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Between Two Worlds Pb
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Introduction

  • How it all began
  • A feeling of insecurity
  • The boss
  • While the boss is away …
  • Mixed encounters
  • Letters
  • Waiting
  • The lorry-driver’s trump card
  • A token of love
  • A slap in the face
  • A lucrative proposition
  • Adam’s advice
  • Friday
  • ‘Resign!’
  • Sophiatown
  • The passport
  • My mother’s beckoning voice
  • ‘This is home!’
  • The final kick
  • The mechanic walks out
  • ‘What’s happening to us?’
  • One human heart for another
  • I quit
  • About the Author

    Miriam Tlali’s other works include Amandla (Ravan Press, 1980) and Footprints in the Quag: Stories and Dialogues from Soweto (David Philip, 1989). She lives in Soweto, South Africa.

    Reviews

    “Between Two Worlds is an important illustration of apartheid in 1960s South Africa. By telling the story of Muriel, a bookkeeper at an electronics and furniture store in Johannesburg, Tlali comments on the injustice of the Pass Laws, the Land Act, and other discriminatory legislation. The novel also traces the ethical dilemmas of someone employed in a system she loathes. Tlali elegantly weaves stories around the day to day life of Muriel showing her humour and her humanity in the face of dehumanizing circumstances. Anyone interested in gender issues, postcolonial theory, or questions of power will welcome this excellent new edition. Between Two Worlds is one of the most powerful, haunting, and ultimately liberating accounts written of apartheid South Africa.” — Laura Moss, University of British Columbia“[Between Two Worlds] ought to be compulsory reading. It’s humorous, witty, and clearly written; the injustice and tragedy are no less plain for being unpolemically shown.” — The English Magazine“Transparently honest.” — West Africa

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