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Welcome To Our Hillbrow
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| Published by University of Natal Press |
| 2001 |
| ISBN: 0 8 6980995 4 |
| "Welcome To Our Hillbrow" is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hper-real zone of Hillbrow - microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing 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, and the Africanist understanding of 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. |
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