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Hime Street – My Violent Haven by Irene Fynn (Durban, 2024)

Hime Street – My Violent Haven by Irene Fynn (Durban, 2024)

This short 90-page testimony packs more references to violence, death and social derangement than the average 280-page crime horror written by Karen Slaughter or Lynda La Plante. As such, it is a tribute to Irene Fynn’s determination to survive...

9 December 2024 Duncan Du Bois Durban Violence, Gang Culture, Hime Street, Irene Fynn, Social Decay 0 Comments
Book Review: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Book Review: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Published in March 1852, it sold 300,000 copies in the US in its first year and 1 million copies in Britain. It was translated in Polish, Hungarian and Russian. By 1861 sales had reached 4,5 million. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was banned by most of the...

21 August 2023 Duncan Du Bois Book Review, Harriet Beecher, Slave Masters, Slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin 0 Comments
Red scarf girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution, Ji-Li Jiang

Red scarf girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution, Ji-Li Jiang

An insight into the life of a Chinese girl in Shanghai, Ji-Li Jiang, during the years 1966-1967 of the so-called Cultural Revolution when she was between 12 and 14 years of age. She belonged to a tightly-knit family, was devoted to her...

10 October 2020 Duncan Du Bois cultural revolution, ji-li jiang 0 Comments
Life of Frederick Douglass

Life of Frederick Douglass

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, 1845 This 76-page account is astonishing in terms of its eloquence considering that Douglass as a slave had no schooling at all and became literate by his own efforts. Its...

10 August 2020 Duncan Du Bois Frederick Douglas, racial 0 Comments
Franklin D Roosveldt

Franklin D Roosveldt

Franklin D Roosevelt: a political life, by Robert Dallek, (Penguin, UK, 2017) In April 1945, when FDR’s body was conveyed by train from Warm Springs, Georgia, to the White House where it lay in state, thousands of people stood along the railway...

8 August 2020 Duncan Du Bois Biography, Franklin Roosveldt, president 0 Comments
A Memory From Soviet Russia

A Memory From Soviet Russia

Living a Delusion  by Olga Morozova, (Oshun Books, Cape Town, 2004) Olga’s perspective as an ordinary citizen of the Soviet Union demolishes impressions held by some that despite the dark side of communist rule, the lot of the masses was...

9 May 2020 Duncan Du Bois memoir, olga morozova, ussr 0 Comments
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