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Solidarity Reads: Coloured lives matter, told two ways
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The Jacana team commits to bringing you great ebooks that span genres from fiction and memoir, to natural history and political biographies.
Jacana Media Solidarity Reads Day 14
Authors, whether in fiction or memoir, present us with either a mirror with which to see our own lives or a window for others to see through.
What Will People Say? by Rehana Rossouw, and Living Coloured by Yusuf Daniels allow those who grew up in Coloured areas to see themselves come to life, and give those outside of this community an opportunity to learn and connect with the authors’ experiences.
What Will People Say?
by Rehana Rossouw
Shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature, 2015 and winner of the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences prize for fiction in 2017
In this novel a rich variety of township characters – the preachers, the teachers, the gangsters and the defeated – come to life in vivid language as they eke out their lives in the shadow of grey concrete blocks of flats and the monstrosity of high apartheid.
It is the story of the Fourie family, residents of Hanover Park in the Cape Flats during the era of struggle. We discover, through magisterial storytelling, which members of the Fourie family thrive, and which don’t survive.
Generously spiced with Kaaps and Cape Flats slang, the novel features vivid descriptions of the difficult issues faced by those living in this marginalised Coloured community.
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Living Coloured (Because Black and White Were Already Taken)
by Yusuf Daniels
Award for bestselling non-fiction at Woordfees, 2020
This bestseller is a special kind of memoir that utilises short stories to weave together both a culturally insightful and an achingly nostalgic glimpse into a childhood on the Cape Flats.
From the nightclubbing at Space Odyssey and the shenanigans at the Mitchells Plain public swimming pool, to the traditions of delectable food exchanges during Ramadan between Muslims and Christians, Yusuf Daniels’s book is a tribute to all that many in the Coloured community hold dear.
This beautifully crafted book sings of the spirit that helped this community seek out an existence on the dusty flat plains of the Cape.
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Categories Fiction Non-fiction South Africa
Tags Living Coloured Living Coloured (Because Black and White were Already Taken) Rehana Rossouw What Will People Say? Yusuf Daniels
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