The Resource Electric fences : stories, Gugu Hlongwane, (electronic resource)
Electric fences : stories, Gugu Hlongwane, (electronic resource)
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The item Electric fences : stories, Gugu Hlongwane, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- "Electric Fences is a collection of short stories set in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. The stories highlight past and present divisions and atrocities; the dangers and superficialities of the apartheid system; as well as the effects of apartheid on characters who vacillate between conformity and resistance. The tensions in both past and present dispensations are not only between blacks and whites but also between blacks and Indians; men and women; teachers and students; and between working and middle to upper-middle classes. The collection explores the grey areas of apartheid: for instance, what happens when a black girl from the township attends a white private school and the repercussions of this transgression during the apartheid years. The transition to democracy is explored via characters who show both trepidation and excitement at the very thought of collapsing borders. However the stories set in the so-called new South Africa show the failure of the Rainbow Nation. There are more disappointments than successes in a South Africa that resembles the police and policed state of old. While the stories' characters are often overwhelmed by the awesomeness of the state machinery, there is hope evidenced by those who work against the grain to forge more humane societies."--
- Language
- eng
- Contents
-
- Sweets shop
- The assignment
- In the dip
- Electric fences
- Lady Di's
- Forks and spoons
- Bodies beautiful
- Linda
- Isbn
- 9781927494813
- Label
- Electric fences : stories
- Title
- Electric fences
- Title remainder
- stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Gugu Hlongwane
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Electric Fences is a collection of short stories set in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. The stories highlight past and present divisions and atrocities; the dangers and superficialities of the apartheid system; as well as the effects of apartheid on characters who vacillate between conformity and resistance. The tensions in both past and present dispensations are not only between blacks and whites but also between blacks and Indians; men and women; teachers and students; and between working and middle to upper-middle classes. The collection explores the grey areas of apartheid: for instance, what happens when a black girl from the township attends a white private school and the repercussions of this transgression during the apartheid years. The transition to democracy is explored via characters who show both trepidation and excitement at the very thought of collapsing borders. However the stories set in the so-called new South Africa show the failure of the Rainbow Nation. There are more disappointments than successes in a South Africa that resembles the police and policed state of old. While the stories' characters are often overwhelmed by the awesomeness of the state machinery, there is hope evidenced by those who work against the grain to forge more humane societies."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hlongwane, Gugu Dawn
- Dewey number
- C813/.6
- LC call number
- PR9199.4.H6325
- LC item number
- A6 2016
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Short stories, Canadian
- Label
- Electric fences : stories, Gugu Hlongwane, (electronic resource)
- Contents
- Sweets shop -- The assignment -- In the dip -- Electric fences -- Lady Di's -- Forks and spoons -- Bodies beautiful -- Linda
- Control code
- OCM1bookssj0001906843
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Isbn
- 9781927494813
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2016497789
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)bookssj0001906843
- Label
- Electric fences : stories, Gugu Hlongwane, (electronic resource)
- Contents
- Sweets shop -- The assignment -- In the dip -- Electric fences -- Lady Di's -- Forks and spoons -- Bodies beautiful -- Linda
- Control code
- OCM1bookssj0001906843
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Isbn
- 9781927494813
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2016497789
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)bookssj0001906843
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