TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mpe,Phaswane
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Welcome to our Hillbrow: a novel of postapartheid South Africa 
SN  - 9780821443712
AV  - PR9369.4.M68 W45 2011
U1  - 823/.92 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - City and town life
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Hillbrow (Johannesburg, South Africa)
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - "First published by University of Natal Press ... Scottsville, South Africa, 2001"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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." --
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780821443712/
ER  -