Abstract A generation of South Africa's new black middle class shuttles between the suburbs and the townships. This has become the focus of some South African humorous essayists, among them Ndumiso Ngcobo and Fred Khumalo, on whose works this article is based. The article argues that studying the new black middle class should extend to these literary sources and approaches. The humorous essays by these two authors consistently reference metaphors of mobility and the vexed intersection of black middle-classness, consumption, racialized residential zoning and compromised status. Through the mode of humour, the essays evince the psychological burdens borne by those with township roots but who live in the suburbs, as they negotiate status inconsistency in a post-apartheid search for human dignity. Constant visits to the township and the retreat to the suburbs constitute negotiations of spatial, financial and psychic concerns imbricated in the legacies of apartheid's racialized politics of distinction.

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在郊区和乡镇之间穿梭：南非新的黑人中产阶级谈判阶级和种族隔离后的黑人

摘要 一代南非新的黑人中产阶级穿梭在郊区和乡镇之间。这已成为一些南非幽默散文家关注的焦点，其中包括 Ndumiso Ngcobo 和 Fred Khumalo，本文基于他们的作品。文章认为，研究新的黑人中产阶级应该扩展到这些文学来源和方法。这两位作者的幽默文章始终如一地引用了流动性的隐喻，以及黑人中产阶级、消费、种族化的住宅区划和妥协地位之间令人烦恼的交集。通过幽默的方式，这些文章展示了那些出身乡镇但住在郊区的人所承受的心理负担，因为他们在种族隔离后寻求人类尊严的过程中协商地位不一致。