Locating identity in phaswane Mpe's Welcome To Our Hillbrow

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 451-459

  Clarkson, Carrol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; LITERATURE REVIEW;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 32844472648     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436590500033735     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. M Heyns, The Children's Day, Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball, 2002.
2. I Vladislavić, The Restless Supermarket, Cape Town: David Philip, 2001.
3. JM Coetzee, Disgrace, London: Secker & Warburg, 1999.
4. J Cartwright, White Lightning, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.
5. M van Niekerk, Triomf, Cape Town: Queillerie, 1994.
6. P Mpe, Welcome To Our Hillbrow, Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2001.
7. P Mpe, "'Our missing store of memories": City, literature and representation' in H Wasserman & S Jacobs (eds), Shifting Selves: Post-Apartheid Essays on Mass Media, Culture and Identity, Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2003, pp 181-198. The figures I have given here are cited on p 190.
8. For an insightful social and historical study of Hillbrow up until the mid-1990s, see A Morris's Bleakness and Light: Inner-City Transition in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1999. The statistics I have cited here are on p. 3.
9. Ibid, p 3.
10. Mpe, 2003, p 188.
11. Mpe, 2001, p 18.
12. Ibid, p 96.
13. The matter is far more complex than my very brief discussion here suggests. For an informative survey of 'African philosophy', see V Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge, Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988.
14. K Wiredu, 'The moral foundations of an African culture', in PH Coetzee & APJ Roux (eds), Philosophy from Africa: A Text with Readings, Oxford: OUP, 1998, pp 308-309.
15. O p'Bitek, 'The sociality of the self', C Eze (ed), African Philosophy: An Anthology, Malden, Massachusetts & Oxford: Blackwell, 1998, p 74.
16. Mpe, 2001, p 18.
17. Ibid, p 45.
18. Ibid, p 73.
19. Ibid, p 118.
20. Ibid, p 44.
21. D Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984, p 210.
22. Ibid, p 217.
23. A MacIntyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990, p 200.
24. Ibid, p 199.
25. Ibid, p 199.
26. Mpe, 2001, p 49.
27. Ibid, p 55.
28. Ibid, p 69.
29. Ibid, p 40.
30. Ibid, p 39.
31. Thank you to Phaswane Mpe for his generous assistance here. I would go so far as to suggest that the cadences of Sepedi syntax are very close to the surface of the novel's English text throughout.
32. Mpe, 2001, p 71.
33. R Jakobson, On Language, Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 1990, p 390.
34. E Benveniste, Problems in General Linguistics, Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971, p 202.
35. See W Waters, Poetry's Touch: On Lyric Address, Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2003, p 2.
36. Mpe, 2001, p 59.
37. Ibid, p 124.
38. Ibid, p 113.
39. Ibid, p 104.
40. Ibid, p 18.
41. Ibid, p 113.
42. Mpe, 2003, p 192.