Native Nostalgia

Native Nostalgia

by Dlamini, Jacob

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Challenging the stereotype that black people who lived under South African apartheid have no happy memories of the past, this examination into nostalgia carves out a path away from the archetypical musings. Even though apartheid itself had no virtue, the author, himself a young black man who spent his childhood under apartheid, insists that it was not a vast moral desert in the lives of those living in townships. In this deep meditation on the experiences of those who lived through apartheid, i…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Native Nostalgia.

Summary

Challenging the stereotype that black people who lived under South African apartheid have no happy memories of the past, this examination into nostalgia carves out a path away from the archetypical musings. Even though apartheid itself had no virtue, the author, himself a young black man who spent his childhood under apartheid, insists that it was not a vast moral desert in the lives of those living in townships. In this deep meditation on the experiences of those who lived through apartheid, it points out that despite the poverty and crime, there was still art, literature, music, and morals t.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Jacana Media
  • Place of Publication:Chicago
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781431400225, 143140022X, 9781431403998, 1431403997
  • oclc:ocn793511250
  • LC Classification:DT1757 .D58 2010
  • Dewey Decimal:968

Table of Contents

Front Cover; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Sounds on the Air; 2 Township in Sight; 3 Strangers from Underground; 4 Class Warfare; 5 The Texture of Money; 6 The Sense of Township Life; 7 The Language of Nostalgia; 8 Conclusion; References; Back Cover.

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Subjects

Apartheid Apartheid -- Afrique du Sud Apartheid -- South Africa Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General Dlamini, Jacob HISTORY -- South -- Africa Katlehong (South Africa) -- Social life… Manners and customs Nostalgia Nostalgia -- South Africa Nostalgie -- Afrique du Sud South Africa South Africa -- Biography South Africa -- Katlehong

Writers

Dlamini, Jacob

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