Towards an ‘Afropolitan Deixis’: Hospitality and ‘You’ and ‘We’ Narration in Phaswane Mpe's<i>Welcome to Our Hillbrow</i>

Fasselt, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/00138398.2014.963287

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“…The issue of xenophobic violence and inhospitality towards outsiders is embedded in every aspect of Welcome to our Hillbrow (Fasselt, 2014). Phaswane Mpe in an interview with Lizzy Attree (2005) clarified that he contemplated the practice of tackling topics such as xenophobic violence in the novel as not burdensome, "but an opportunity to explore stories that have not been told on the one hand and on the other, to revisit old stories, retell them in a new context and see what you can learn", thus, the novel is exploring old stories in reference to the history of South Africa under colonisation and apartheid and their consequences on the citizens (Attree, 2005, p. 146).…”

Section: Result: Incomplete Decolonization In Welcome To Our Hillbrowmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The text was one of the first works to address African immigration to South Africa after apartheid, and the uncomfortable frustration with those immigrants in the country. Mpe's novel stands out from many of the scripts with its revolutionary and cautious narrative style focusing on African refugees and the attitudes of xenophobia concentrating on them (Fasselt, 2014).…”

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“…Rebecca Fasselt (2014) in her article "Towards an 'Afropolitan Deixis ': Hospitality and 'You' and 'We' Narration in Phaswane Mpe›s Welcome to Our Hillbrow" explored the notion of the spatial politics implied in the method of hospitality shown towards black African foreigners coming into South Africa. The research emphasized how "hospitality towards African migrants is denied, contested and extended in the diverse and complex spatial arenas depicted in the text" (Fasselt, 2014, p. 99).…”

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Decolonization, Neo-Apartheid and Xenophobic Violence in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Abdullah¹,

Kaur²,

Abdullah³

et al. 2021

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South Africa is undoubtedly one of the most unreceptive destinations in the world for black African refugees due to the prevalent xenophobic violence since the dismantling of apartheid in 1994. Previous research claimed that attitudes of intolerance and xenophobia towards foreigners were results of social and economic insufficiencies. Yet, this study argues that apartheid was not really dismantled, and that incomplete decolonization led to a state of neo-apartheid which catalysed citizens towards aggression and intolerance against foreigners. The article looks at Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001) by Phaswane Mpe through the lens of Fanons’ concept of decolonization, and attributes the actions of xenophobic violence in South Africa to the incomplete process of decolonization after apartheid. The article concludes that unsuccessful liberation and incomplete decolonization can lead to a state of neo-colonialism and ultimately, neo-apartheid. Xenophobic violence is triggered and motivated by the reality that nothing has really changed in South Africa even after the dismantlement apartheid.

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Section: Result: Incomplete Decolonization In Welcome To Our Hillbrowmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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