Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Pride and Prejudice
Filled with brave, stirring, and multi-layered works of fiction, poetry, journalism, academic writing and photography from across the African continent, this anthologhy offers new perspectives on what it means to be marginalized, forgotten and stripped of one's humanity. 'Pride and Prejudice' is a collection of the short-listed entries to the inaugural award, named after Gerald Kraak (1956-2014), who was a passionate champion of social justice and an anti-apartheid activist.
As You Like it
"We are homosexuals, heterosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals and whateversexuals, burning to rescue this continent..." --Pwaangulongii Dauod The second offering in the Gerald Kraak annual anthology, As You Like It, is a collection of the short-listed entries submitted for the Gerald Kraak Award. This anthology offers a window into deeply located visions and voices across Africa. It brings together stories of self-expression, identity, sexuality, and agency, all located within Africa and its legacy.
Ice in the Lungs
Revolving around a group of students who are caught up in South Africa's political uprising in 1976, this novel focuses on the parallels drawn between apartheid and experiences in Stalinist Greece. It is a moving story of bravery, betrayal, and unrequited love in which the despair and danger of the characters' lives mirror each other. An inspired study in moral uncertainty, it reveals the conflicting nature of political and sexual choices and their unforeseen consequences.
The Heart of the Matter
The heart of the matter is the third collection of shortlisted entries submitted for the Gerald Kraak Anthology and Award, filled with inspiring and fearless literary works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across Africa. These stories capture the essence of the African LGBTQI+ community and showcase some of Africa's most talented writers. The anthology gives a voice to those who would otherwise be marginalized and it insists that differences must be recognized, embraced and celebrated--Back cover.
Always Another Country
If I were given five minutes with my younger self—that little girl who cried every time we had to leave for another country—I would hold her tight and not say a word. I would just be still and have her feel my beating heart, a thud to echo her own—a silent message that, no matter the outcome, she would survive and be stronger and happier than she might think as she stood at the threshold of each new home. Sisonke Msimang was born in exile, the daughter of South African freedom fighters. Always Another Country is the story of a young girl’s path to womanhood—a journey that took her from Africa to America and back again, then on to a new home in Australia. Frank, fierce and insightfu...
Shadow Play
None
The Heart of the Matter
The heart of the matter is the third collection of shortlisted entries submitted for the Gerald Kraak Anthology and Award, filled with inspiring and fearless literary works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across Africa. These stories capture the essence of the African LGBTQI+ community and showcase some of Africa's most talented writers. The anthology gives a voice to those who would otherwise be marginalized and it insists that differences must be recognized, embraced and celebrated--Back cover.
Saracen at the Gates
With wry humor and a sharp eye on a contemporary and modern Muslim family, this narrative introduces the Cachalia family--mother, father, and twins Zakir and Zakira. While Zakira's parents try to keep her on a short leash and have set her up with the devout heir to a sheep fortune, she and her brother are much more interested in living a less-than-sedate and distinctly nonobservant lifestyle.
Sex and Politics in South Africa
This book tells how South Africa came to lead the world in enshrining sexual equality in our Bill of Rights, which forms part of the Constitution. The achievement, which has been hailed as a model for the rest of the world, did not come about without a long struggle. This was spearheaded by gender activists and movements during the 1980s, whose campaigns on the one hand evoked hostility from the apartheid state and were also dismissed as an irrelevance by conservative factions within the liberation movement. Indeed, the end of apartheid did not automatically guarantee that sexual equality would be realised, and the book explains how in the end this was achieved. The volume draws upon the rich archive of the Gay and Lesbian association and incorporates fascinating first-hand documents from the time as well as essays by participants in the events and later commentators.
The Alkalinity of Bottled Water
Makhosazana Xaba, with several collections and anthologies to her name, is at the forefront of a poetry that embraces penetrating socio-political insight with highly emotional responses to the love and pain that our country provides in such abundance.
