Midfielder's moment : coloured literature and culture in contemporary South Africa /
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| Author / Creator: | Farred, Grant. |
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| Imprint: | Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xiii, 178 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural studies series Cultural studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4131581 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Acronyms
- Introduction: Occupying the Interstices
- The Problematic of the Middle
- The Peculiar and Demanding Condition of the South African Hybrid
- Writing Colouredness
- The Politics and Culture of Coloured Sport
- Notes
- 1. Writing in a Twilight Zone: Richard Rive, the Making of a Coloured Artist and Intellectual
- The Formation of a Coloured Thinker
- The Radical Intellectual as Fighter
- A Generation of Coloured Protest Writers Emerges
- Claiming "The District" as Home
- Who Is Coloured?
- Notes
- 2. The Poetics of Partial Affiliation: Arthur Nortje and the Pain of Origin
- And I Hybrid, After Arthur ...
- Bastardized Sexuality
- Roots
- Exile and Denial
- Notes
- 3. Searching for Colouredness: Reading the Poetry of Jennifer Davids
- A Different Kind of South African Poet
- Where Poetic "Value" and Politics Are Both Presumed Missing
- The Impossibility of Disguise
- Notes
- 4. "Theatre of Dreams": Mimicry and Difference in Cape Flats Township Football
- It's a Cape Flats Thing, Try to Understand
- Scoring from the Cultural Rebound
- What's in a Metropolitan Name?
- Notes
- 5. The Nation in White: Cricket in a Postapartheid South Africa
- A Game of High and Difficult Technique
- Goodbye Dolly, Hello Isolation
- The Triumph of White Culture and Capital
- He's Got Them in a Spin
- Notes
- 6. McCarthyism, Township Style
- Hanover Park Hero: But Not Everyone Knows What That Means ...
- Forwards Know How to Have Fun
- A South African, in Those "Benni" Moments
- Notes
- Index
