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Welcome to Our Hillbrow A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa

Paperback • 2011 • English • 1. edition

Welcome to Our Hillbrow A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa

By Phaswane Mpe

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About the book

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 d...Show more

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ISBN

9780821419625

Publisher

Ohio University Press

Published year

2011

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Welcome to Our Hillbrow A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa

Format

Paperback

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