Lost and Found in Johannesburg by Mark Gevisser
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Condition
Secondhand
Location
South Africa
Bob Shop ID
616426845
354 Pages, Paperback
23cm x 15cm
Goodreads Rating: 3.81 * 199 ratings * 43 reviews
Genres: Nonfiction/South Africa/Memoir/History
An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the authors fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions. This singular memoir begins with a transgressionthe 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 authors and the readers assumptions are constantly being tested. As a child growing up in apartheid South Africa, Mark Gevisser was obsessed with mapsand with Holmdens Register, Johannesburgs 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 boundarieshow we define ourselves by staying within them or by transgressing them. This memoir is an account of getting lost in ones 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.