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

Author: Grant Farred
Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 2000.
Series: Cultural studies series.
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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" 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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Farred, Grant.
Midfielder's moment.
Boulder : Westview Press, 2000
(OCoLC)664314081
Named Person: Richard Rive; Arthur Nortje; Jennifer Davids; Richard Rive; Arthur Nortje; Jennifer Davids
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Grant Farred
ISBN: 0813335140 9780813335148
OCLC Number: 42296366
Description: xiii, 178 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Writing in a twilight zone: Richard Rive, the making of a coloured artist and intellectual --
The poetics of partial affiliation: Arthur Nortje and the pain of origin --
Searching for colouredness: reading the poetry of Jennifer Davids --
"Theatre of Dreams": mimicry and difference in Cape Flats township football --
The nation in white: cricket in a postapartheid South Africa --
McCarthyism, township style.
Series Title: Cultural studies series.
Responsibility: Grant Farred.
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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" 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.

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