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Quote by Es'kia Mphahlele
This is where we lived in, down Second Avenue — that’s the title of my autobiography, Down Second Avenue.
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The speaker says that “Down Second Avenue” is the title of the autobiography because Second Avenue was where they lived. The title points to a real place and presents the book as connected to the speaker’s own life there.
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- Persée, “An Interview with Es’kia Mphahlele”
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- Official Statement
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