- Social life and customs, Sotho (African people), Women, Sotho, Sotho Women
"A compelling and unique autobiography by an African woman with little formal education, less privilege, and almost no experience of books or writing. Mpho's voice is a voice almost never heard in literature or history, a voice from within the struggle of "ordinary" African women to negotiate a world which incorporates ancient pastoral ways and the congestion, brutality, and racist violence of city life.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 174
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press, Souvenir Press Limited, University of Natal Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780869809327
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