Welcome to our Hillbrow
Subtitle: a novel of postapartheid South Africa
By: [Phaswane Mpe ; introduction by Ghirmai Negash]
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780821419625
Subjects: City and town life; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African; Fiction
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." --
Notes: "First published by University of Natal Press ... Scottsville, South Africa, 2001"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.