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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Nadine Gordimer

The Black Interpreters (censored)

Published: Ravan press, Johannesburg, 1973

Edition: 1st

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The Black Interpreters, Notes on African Writing, Ravan Press, First Edition, cover design & photograph by David Goldblatt, bibliography, index, 76 pages, 155 x 230mm, condition:good.

Section One: Modern African Fiction in English, Section Two:New Black Poetry in South Africa.

'The creators of Negritude, the literary movement whose sentiments coincided with the unspoken aspirations of a whole continent, and others descended from African slaves had never set eyes on Africa. Africa had passed, along with their African names, religions and languages, out of living memory, generations before'( from Section One).

Two blocks of text have been inked out in view of a banning order served on the poet, Mandlenkosi Langa, on 9 October 1973 (see images).

  • Overall Condition: good
  • Size: 155 x 225mm


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