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
Summary
"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
