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Apartheid fiction by Black writers, and how it relates to trans fiction. plus TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW

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Naomi K
Mar 28, 2023
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Hello friends. I continue to read Black South African novels. Wait, did I even mention this was something I'd started doing? I'm not sure. I read both of Es'Kia Mphaplele's Penguin Classics: In Corner B and Down Second Avenue. I read Thomas Mofolo's Chaka. I read Peter Abraham's Wreath for Udomo, which is his roman a clef about the African revolutionari…

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