Grant Farred
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South African sociologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Grant Farred, a native of South Africa, is a professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University. He has previously taught at Williams College, the University of Michigan, and Duke University. He has written several books and served for eight years as editor of South Atlantic Quarterly, and is a leading figure in contemporary African-American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.
Grant Farred's Published Works
Published Works
- What's My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals (2003) (64)
- Endgame Identity? Mapping the New Left Roots of Identity Politics (2000) (39)
- Long Distance Love (2002) (38)
- Revolt of the White Athlete: Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America (2008) (33)
- Cool as the Other Side of the Pillow (2000) (32)
- The Not-Yet Counterpartisan: A New Politics of Oppositionality (2004) (29)
- The Impossible Closing: Death, Neoliberalism, and the Postcolonial in Bolaño’s 2666. (2010) (27)
- Mourning the Postapartheid State Already? The Poetics of Loss in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (2000) (26)
- Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (2006) (25)
- On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley (1999) (24)
- The Double Temporality of Lagaan: Cultural Struggle and Postcolonialism (2004) (22)
- The Mundanacity of Violence Living In A State Of Disgrace (2002) (20)
- Where Does the Rainbow Nation End?: Colouredness and Citizenship in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2003) (20)
- Back to the borderlines: Thinking race Disgracefully (2002) (19)
- In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body (2014) (19)
- The Nation in White: Cricket in a Post-Apartheid South Africa (1997) (17)
- Rethinking C.L.R. James (1996) (17)
- After the Thrill Is Gone: A Decade of Post-Apartheid South Africa (2004) (15)
- Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (2008) (13)
- Unity and Difference in Black South Africa (1992) (11)
- Fiaca and Veron‐ismo: Race and Silence in Argentine Football (2004) (11)
- Entre Nous (2019) (11)
- The black intellectual's work is never done: a critique of the discourse of reconciliation in South Africa (2004) (11)
- Wankerdom: Trainspotting As a Rejection of the Postcolonial? (2004) (10)
- The Event of the Black Body at Rest: Mêlée in Motown (2007) (9)
- "Victorian with the Rebel Seed": C. L. R. James, Postcolonial Intellectual (1994) (9)
- The Postcolonial Chickens Come Home to Roost: How Yardie Has Created a New Postcolonial Subaltern (2001) (8)
- Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically (2011) (7)
- Love Is Asymmetrical: James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time (2015) (7)
- “Science does not think”: The No-Thought of the Discipline (2011) (7)
- Foreigners among Citizens (2007) (6)
- ‘Keeping silent’: the problem of citizenship for Lilian Thuram (2012) (6)
- The 'African Renaissance' at the Crossroads of Postcoloniality and Postmodernity (2003) (6)
- A Thriving Postcolonialism: Toward an Anti-Postcolonial Discourse (2001) (6)
- BOOK REVIEW: Barbara Harlow.AFTER LIVES: LEGACIES OF REVOLUTIONARY WRITING. London: Verso, 1996. (1999) (5)
- Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (1999) (5)
- A Fidelity to Politics: Shame and the African-American Vote in the 2004 Election (2006) (4)
- Race and racism: a symposium (1995) (4)
- When kings were (anti-?)colonials: black athletes in film (2008) (4)
- Shooting the White Girl First: Race in Post-apartheid South Africa (2012) (4)
- "Not Like Women at All": Black Female Subjectivity in Lauretta Ngcobo's And They Didn't Die (2012) (4)
- Reconfiguring the Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Age of the Global University: Introduction (2003) (4)
- Introduction: To Be and Not to Be (2016) (3)
- Feasting On Foreman: The Problematics of Postcolonial Identification (1996) (3)
- "To dig a well with a needle": Orhan Pamuk's Poem of Comparative Globalization (2007) (3)
- TV’s Time’s Up (2001) (3)
- Leavisite Cool: the organic links between cultural studies and scrutiny (1996) (3)
- :Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave (2008) (3)
- Crying for Argentina: The Branding and Unbranding of Area Studies (2003) (3)
- Rightlessness: The Case of Basil D’Oliveira (2012) (2)
- ‘An American has been turned’: Thinking Autoimmunity through Homeland (2014) (2)
- Citizen, A Lyric Event (2018) (2)
- Disorderly Democracy: An Axiomatic Politics (2008) (2)
- Many Are Guilty, Few Are Indicted; In My Country (2007) (2)
- The Ellisonian Injunction: Discourse on a Lower Frequency (review) (2004) (2)
- Careless Whispers: The Doubleness of Spanish Love (2008) (2)
- God's Team: The Painful Pleasure of the Miracle on the Bosphorus (2006) (2)
- Anfield envy - how the spirit of Liverpool hangs over Manchester United. (2004) (2)
- Baldwin in Britain (2017) (1)
- Living in Crowded Houses: The Dialogic of Alienation in the Fiction of C.L.R. James and V.S. Naipaul (2002) (1)
- Better the devil you know? The politics of colouredness and post‐apartheid South African elections in the Western Cape (2000) (1)
- Fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits (2006) (1)
- No Way out of the Menaced Society: Loyalty within the Boundedness of Race (1995) (1)
- Argentine Chronometrics: The Time of the Constitution (2007) (1)
- DaseinstufeLiquidity as a (Distinct) Stage of Being (2021) (1)
- Kind of Miles: The Many Moods of Stuart Hall (2017) (1)
- “Theatre of Dreams”: Mimicry and Difference in Cape Flats Township Football (2019) (1)
- Achilles, Celebrity Recluse (2011) (1)
- Saurabh Dube. Stitches on time : colonial textures and postcolonial tangles. Durham : Duke University Press, 2004 (2006) (0)
- “In Order to Live, the Other Must Die”: The Logic of Biopolitics (2018) (0)
- 1. Sports/Allure (2019) (0)
- McCarthyism, Township Style (2019) (0)
- Contributors (1972) (0)
- America's Africa: Barack Obama and the Aporia of Race (2007) (0)
- Searching for Colouredness: Reading the Poetry of Jennifer Davids (2019) (0)
- What's my name? Muhammad Ali, postcolonial pugilist (1995) (0)
- A Politics of Doubt: The Dissensual in The Heart of Redness 1 (2007) (0)
- The Fourth Spartacus (2018) (0)
- The Ethics of Colin Powell (2009) (0)
- The Mudimbe Reader by V. Y. Mudimbe (review) (2018) (0)
- The Secret of Pablo Neruda’s Dis/Avowed Daughters (2014) (0)
- The Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy (2018) (0)
- The Errant Labor of the Humanities (2020) (0)
- Introduction: On Baldwin and Philosophy (2015) (0)
- After Lives: Legacies of Revolutionary Writing (review) (1999) (0)
- First Stop, Port-au-Prince: Mapping Postcolonial Africa through Toussaint L'Ouverture and His Black Jacobins (2020) (0)
- What weight can a language bear? Translatability and Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2018) (0)
- Letting-be: Dwelling, Peace and Violence in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood (2017) (0)
- THE POST-: THINKING DEPENDENCY (2013) (0)
- Introduction Sport and the Event (2014) (0)
- Black Vernacular Intellectuals (2010) (0)
- Tiger and Self-Pity City (2007) (0)
- Not the Moment After, but the Moment Of (2009) (0)
- Race and Silence in Argentine Football (2005) (0)
- Epilogue Being, Event, and the Philosophy of Sport (2014) (0)
- Reseña de "Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles" de Saurabh Dube (2006) (0)
- Take Back the Mike: Producing a Language for Date Rape (2018) (0)
- Introduction: The Persistence of Dwelling (2017) (0)
- In Motion, At Rest (2014) (0)
- Writing in a Twilight Zone: Richard Rive, the Making of a Coloured Artist and Intellectual (2019) (0)
- V. Y. Mudimbe, The Mudimbe Reader. Edited by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture and Daniel Orrells. (2018) (0)
- Imperative of the Now (2013) (0)
- The Final ‘Thank You’ (2010) (0)
- He Made It Possible (2015) (0)
- Introduction: Occupying the Interstices (2019) (0)
- The Dilemma of Contemporary Cultural Studies (2011) (0)
- The Poetics of Partial Affiliation: Arthur Nortje and the Pain of Origin (2019) (0)
- The Riddle of Identity Politics (2019) (0)
- “Nostalgeria”: Derrida, before and after Fanon (2013) (0)
- A Nomic Event: Matanza en Madrid (2005) (0)
- To Dwell for the Postcolonial (2012) (0)
- Stuart McPhail Hall: In Memoriam (1932–2014) (2017) (0)
- To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better (2013) (0)
- Alterity is a Negative Concept of the Same (2016) (0)
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: A True Story (2018) (0)
- The Prettiest Postcolonial: Muhammad Ali (2019) (0)
- The Exceptional Exception: Frederick Douglass and the Problem of the Nation (2020) (0)
- For our time: Thinking the popularity of the postcolonial (2011) (0)
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