Imonti modern: picturing the life & times of a South African location

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dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-06 en
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-17T14:32:13Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-17T14:32:13Z
dc.date.issued 2018-04-05 en
dc.identifier.uri http://www.bestred.co.za/imonti-modern-detail.html en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12032
dc.description.abstract Imonti Modern seeks to recount a previously untold narrative of East London's Coloured and African locations after the Second World War and before these communities were ripped apart in the early 1960s by apartheid-era forced removals. Photographs, poems and oral accounts by former residents portray their public and cultural life in the city's locations on the East and West Banks of the Buffalo River. In their own words and through their own pictures, these stories reveal how African residents created their own styles and forms of dress, music, leisure and home-making to forge a unique urban culture. How they created and occupied public spaces at the beach, in the dance hall, on the rugby pitch, in the boxing ring and at church and school. How they forged new social identities from the forms of consumption and aspiration that they found in the surrounding city. It also shows how their popular imagination was fired by the cultural and political example of black America, which offered hope for greater civic participation in a modern, developing world. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.publisher BestRed en
dc.title Imonti modern: picturing the life & times of a South African location en
dc.type Monograph (Book) en
dc.description.version Y en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.BudgetYear 2017/18 en
dc.ResearchGroup Economic Perfomance and Development en
dc.PlaceOfPublication Cape Town en
dc.ArchiveNumber 10215 en
dc.outputnumber 9169 en
dc.bibliographictitle Bank, L.J. & Qebeyi, M.K. (2017) Imonti modern: picturing the life & times of a South African location. Cape Town: BestRed. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12032 en
dc.publicationyear 2017 en
dc.contributor.author1 Bank, L.J. en
dc.contributor.author2 Qebeyi, M.K. en


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