The "Drum" Decade

Stories from the 1950s

• Author(s): Michael Chapman,
• Publisher: University of Natal Press
• Pages: 241
• ISBN_10: 0869806947
  ISBN_13: 9780869806944
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors) , History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa , Literary Collections / General ,

Description:... Presents a selection of more than 30 of the stories that appeared in Drum during the 1950s. They depict the danger, the poverty and the glamour of Sophiatown, where the New African, the tsotsi, the jazz musician, the journalist and the writer, affirmed identity and style and refused to submit to the government's determination to 'retribalize'.