Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa

Abstract

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 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? The Poetics of Partial Affiliation: Arthur Nortje and the Pain of Origin And I Hybrid, After Arthur Bastardized Sexuality Roots Exile and Denial Searching for Coloredness: 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 Theatre of Dreams: Mimicry and Difference in Cape Flats Township Football Its a Cape Flats Thing, Try to Understand Scoring from the Cultural Rebound Whats in a Metropolitan Name? 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 Hes Got Them in a Spin McCarthyism, Township Style Hanover Park Hero: But Not Everyone Knows What That Means Forwards Know How to Have Fun