Muriel at Metropolitan
Book description
Banned when it was first published in South Africa in 1979, "Muriel at Metropolitan" is set in a bustling furniture and electronics store catering for poor whites and blacks and describes the daily experiences of Muriel, the accounts typist. Her relationship with her colleagues and her feelings about the stream…
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I find the notion of the “unknown” writer quite problematic.
Most of the time, at least somebody has, in fact, heard of the writer. So by whom is this writer unknown, and for what reasons has their reputation been erased?
The South African writer Miriam Tlali – the first South African woman writer to publish a book in English - is a case in point.
Tlali’s novel Muriel at Metropolitan (about an office worker in apartheid Johannesburg) was banned when it was published in 1975 for its critical portrayal of white South Africans.
Tlali was subsequently ignored by her literary…
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