List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Introduction - Siyabonga Njica and Siphiwo Mahala Part I: Johannesburg, Drum, and the Making of a Modern Intellectual Chapter 1 Restless Spaces in Modisane's Johannesburg - Liz Gunner Chapter 2 Modisane at Marienbad: Cinema, Time, and Memory in Blame Me on History - Mark Sanders Chapter 3 Recovering the "Humour and idiom of Damon Runyon" in Bloke Modisane's writing for Drum magazine - Colette Guldimann Chapter 4 Blame the Present on History? The Depiction of South African Townships and the Façade of Democracy - Molebogeng Sebesho Chapter 5 Black Ontology in Modisane's Blame Me on History - Bafana Radebe Part II: Exile, Diasporic Narratives, and Transnational Discourse Chapter 6 "Corns on my sitters": Bloke Modisane's Dramatic Exit and the Exilic Archive of South Africa - Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo Chapter 7 Transatlantic Artistic and Intellectual Bromance: The Bloke Modisane and Langston Hughes Connection - Siphiwo Mahala Chapter 8 Lang and Bloke: Transnational Lines of Flight - Shane Graham Chapter 9 Bloke Modisane's Cold War Intellectual Itineraries in East Africa - Siyabonga Njica Part III: Bloke Modisane in His Own Words Chapter 10 The Kwela - Jazz of the Locations - Bloke Modisane Chapter 11 Short Story Writing in Black South Africa - Bloke Modisane Chapter 12 Culture in Crisis - Bloke Modisane Chapter 13 Repatriate Me - Bloke Modisane Contributors Index.