Feminist and Political, "Le Cantonement" Is the First Dazzling Novel by the Poetess of Cap Ronelda S. Kamfer

Born towards the end of apartheid, two young mestizos rebelled against adults alienated and broken by colonial heritage, patriarchy, servitude and racism. Brilliant, violent and filled with furious humour Nadia and Xavie were born around 1980, in the Cape Town region, at the end of the apartheid system. Cousins grew up at random from the chaotic lives of adults. In short fragments, one follows their childhood and adolescence, within a large and …