At the Edge and Other Cato Manor Stories
At the Edge and Other Cato Manor Stories is a book of short stories and stage adaptation of the same name by Ronnie Govender (1935-2021)
Contents
The original text
A collection of Govender's writings, stories that offers a series of narratives of life in Cato Manor from the 1940s until its destruction in 1958/9, and in the process raises larger questions about South African Indian identities—questions of alienation, exclusion, exoticism, and belonging. It contains the play At the Edge,
First published by Marx Publishers in 1996.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted as a one-woman show, the stories were performed by actress Jailoshini Naidoo,
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Other-Cato-Manor-Stories/dp/191969014X
Rajendra Chetty. At the Edge. The Writings of Ronnie Govender New York: Peter Lang[]
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