For our time
Thinking the popularity of the postcolonial
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12342152 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Grant Farred (Cornell University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2011 |
| Volumen | 25 |
| Número | 5 |
| Páginas | 695-706 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Continuum (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666 |
| Editorial | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10304312.2011.590580 |
| OpenAlex | W1974437385 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 3 |
This essay thinks the conjuncture, of the postcolonial and the popular, primarily through the event of the 1970s Samoan rugby player, Bryan Williams, representing the All Blacks in apartheid South Africa. Designated, improperly, a ‘Maori' by the apartheid media and the South African public, ‘For our time' offers a critique of Williams' exceptionality – the singular All Black who is not subject to the racism of apartheid law. Williams is explicated here both as an exemplary figure of the conjuncture and, as importantly, who can (or must, now) be interrogated precisely because of that exceptionality – his standing outside, above, apartheid law. Understanding Williams in this complex way is achieved, in part, by situating himself alongside the Trinidadian anti-colonialist and cricket lover, C.L.R. James, and the event of the 2008 West Indies cricket team's visit to Dunedin, New Zealand
Cricket · Event (particle physics · Media studies · Political science · Popularity · Racism · Samoan · Sociology · Subject (documents · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |