Midfielder's moment : coloured literature and culture in contemporary South Africa
by
 
Farred, Grant.

Title
Midfielder's moment : coloured literature and culture in contemporary South Africa

Author
Farred, Grant.

ISBN
9780813335148

Personal Author
Farred, Grant.

Publication Information
Boulder : Westview Press, 2000.

Physical Description
xiii, 178 p. ; 24 cm.

Series
Cultural studies series

Contents
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.

Abstract
"In Midfielder's Moment, South African-born scholar Grant Farred explores the ways in which ideological differences and political fissures are being articulated in the "new" postapartheid nation. By examining the literature and culture of a uniquely disenfranchised constituency - the coloured community - this collection of essays sheds critical light on the current debates taking place within the recently democratized society."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject
Rive, Richard, 1931--Criticism and interpretation.
 
Nortje, Arthur, 1942-1970-Criticism and interpretation.
 
Davids, Jennifer, 1945--Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term
South African literature (English) -- History and criticism.
 
Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
 
Sports -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
 
Racially mixed people -- South Africa.
 
Racially mixed people in literature.
 
Race awareness in literature.

Geographic Term
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century.


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