Who built Jozi? : discovering memory at Wits Junction / Luli Callinicos ; [edited by Hugh Lewin].

"If you stand on the hill at the far corner of Louis Botha Avenue and Boundary Road in Parktown, Johannesburg, and look northwards, you will see the road sloping down to the thickly forested suburbs below. A few paces down the hill on your left is an unlovely but historic beacon ... now part of a re...

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Main Author: Callinicos, Luli
Other Authors: Lewin, Hugh
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2012.
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Physical Description:ix, 179 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 27 cm
Format: Book
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"If you stand on the hill at the far corner of Louis Botha Avenue and Boundary Road in Parktown, Johannesburg, and look northwards, you will see the road sloping down to the thickly forested suburbs below. A few paces down the hill on your left is an unlovely but historic beacon ... now part of a reinterpreted landscape, called Wits Junction, a uniquely historical precinct. Jozi is noted for its diversity -- if there was the crassness of naked commerce, there were also the more subtle, countervailing cultures of millions of men and women who came to make their home or occupation in Johannesburg. In Who Built Jozi? Luli Callinicos weaves a fascinating fabric, exploring the foundations of Johannesburg by making the connections between the legacy of those first newcomers to the city and today's post-apartheid generation living in the residential complex, a conversation between the present and the past"--P. [4] of cover.
Call Number:DT2405.J6557 C35 2012
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-179) and index.
ISBN:9781868146079
1868146073
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