SOCIO-PSYCOLOGICAL ISSUES OF XENOPHOBIA, AIDS, TRADITION AND INNER –CITY STATUS IN PHASAWANE MPE‟S “WELCOME TO OUR HILLBROW”
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https://doi.org/10.61841/tmpba862Keywords:
Xenophobia, immigrants, violent, dimensions, Post-apartheidAbstract
Welcome to our Hillbrow‟ is a novel by South African novelist Phaswane Mpe which deals with issues
of Xenophobia, AIDS, Tradition and Inner-City Status in the Hillbrow neighbourhood of Post-apartheid
Johannesburg. It was first published in 2001.In the South African literary imagination, Hillbrow has come to
represent everything frightening and promising about the new South Africa; it is at once a scene of drugs, crime
and xenophobia toward immigrants. The seriousness with which Mpe handles the theme of Xenophobia in
Welcome to our Hillbrow, seems to agree with the appeal by commentators such as Kolla pen (1999), for the
dictionary meaning of Xenophobia should not to be confined to the fear and hatred of foreigners, but to includes
its description as a violent practice that results in bodily harm and damage. This view may explain
why Mpe puts xenophobia under a magnifying glass that elevates it above local society to national and
international dimensions.
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