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100	1		_aGevisser, Mark. _9159889
245	1	0	_aLost and found in Johannesburg : _ba memoir / _cMark Gevisser.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2014.
300			_ax, 328 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
520			_a"An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions This singular memoir begins with a transgression--the invasion of a private home in Johannesburg. But it is far more than the story of a theft. Lost and Found in Johannesburg is a luminous exploration of place, one in which the author's and the reader's assumptions are constantly being tested. As a child growing up in apartheid South Africa, Mark Gevisser was obsessed with maps--and with Holmden's Register, Johannesburg's street guide, in particular. He played a game called Dispatcher with this eccentric guide, transporting himself across the city into places that would otherwise be forbidden to him. It was through Dispatcher that he discovered apartheid by realizing that he could not find an access route to the neighboring township of Alexandra and, later, by realizing that Soweto was not mapped at all. This was the beginning of his lifelong obsession with maps and photographs, and what they tell us about borders and boundaries--how we define ourselves by staying within them or by transgressing them. This memoir is an account of getting lost in one's hometown, and then finding oneself as a gay Jewish South African who was raised under apartheid and who eventually married a man of a different race as the country moved toward freedom. Using maps, shards of memory, photographs, and stories, Gevisser constructs a stunning portrait of race and sexuality, heritage and otherness"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"An inner-life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 315-319).
600	1	0	_aGevisser, Mark. _9159889
650		0	_aAuthors, South African _y20th century _vBiography. _9159890
650		0	_aJohannesburg (South Africa) _vBiography. _9159891
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. _2bisacsh _9159892
650		7	_aHISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa. _2bisacsh _9159893
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. _2bisacsh _9159894
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