Muller, Alan2024-04-092023Alan Muller (2023) Cultural Entanglement, Displacement and Contemporary Durban in Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 35:1, 21-32, DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2023.2167402.1013-929X (print)2159-9130 (online)10.1080/1013929X.2023.2167402http://hdl.handle.net/2263/95454This article focuses on Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between and investigates how the novel’s join protagonists, Nafisa and Shakeer, navigate their contemporary Durban. The mother and son, I point out, present two disparate subjectivities that engage with both the urban milieu of the city and a globalised world in very different ways. Both experience a sense of displacement in the city, but, as thew novel progresses, they manage to embrace Durban’s contemporary cultural entanglements and feel more at home. Nafisa, a doctor in the inner city, learns to engage with the city through walking its streets while Shakeer, a globe-trotting photographer, discovers his ability to notice Durban’s local specificity and entanglement of places, people, and cultures.en© 2023 The Editorial Board, Current Writing. This is an electronic version of an article published in Current Writing, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 21-32, 2023. doi : 10.1080/1013929X.2023.2167402. Current Writing is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/rcwr20.Imraan Coovadia (1970-)High Low In-betweenEntanglementDisplacementSouth African literaturePost-apartheid literaturePostprint Article