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The drum decade - Stories from the 1950s (Paperback, 2nd ed)
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The drum decade - Stories from the 1950s (Paperback, 2nd ed)
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Drum was launched as a popular magazine in the 1950s and quickly
came to reflect the image and interests of the urban African. Its
reports of the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People and
the Treason Trial shared column-space with stories of soccer, sex
and sin. This combination of yellow-press sensation and social
concern gave rise to the short story by black South African
writers, and several of Drum's writers established themselves as
important figures in South African literature: Es'kia Mphahlele,
Can Themba, Richard Rive, James Matthews, Nat Nakasa and Casey
Motsisi. This anthology presents a selection of more than 90
stories that appeared in Drum. They depict the danger, the poverty
and the spurious glamour of Sophiatown, where the New African - the
tsotsi, the jazz musician, the journalist and the writer - affirmed
identity and style and refused to submit to the government's
determination to 'retribalize'. This second edition (third reprint)
contains a new foreword by John Matshikiza in addition to the essay
by Michael Chapman, which addresses the significance of the
magazine and puts it into historical perspective: 'Most of the
writers were concerned with more than just telling a story. They
were concerned with what was happening to their people and, in
consequence, with moral and social questions.'
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