This 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.

本文重点介绍伊姆兰·库瓦迪亚 (Imraan Coovadia) 的高低中间，并探讨小说中的主角纳菲萨 (Nafisa) 和沙克尔 (Shakeer) 如何驾驭他们的当代德班。我指出，这对母子呈现出两种截然不同的主体性，它们以截然不同的方式与城市的城市环境和全球化的世界互动。两人都在城市中感受到了一种流离失所的感觉，但是，随着小说的发展，他们设法接受了德班的当代文化纠葛，并感到更加自在。Nafisa 是内城的一名医生，他通过在街道上行走来学习与城市打交道，而周游世界的摄影师 Shakeer 发现自己有能力注意到德班的地方特色以及地方、人和文化的纠缠。