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

    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