How to be a revolutionary
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Published
New York : Verso, 2021.
ISBN
9781839760877, 1839760877
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Subjects
LC Subjects
China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Novels.
Political fiction.
Revolutionaries -- China -- Fiction.
Shanghai (China) -- Fiction.
Shanghai (China) -- History -- 21st century -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
South Africa -- History -- 1994- -- Fiction.
South Africans -- China -- Shanghai -- Fiction.
Novels.
Political fiction.
Revolutionaries -- China -- Fiction.
Shanghai (China) -- Fiction.
Shanghai (China) -- History -- 21st century -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
South Africa -- History -- 1994- -- Fiction.
South Africans -- China -- Shanghai -- Fiction.
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Published
New York : Verso, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781839760877, 1839760877
Notes
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Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises.0At night, she hears the sound of typing, and then late one evening Zhao arrives at her door. They explore hidden Shanghai and discover a shared love of Langston Hughes--who had his own Chinese and African sojourns. But then Zhao vanishes, and a typewritten manuscript--chunk by chunk--appears at her doorstep instead. The truths unearthed in this manuscript cause her to reckon with her own past, and the long-buried story of what happened to Kay, her fearless, revolutionary friend...0Connecting contemporary Shanghai, late Apartheid-era South Africa, and China during the Great Leap Forward and the Tiananmen uprising--and refracting this globe-trotting and time-traveling through Hughes' confessional letters to a South African protege about the poet's time in Shanghai--How to Be a Revolutionary is an amazingly ambitious novel. It's also a heartbreaking exploration of what we owe our countries, our consciences, and ourselves.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Davids, C. A. (2021). How to be a revolutionary . Verso.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Davids, C. A. 2021. How to Be a Revolutionary. Verso.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Davids, C. A. How to Be a Revolutionary Verso, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Davids, C. A. How to Be a Revolutionary Verso, 2021.
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