{"product_id":"lewis-nkosi-the-rhythm-of-violence-1964-south-african-drama-play","title":"Lewis Nkosi- THE RHYTHM OF VIOLENCE (1964) \/ 1st Edition (Vintage Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThe Rhythm of Violence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eby Lewis Nkosi\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished by Oxford University Press, 1964. Softcover. Small octavo (18.5cm). 69pp. This book is free of markings or highlights. The covers have light toning to the edges. Very Good+.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThe Rhythm of Violence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e is a play by \u003cstrong\u003eLewis Nkosi.\u003c\/strong\u003e A political play about a group of militant black students who plan to blow up the Johannesburg City Council and a Nationalist Party rally, and the personal battle between two brothers and the plight of a white woman embroiled in the moment. Widely studied in the 1970s and 1980s.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWritten in exile in the USA, the play was published by George Wellwarth in Themes in Drama (New York: Thomas Crowell), in 1964, then in a single volume by Oxford University Press in 1964. \u003cstrong\u003eThe play was immediately banned in South Africa, since it may have been the first play to openly advocate violence as a course of action open to blacks in South Africa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"duttyboukman.art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41941848817816,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3935\/8872\/products\/rhythmofviolence.jpg?v=1660918456","url":"https:\/\/duttyboukman.art\/products\/lewis-nkosi-the-rhythm-of-violence-1964-south-african-drama-play","provider":"Dutty Boukman","version":"1.0","type":"link"}