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African delights (Paperback)
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African delights (Paperback)
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List price R225
Loot Price R179
Discovery Miles 1 790
You Save R46 (20%)
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African delights is a unique literary journey through some critical
moments in South African history. The journey begins in Sophiatown
of the 1950s, one of the most definitive periods in South African
urban culture. This part of the book is in dialogue and also pays
tribute to Can Themba, once described by Lewis Nkosi as "the
supreme intellectual tsotsi of them all." The prose takes the
reader to the emergency years of the eighties, where we are exposed
to the painful rhythms of a society in distress through the eyes of
a child. The transitional period of the nineties is reflected
through the life of a young man, who has to confront the
complexities of the new South Africa while carrying baggage of the
old era. The realities of our society, after the first decade of
our democracy, are interrogated in the last two sections of the
book. The truth stories sparks a dialogue between characters and
weaves together human stories that reflect some of the challenges
faced by the present day society. The last part of the text, which
is also the title of the book, takes a closer look at the social
fabric of the contemporary society. The stories collectively create
a dialogue between the past and the present and also between
various literary and historical texts. The intertextuality of the
stories posits history not as a series of events but as interplay
between the past and the present while attempting to contrive the
future. The simplicity of the prose invites the reader to
intimately become part of the journey and laugh, cry, love and hate
with the characters. African Delights is a delightful journey of
uniquely South African stories from the past to the present and
would prove to be an essential companion going to the future.
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