1st Edition
Midfielder's Moment Coloured Literature And Culture In Contemporary South Africa
By Grant Farred
Copyright 2000
192 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book attempts to address crucial political and cultural issues in contemporary South Africa: the experience of being coloured, the occupation of the racial interstices, and the condition of hybridity in a society marked by a penchant for polarity.
Introduction: Occupying the Interstices 1. Writing in a Twilight Zone: Richard Rive, the Making of a Coloured Artist and Intellectual 2. The Poetics of Partial Affiliation: Arthur Nortje and the Pain of Origin 3. Searching for Colouredness: Reading the Poetry of Jennifer Davids 4. "Theatre of Dreams": Mimicry and Difference in Cape Flats Township Football 5. The Nation in White: Cricket in a Postapartheid South Africa 6. McCarthyism, Township Style
Biography
Grant Farred received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1997 and is currrently Assistant Professor of Literature at Duke University. Farred is editor of Rethinking C.L.R. James and the author of What's My Name? Organic and Vernacular Intellectuals .
