{"product_id":"9781776149865","title":"Original Apartheid Hustler: The Fiction and Fabrications of Dugmore Boetie, by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo","description":"\u003cp\u003eDugmore Boetie is remembered for one book: \u003cem\u003eFamiliarity is the Kingdom of the Lost\u003c\/em\u003e, a comic, picaresque account of a con man's life in apartheid Johannesburg, published in 1969 after the author had died. Readers took it as autobiography. But how much of it was true, and who was the man who wrote it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginal Apartheid Hustler\u003c\/em\u003e is the first biography of Boetie. Part literary biography and part historical detective work, it follows him through his search for a place as an artist and writer, and through his friendships and working relationships with figures including Ruth First, Nat Nakasa, Nadine Gordimer and Barney Simon. Along the way it opens up a wider story about how white patronage, editors and publishers shaped Black South African writing in the 1950s and 1960s, a story of collaboration and exploitation, but also of resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBenjamin N. Lawrance is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and a research fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. Vusumuzi R. Kumalo is a Senior Lecturer in History at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wits University Press\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wits Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50866799870210,"sku":"9781776149865","price":450.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/9781776149865.jpg?v=1792917478","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/9781776149865","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}