Dispatcher : lost and found in Johannesburg

Gevisser, Mark2014

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As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play 'Dispatcher', a gamethat involved sitting in his father's parked car (or in the study) and sending imaginary couriers on routes across the city, mapped out from Holmden's Register of Johannesburg. As the imaginary fleet made its way across the troubled city and its tightly bound geographies, so too did the young dispatcher begin to figure out his own place in the world. At the centre of this book is the account of a young boy who is obsessed with maps and book, and other boys. Mark Gevisser's account of growing up as the gay son of Jewish immigrants, in a society deeply affected - on a daily basis - by apartheid and its legacy provides a uniquely layered understanding of place and history.