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Welcome to our Hillbrow : a novel of postapartheid South Africa

By Phaswane Mpe

Book information

Publisher
Ohio University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780821419625 0821419625
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7010566 bytes)
Series
Modern African Writing
Pages
124\160
Topic
Literature
Time added
2017-03-11 07:06:52
City and town life -- South Africa -- Fiction;Vieetc;Hillbrow (JohannesburgnouvellesSouth Africa) -- Fiction;City and town life;Fictio

Description

"Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow--microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people's lives, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm. Infused with the rhythms of the inner-city pulsebeat, this courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong, and Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow--living with the same energy and intimate knowledge with which the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being."--  Read more...

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