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

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Title:

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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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" South Africa. By examining the politics, literature, and culture of an disenfranchised constituency--the colored community--this collection of essays sheds critical light on the current debates ragging within the new post-apartheid state.From an essay explicating the colored vote in the Western Cape, to a critical rethinking of the 1960s Protest Writers (how Richard Rive, Arthur Nortje, and Jennifer Davids can be understood in view of recent events), to an in-depth analysis of the way sports delineate the racial and class tensions underpinning the society, the book gives voice to a uniquely embattled people.The title of this project is taken only in part from the sports focus of three of the book's essays--a midfielder refers to the intermediary but crucial position on a football team, one which links the defense to the attack. Midfielder's Moment refers, more saliently, to the ambiguous location the colored community occupies on the South African political landscape. By identifying the precarious middle ground that colored South Africans occupy--between a newly enfranchised black majority and a historically empowered white minority-- Midfielder's Moment is a timely exploration of and intervention into the South African ideological landscape from the perspective of the colored community.