregated South Africa, Athol Fugard resisted the racist upbringing society offered him. Nevertheless, the boy who would become, in the words of Gillian MacKay of Maclean’s, “perhaps South Africa’s most renowned literary figure, and its most eloquent anti-apartheid crusader abroad” did not completely escape apartheid’s influence—he insisted that the family’s black servants call him Master Harold, and he even spat at one of them. Fugard told MacKay that the servant, an “extraordinary” man who had always treated him as a close...
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