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The Marabi Dance

Autor Modikwe Dikobe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2023
The Marabi Dance is the striking coming-of-age novel following aspiring singer, Martha, as she falls in love with the underground Marabi culture in 1930s South Africa.Growing up in the slums of Johannesburg, Martha is fascinated by the lively sounds of Marabi music. While her friends understand her passion for singing and dancing, her parents can only see a dangerous underworld full of gangs and violence. To make matters worse, her crush on a handsome and talented Marabi musician is developing into something more - despite her father's plans to marry her off to her cousin. Stuck between the values of the past and a rapidly changing world, Martha struggles to see a future that won't betray either herself or her parents.Originally banned from publication, Dikobe's novel beautifully captures the social climate of South Africa in the years before apartheid.'Novels as emotionally true as this about South Africa are rare.' Ros de Lanerolle
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781803289014
ISBN-10: 1803289015
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The Marabi Dance is a significant insight into the underrepresented Marabi subculture of the 1930's and 40s. As the music was often played in illegal 'shebeens', Marabi music recordings were extremely rare to come by. Marabi culture was a subversive act against the oppressive measures of the South African government at the time.

Notă biografică

Modikwe Dikobe was the pseudonym of Marks Rammitloa, a novelist, poet, and activist born in 1914 in the former Province of the Transvaal, South Africa.His social activism began in the early 1940s when he joined protests against segregation and advocated for the rights of tenants. He eventually become secretary to the Alexandra Squatters' Resistance, a movement necessitated by high rents in Johannesburg.Dikobe went on to write for the newspaper Inkululeko and was briefly arrested for his political activities, with a ban placed on his writings. In 1963, he took a job as a nightwatchman and began writing The Marabi Dance. He later released a collection of poetry, The Dispossessed, in 1983.Dikobe died in 2005.

Recenzii

Novels as emotionally true as this about South Africa are rare.