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Sof'town Sleuths: The Hard-Boiled Genre Goes to Jo'Burg
Ist Teil von
Cambridge journal of postcolonial literary inquiry, 2018, Vol.5 (1), p.20-35
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In an attempt to develop new constellations of world literature, this article places the writers of South Africa’s
Drum
generation within the orbit of the American hard-boiled genre. For a brief period in the 1950 s,
Drum
was home to a team of gifted writers who cut their literary teeth in the fast-paced, hard-drinking, crime-riddled streets of Sophiatown, Johannesburg’s last remaining black township. Their unique style was a blend of quick-witted Hollywood dialogue, a private detective’s street sense, and the hard-boiled aesthetic of writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Writing in English in the era of the Bantu Education Act (1953),
Drum
writers challenged attempts to retribalize the African natives with the counter discourse of an educated, urbanized, modern African. This article (dis)orients conventional treatments of both
Drum
writers and the hard-boiled tradition by tracing alternative lines of flight between seemingly disparate fields of study.