William (Bloke) Modisane (28 August 1923 – 1 March 1986) was a South African writer, actor and journalist.

• Foreword by David AttwellIntroduction – Siyabonga Njica and Siphiwo MahalaPart I: Johannesburg, Drum and the Making of a Modern IntellectualChapter 1 Restless Spaces in Modisane’s Johannesburg – Liz GunnerChapter 2 Modisane at Marienbad: Cinema, Time, and Memory in Blame Me on History – Mark SandersChapter 3 Recovering the ‘Humour and Idiom of Damon Runyon’ in Bloke Modisane’s Writing for Drum Magazine – Colette GuldimannChapter 4 Blame the Present on History? The Depiction of South African Townships and the Façade of Democracy – Molebogeng SebeshoChapter 5 Black Ontology in Modisane’s Blame Me on History – Bafana RadebePart II: Exilic Routes and Transnational NetworksChapter 6 ‘Corns on my sitters’: Bloke Modisane’s Dramatic Exit and the Exilic Archive of South Africa – Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. KumaloChapter 7 Transatlantic Artistic and Intellectual Bromance: The Bloke Modisane and Langston Hughes Connection – Siphiwo MahalaChapter 8 Lang and Bloke: Transnational Lines of Flight – Shane GrahamChapter 9 Bloke Modisane’s Cold War Intellectual Itineraries in East Africa – Siyabonga NjicaPart III: Bloke Modisane in His Own WordsChapter 10 The Kwela – Jazz of the Locations – Bloke ModisaneChapter 11 Short Story Writing in Black South Africa – Bloke ModisaneChapter 12 Culture in Crisis – Bloke ModisaneChapter 13 Repatriate Me – Bloke ModisaneAcknowledgementsContributorsIndex

William (Bloke) Modisane (28 August 1923 – 1 March 1986) was a South African writer, actor and journalist.

• Foreword by David AttwellIntroduction – Siyabonga Njica and Siphiwo MahalaPart I: Johannesburg, Drum and the Making of a Modern IntellectualChapter 1 Restless Spaces in Modisane’s Johannesburg – Liz GunnerChapter 2 Modisane at Marienbad: Cinema, Time, and Memory in Blame Me on History – Mark SandersChapter 3 Recovering the ‘Humour and Idiom of Damon Runyon’ in Bloke Modisane’s Writing for Drum Magazine – Colette GuldimannChapter 4 Blame the Present on History? The Depiction of South African Townships and the Façade of Democracy – Molebogeng SebeshoChapter 5 Black Ontology in Modisane’s Blame Me on History – Bafana RadebePart II: Exilic Routes and Transnational NetworksChapter 6 ‘Corns on my sitters’: Bloke Modisane’s Dramatic Exit and the Exilic Archive of South Africa – Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. KumaloChapter 7 Transatlantic Artistic and Intellectual Bromance: The Bloke Modisane and Langston Hughes Connection – Siphiwo MahalaChapter 8 Lang and Bloke: Transnational Lines of Flight – Shane GrahamChapter 9 Bloke Modisane’s Cold War Intellectual Itineraries in East Africa – Siyabonga NjicaPart III: Bloke Modisane in His Own WordsChapter 10 The Kwela – Jazz of the Locations – Bloke ModisaneChapter 11 Short Story Writing in Black South Africa – Bloke ModisaneChapter 12 Culture in Crisis – Bloke ModisaneChapter 13 Repatriate Me – Bloke ModisaneAcknowledgementsContributorsIndex