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I Want to Go Home Forever : Stories of becoming and belonging in South Africa's great metropolis
Generations of people from across Africa, Europe and Asia have turned metal from the depths of the earth into Africa's wealthiest, most dynamic and most diverse urban centre, a megacity where postapartheid South Africa is being made. Yet for newcomers as well as locals, the golden possibilities...
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified],
WITS University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. A bed of his own blood -- 2. This country is my home -- 3. On patrol in the dark city -- 4. Johannesburg hustle -- 5. Don't. Expose. Yourself -- 6. The big man of Hosaena -- 7. Do we owe them just because they helped us? -- 8. Love in the time of xenophobia -- 9. This land is our land -- 10. Alien -- 11. One day is one day -- 12. I won't abandon Jeppe -- 13. The induna -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Selected place names -- Contributors | |
| 520 | |a Generations of people from across Africa, Europe and Asia have turned metal from the depths of the earth into Africa's wealthiest, most dynamic and most diverse urban centre, a megacity where postapartheid South Africa is being made. Yet for newcomers as well as locals, the golden possibilities of Gauteng are tinged with dangers and difficulties. Chichi is a hairdresser from Nigeria who left for South Africa after a love affair went bad. Azam arrived from Pakistan with a modest wad of cash and a dream. Estiphanos trekked the continent escaping political persecution in Ethiopia, only to become the target of the May 2008 xenophobic attacks. Nombuyiselo is the mother of 14yearold Simphiwe Mahori, shot dead in 2015 by a Somalian shopkeeper in Snake Park, sparking a further wave of antiforeigner violence. After fighting white oppression for decades, Ntombi has turned her anger towards African foreigners, who, she says are taking jobs away from South Africans and fuelling crime. Papi, a freedom fighter and activist in Katlehong, now dedicates his life to teaching the youth in his community that tolerance is the only way forward. These are some of the 13 stories that make up this collection. They are the stories of South Africans, some Gautengborn, others from neighbouring provinces, striving to realise the promises of democracy. They are also the stories of newcomers, from neighbouring countries and from as far afield as Pakistan and Rwanda, seeking a secure future in those very promises. The narratives, collected by researchers, journalists and writers, reflect the many facets of South Africa's postapartheid decades. Taken together they give voice to the emotions and relations emanating from a paradoxical place of outrage and hope, violence and solidarity. They speak of intersections between people and their pasts, and of how, in the making of selves and the other, they are also shaping South Africa. Underlying these accounts is a nostalgia for an imagined future that can never be realised. These are stories of forever seeking a place called 'home'.-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Assimilation (Sociology) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00819095 | |
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