Born in Chains (eBook)

Clinton Chauke (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Jonathan Ball Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-86842-877-9 (ISBN)

Infos

What is it like to be born dirt-poor in South Africa? Clinton Chauke knows, having been raised alongside his two sisters in a remote village bordering the Kruger National Park and a squatter camp outside Pretoria. Clinton is a young village boy when awareness dawns of how poor his family really is: there's no theft in the village because there's absolutely nothing to steal. But fire destroys the family hut, and they decide to move back to the city. There he is forced to confront the rough-and-tumble of urban life as a 'bumpkin'. He is Venda, whereas most of his classmates speak Zulu or Tswana and he has to face their ridicule while trying to pick up two or more languages as fast as possible. With great self-awareness, Clinton negotiates the pitfalls and lifelines of a young life: crime and drugs, football, religion, friendship, school, circumcision and, ultimately, becoming a man. Throughout it all, he displays determination as well as a self-deprecating humour that will keep you turning the pages till the end. Clinton's story is one that will give you hope that even in a sea of poverty there are those that refuse to give up and, ultimately, succeed.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abject poverty • Apartheid • Atteridgeville • Autobiography • black identity • Blackness • Born • born-free • Born in Chains • Born in Chains: the diary of an angry ‘born-free’ • Chains • Chauke • Clinton Chauke • Confession • Culture • Diary • economy • Family • Growing Up • High School • Homelands • Identity • Inequality • Initiation • Kruger National Park • language • Life Story • Life Writing • Limpopo • Memoir • Non-fiction • Politics • Poverty • Pretoria • Primary school • Racism • Religion • Rural • school • squatter camp • struggle • Tribalism • Tsonga • University • University of Johannesburg • Urban • Venda • Youth
• ISBN-10: 1-86842-877-X / 186842877X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-86842-877-9 / 9781868428779