Introduction. -- Culture from the Inside -- 'Step up for your Hustle': Aspiration and Frustration in the New South Africa -- Empowerment: Popular Romance and the New Black Middle Class -- Writing Crime: Threat, Class, and the Rule of Law -- Indigenous Knowledge and the Narrative Art of Recuperation -- Love in the Time of Land Reform -- Xenophobia and Xenophilia: Migrancy and the Politics of Contemporary Citizenship -- Conclusion