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Botsotso 19: Fiction True, False and Fantastical / editors: Allan Kolski Horwitz, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya, Mboneni Ike Muila.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Botsotso ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiktionale Darstellung.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 237 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Braamfontein Botsotso 2018
- Summary:
- The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4 page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80, 000 people at a time largely politisized black workers and youth with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time. Since the closure of the New Nation in 1999, the journal has evolved into a stand-alone compilation featuring the same mix of genres, and with the addition of photo essays and reviews. The Botsotso editorial policy remains committed to creating a mix of voices which highlight the diverse spectrum of South African identities and languages, particularly those that are dedicated to radical expression and examinations of South Africa's complex society. Botsotso 19: Fiction. True, False and Fantastical includes thirty-one pieces by a wide range of southern African writers accompanied with photographs by Moshe Sekete Potswana. The edition focuses on fiction that covers a wide range of themes and situations: Thabisani Ndlovus Making a Woman is about patriarchy and rising feminism in a Zimbabwean village, Mpumelelo Cilibes Keep the Ship Moving! is set during the emergence of the first trade union at a Ford motor plant in the late 1970s in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and Muthal Naidoos anthropomorphic satire Stone Walls is about exploitative friendships. Botsotso 19 displays the art of storytelling in many forms and styles and moves the reader through a wide range of emotions.
- Contents:
- On language / Editorial
- Alexandra Wallace / Abigail George
- Killing the goat / David Kerr
- A letter to the Saad Family / Habib Ahmadzadeh
- Lelik / Jolynne Philips
- Making a woman / Thabisani Ndlovu
- Light purple and a bit hazy / Ricky Groenewald
- Love from Colombo / J Kaval
- Sex is the opium of the people / Monde Nxele
- Baziana / Jean Francois Couvadio
- Black boy fly / Thabiso Tshawo
- Goodbye Sokhulu / Andile Cele
- Memories of her / Elizabeth Joss
- The pregnancy / Monde Mdodana
- (Extract from) Keep the ship moving! / Mpumbelelo Cilibe
- Mr Mothlalog / Itumeleng Moledi
- Face the nation / Africa Boso
- The eye of the storm / John Simon
- Stone walls / Muthal Naidoo
- Psychodelic / Allan Kolski Horwitz
- Dust / Dina Segal
- An ugly name is a curse / Lungile Lethola
- Pinky, the side chick / Brian Khumalo
- The train home / Shanice Ndlovu
- Two soldiers / Collins Chinhanho Thole
- Utoponil / Martin Labuschagne
- Identity / Joyce Greenop
- The new house wife / Hyun-Jung Anna Kim
- The matter of my grandfather's ghia / Rudi Benadé
- He wakes up / Billy Rivers
- The parlour trick / Estelle van der Spuy
- (Extract from) The politician / Colin Jiggs Smuts.
- Notes:
- Stories.
- Cover title.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781990922039
- 1990922031
- OCLC:
- 1273306855
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