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	Phaswane Mpe \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Phaswane Mpe, who has died aged 34, was one of South Africa's most promising young novelists.
		Mpe belonged to the generation who grew up with the humiliations and deprivations of apartheid and expected to enjoy the fruits of freedom under democracy.
		Mpe did a diploma course in publishing at Oxford Brookes University and finished a master's degree at Wits, where he lectured in African literature for several years.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1378292,00.html (824 words)

	Phaswane Mpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phaswane Mpe, (September 10, 1970 – December 12, 2004), was a South African poet and novelist.
		The only fl people who benefited from apartheid, according to Mpe, were the better educated immigrants from other parts of Africa.
		HIV and AIDS were common themes in his work, unsurprising considering the prevalence of the disease in South Africa, and before his death he embarked on doctorate studies on sexuality in post-apartheid South African literature with a particular focus on these two issues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phaswane_Mpe (310 words)

	Reappraising the myth of the new South Africa: Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow
		Mpe knows Hillbrow well and manages to construct an image of it which reflects all the contradictions and ambivalence of the real neighbourhood but which is also in keeping with the traditional mythic representation of the city.
		In fact, Mpe's representation of Hillbrow perfectly illustrates the post-colonial concept of liminal space, defined as “an in-between space in which cultural change may occur in which strategies for personal or communal self-hood may be elaborated, a region in which there is a continual process of movement and interchange between different states” (Aschcroft 2000: 130).
		Mpe's use of the urban myth is an attempt to dispel an illusory perception of South Africa.
	www2.univ-reunion.fr /~ageof/text/74c21e88-610.html (3626 words)

	Stories and Storytelling in Phaswane Mpe
		Phaswane Mpe's novel can be approached in a number of ways: as a contribution to a new genre of writing (the 'Hillbrow genre', perhaps); as a variation on the 'Jim-comes-to-Joburg' story; as a post-apartheid dystopian novel; as a self-reflexive novel that engages in metafictional play; as an innovative and multi-layered autobiographical fiction.
		Mpe is, I suggest, both drawing on an oral story-telling tradition, and reflecting the role that story-telling continues to play in contemporary South Africa.
		Unlike Mpe, she chooses to write her novel in Sepedi, and because of this and her refusal to 'tone down her language' (2001: 57), her novel remains unpublished (unlike Mpe's, of course!).
	www.uwc.ac.za /arts/auetsa/gaylard.htm (3045 words)

	artsmart : arts news from kwazulu-natal : literature
		Mpe, who lectures in African literature and Publishing Studies at Wits University, was talking at the Grahamstown Festival's Wordfest where his novel Welcome to our Hillbrow was launched by the University of Natal Press.
		Mpe explores depression in Welcome to our Hillbrow, developing characters he first created for his shorter fiction and dealing with the subjects that are central to the lives of urban fl people in South Africa today.
		Mpe has written a lyrical exploration of the mean streets of Hillbrow, less mean than those who migrate there from the Northern Province village of Tiragalong imagine, but still frightening, violent and filled with tragedy and betrayal.
	www.artsmart.co.za /literature/archive/187.html (927 words)

	The Real Paul Jones » Phaswane Mpe and books that changed his (brief) life
		Old friend, Andie Miller, published an interview with South African writer Phaswane Mpe in the Mail and Guardian.
		Mpe, who died this past year at age 34, is one of South Africa’s most promising and most interesting post-aparheid writers.
		Andie and Mpe focus on his life as a reader and the surprising books that he says helped change his life.
	ibiblio.org /pjones/wordpress/?p=233 (122 words)

	Post
		Mpe’s Welcome to our Hillbrow represents the same themes ― identity, alterity and hybridity ― but with different techniques and ultimately a different message ― one which is aimed at breaking down cultural boundaries and advocating a spirit of transcultural hybridity and mobility.
		In choosing second-person narrative, Mpe is thus already espousing a narrative form which hybridizes the either-or polarizing choice normally faced by a writer of fiction ― i.e.
		It becomes evident that, in Mpe’s form of second-person narration, we have a situation in which an external narrator who is not himself a character in the novel, is addressing a character ― Refentše.
	www.uwc.ac.za /arts/auetsa/hilaryPdannenberg.htm (4038 words)

	ZA@Play
		Phaswane Mpe, who died late last year at 34, was a beloved teacher and an acclaimed writer who brought a new vision to South African literature.
		Thus Phaswane Mpe, author of Welcome to Our Hillbrow, quoting from memory the beginning of Makapan’s Caves, the first Herman Charles Bosman story he read as a teenager and one that remained a favourite.
		The genesis of the work was in a set of stories Mpe wrote, which he later gathered together into the novel, making it a fractured, kaleidoscopic view of life in the inner city.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/2005/2005jan/050121-books.html (1933 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		Phaswane Mpe never told us this, not in so many words, anyway, but what he was writing out was the process of his own possible dilemma.
		Individually and severally, as they say, Phaswane Mpe and K Sello Duiker thrust us against the uneven window of the delights and despites of the country that we now claim as our own.
		Phaswane dared to speak of the loss of a whole generation at the jaws of the monster that was about to take him down.
	mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=198013&area=/... (875 words)

	ZA@Play
		he recent deaths of Phaswane Mpe and K Sello Duiker once again highlight the relative paucity of new, post-apartheid literature by fl South Africans.
		Mpe and Duiker were among the few producing such work and getting it published.
		Publishers gave Duiker and Mpe a break and there are a few other writers who have emerged since 2000 —one thinks of Kagiso Molope, Kgafela oa Magogodi, Niq Mhlongo, Gabeba Baderoon among them (some, like Magogodi, self-published).
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/2005/2005feb/050210-publisher.html (867 words)

	LitNet: Young Voices Online Writers' Conference
		Phaswane Mpe, 34, is a Doctoral Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER).
		He holds an MA in African Literature (1996) from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Diploma in Advanced Study in Publishing (1997) from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
		Mpe has had stories, poems and academic articles published in books and journals locally and internationally.
	www.oulitnet.co.za /youngwriters/phaswane_mpe.asp (2712 words)

	The New Black Literature in South Africa
		Mpe is uninterested in racial problems but prefers to talk about AIDS and xenophobia, two of the major themes of his book.
		In Thirteen Cents Duiker tells a story about fl street children, drawing attention to the fact that while racial inequities are rapidly vanishing, new inequalities are being formed according to class divisions.
		Duiker, together with Mpe and Mda (see below) have had privileged connections with white universities, and as such discusses issues of privilege and identity in The Quiet Violence of Dreams.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /sa/blacksalit.html (855 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend - Write the Beloved Country
		Little more than a month before that, Phaswane Mpe, a 34-year-old writer and literature lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, also died unexpectedly, for reasons that remain unclear.
		Mpe’s debut novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001), was set in the formerly hippie high-rise flatland in Johannesburg which is now home to millions of fls from across the continent.
		In a country where we prefer not to look straight into the face of our problems (the minister of health habitually endorses quack doctors who deny the existence of Aids or the efficacy of anti-retroviral drugs), Mpe was staring the beast in the eye.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/b6f9f380-de1c-11d9-a42f-00000e2511c8.html (2599 words)

	Tribute K.Sello Duiker
		Duiker, who suffered from bipolar affective disorder, committed suicide in a state of depression he attributed to his mood-stabilising medication, which he felt was “taking too great a toll on his artistic creativity and joie de vivre” (Van der Merwe, 2005).
		He may have died by his own hand, but there is no doubt that what killed him was a potentially lethal illness that is stigmatised, little understood and often poorly managed.
		Mpe goes on to cite Athol Fugard, one of South Africa's most well-known writers, commenting on this: “we've got to accept the rape of a white woman as a gesture to all of the evil that we did in the past.
	www.feministafrica.org /05-2005/tribute-ksello.htm (3414 words)

	Bellagio Newsletter Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Phaswane Mpe is a lecturer in the Department of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits 2050, Witwatersrand, South Africa.
		All this to the detriment of proper educational developments, cultural endeavour and healthy publishing practice.
		Phaswane Mpe's Sepedi short story anthology Maru a Maso (Brooding Clouds), is due for publication by Heinemann Publishers, Johannesburg.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/bell/newsletters/News25/article12.htm (1047 words)

	H-Net Review: Peter Limb on Publishing in African Languages: Challenges & Prospects
		Surveys show that many parents still prefer their children to be instructed in English as they see this as a language that gives access to privileges.
		Phaswane Mpe reminds us that the anticipated expansion of indigenous book markets in South Africa has not occurred.
		There have been other recent studies on the themes of this book [16], but this collection is readable, up to date, and representative of diverse regions of Africa.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12183964642078 (2636 words)

	The Kwaito Generation : Inside Out :: A production of 90.9 WBUR Boston, MA
		Sarah Nuttall, researcher at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research was great.
		She told me the whole story of Phaswane Mpe (author of Welcome to Our Hillbrow, another "kwaito generation" novel) being sick and deciding to leave his degree program in order to start studying to be a traditional healer.
		I think that the story of the city, this city, is always going to be the story, at some level, of murder and of dying.
	www.insideout.org /documentaries/kwaito/notebook_310.asp (699 words)

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		Mpe read from his book "Welcome to our Hillbrow".
		You will also be able to interact with a panel of writers and have your say on the state of writing today.
		The author reding will feature Veronique Tadjo, Phaswane Mpe and others.
	www.worldsummit2002.org /boell@wssd/jozireads.htm (186 words)

	Ah! News - Oxford Brookes University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		We have recently heard of the sad death of one our prominent African alumni, Phaswane Mpe, who died suddenly in Johannesburg on Sunday, December 12 2004, at the age of 34.
		After studying African Literature and English at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, he obtained a Diploma in Advance Study in Publishing from Oxford Brookes in 1997, and then returned to South Africa where he taught publishing and lectured in African Literature at Wits for several years.
		A great champion of South African writing and publishing, Phaswane will be sorely missed.
	ah.brookes.ac.uk /index.php/news/more/phaswane_mpe (151 words)

	Post-apartheid Literature Criticism and Essays
		Additionally, their works offer meditations on poverty and unemployment, Western-influenced materialism, the task of building a national identity, and sociocultural changes in the South African population.
		For example, Phaswane Mpe deals with AIDS and tribal migration in his novel Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001), while K. Sello Duiker examines class struggles within the South African fl community in his two novels, Thirteen Cents (2000) and The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001).
		In Disgrace (1999), Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel, the author describes the personal crisis of a man whose life is problematized by South Africa's shifting cultural norms.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/post-apartheid-literature/introduction (677 words)

	.:Kgafela oa Magogodi online:.
		His art is not something that you can fix a label on without going drastically wrong." (Phaswane Mpe, 2000).
		Magogodi started writing in his teens, in the Eighties, drawing heavily on his grandfather’s Setswana influence and the first wave of rap music that hit the shores of South Africa.
		Kgafela oa Magogodi is the bastard son of “combat literature,” a distant relative of spoken word creatures, a spoken word theatre director from the south of Afrika.
	www.kgafela.com /profile.html (866 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The anthology consists of interviews, tributes, short stories, poetry and literary reviews, giving insight into the varied South African literary landscape of today.In it, young writers, including Lebogang Mashile, Kgafela oa Magogodi, Khanyi Magubane, Madala Thepa and Edward Tsumele, are given an opportunity to introduce their work.
		For instance, Marcia Tladi writes in her poem Find No Solace in Suicide: find no solace in death/for death lives forever/and the breath of pain/lives in the soul.Duiker and Mpe do not write about apartheid as a system, but as a legacy.
		They also write about living on the fringe of a modern society; subjects that can be traced in the work of their peers who pay tribute to them in the volume.This is a well-conceived project connecting the current crop of young writers with their predecessors, demonstrating the latter's influence.
	fr.greatpoetrynews.com /articles/South_Africa:_Out_of_Loss_Comes_a_Tribute_That_Connects_Generations_of_Writers_193.html (447 words)

	University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
		It spills out the guts of Hillbrow-living with the same energy and intimate knowledge with which the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being.
		Phaswane Mpe teaches African Literature and Publishing Studies at Wits University.
		He has worked extensively in the South African publishing industry as a freelance researcher and editor.
	www.unpress.co.za /book.php?action=displaybook&conf[bookid]=162 (202 words)

	Amazon.ca: Welcome to Our Hillbrow: Books: Phaswane Mpe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
		Like any good novelist, Mpe is able to bring to life not only the characters who are struggling to move from poverty and apartheid to prosperity and education in a democratic South Africa, but the society around them.
		My words are not doing justice to what a warm, sensitive and humanistic account of South Africans in their very troubled present.
	www.amazon.ca /Welcome-Our-Hillbrow-Phaswane-Mpe/dp/0869809954 (294 words)

	Ryze business networking
		And some gifted young novelists write of the fear of the disease among young men and women of Johannesburg.
		Chief among these writers was Phaswane Mpe, who died in mid-December, probably of AIDS, soon after his wife.
		Perhaps the most successful is a film director, Anant Singh, who has just released the first mainstream, locally-made, feature film on AIDS.
	www.ryze.com /posttopic.php?topicid=381400&confid=1543 (1343 words)

	Calling All Schools
		The workshop was held at Mamokgalake- Chuene College of Education in Dennilton, Limpopo Province.
		The facilitators for the workshop were Dr Dorian Haarhoff, a specialist in conducting creative writing workshops from the Centre for the Book and Mr Phaswane Mpe, an Author from the African Languages Department at the University of the Witwatersrand.
		As a former teacher and teacher trainer, Dorian has a special passion for working in schools and a special rapport with teachers.
	dorianhaarhoffwriter.homestead.com /Schools.html (715 words)

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