Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Grant Farred received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1997 and is currrently Assistant Professor of Literature at Duke University. Farred is editor of Rethinking C.L.R. James and the author of What's My Name? Organic and Vernacular Intellectuals .