The hostel-dwellers : a first hand account / Rrekgetsi Chimeloane.
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Chimeloane, Rrekgetsi (författare)
- ISBN 0795700806
- Publicerad: 1998
- Publicerad: Cape Town : Kwela, 1998
- Engelska 108 p.
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- "Alex Ditshipi is on his way to the top. An apprentice tradesman at Sasol One, he is determined to make it in a white man's world. A proud Sowetan, Alex holds himself above the old rural men around him in Boiketlong Hostel, who cling to their traditional ways. Alex is cultured and educated, a snappy dresser, a cook of note, and an expert in American music. Not like his co-workers who seem scared of the wash cloth, whose wardrobes emit unspeakable odours; those who feast on stomach-turning meals and practise bizarre superstitions. Worst of all are the violent types who dance around with pangas in the middle of the night, or those who incite the other workers to strike against the bosses After all, it was his participation in a strike that cost Alex his technikon diploma a couple of years before. No, Alex is different: the way forward for him is through the books he studies, the culture that raises him above the violence and squalor around him. But it is the books he discovers through his African writers' group that prompt him to reconsider African culture, a culture embodied by the old men he has scorned and their traditions he has forgotten. When Alex graduates from hostel-life five years later, he is a changed man."
Ämnesord
- Tourist camps, hostels, etc. -- Fiction -- South Africa -- Johannesburg (BNB)
Klassifikation
- 823.914 (DDC)
- 823 (DDC)
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