Imagining the Edgy City
Title | Imagining the Edgy City PDF eBook |
Author | Loren Kruger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199321906 |
Drawing on over fifty years of writing, performance, film, architecture, photography, and culture more broadly, Imagining the Edgy City offers a compelling interdisciplinary study of South Africa's largest city.
Imagining the Edgy City
Title | Imagining the Edgy City PDF eBook |
Author | Loren Kruger (Professor of English, University of Chicago (1999)) |
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Release | 2013 |
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Imagining the City
Title | Imagining the City PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Nelson |
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Pages | 101 |
Release | 2001 |
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The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Ato Quayson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2023-07-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316517888 |
This book addresses the way cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions that are central to debates in World Literature.
Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema
Title | Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Addamms Mututa |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2021-10-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 100046220X |
This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films, the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region. The book employs film criticism and semiotics as devices to decode contemporary cultures of African cities, with a specific focus on crisis. Drawing on a variety of contemporary theories on cities of the global south, especially Africa, the book sifts through nuances of crisis urbanism within postmillennial African films. In doing so the book offers unique perspectives that move beyond the confines of sociological or anthropological studies of cities. It argues that crisis has become a mainstay reality of African cities and thus occupies a central place in the way these cities may be theorized or imagined. The book considers crises of six African cities: nonentity in post-apartheid Johannesburg, laissez faire economies of Kinshasa, urban commons in Nairobi, hustlers in postwar Monrovia, latent revolt in Cairo, and cantonments in postwar Luanda, which offer useful insights on African cities today. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of urban studies, urban geography, urban sociology, cultural studies, and media studies.
Cities in Flux
Title | Cities in Flux PDF eBook |
Author | Olivier Moreillon |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3643802412 |
The essays in this volume all circle around questions of urbanisation in (post-)apartheid South Africa and its effects on the country's socio-political realities, as well as its representation in-and effect on-the country's literary and artistic production. The included essays discuss the constant flow of people (not only into, within, and out of a city, but also between different cities), the continuously changing conditions (both physical and immaterial as well as past and present) of (South) Africa's urban areas, and these shifting conditions' effects on (South) Africa's cities. (Series: Swiss African Studies / Schweizerische Afrikastudien - Etudes africaines suisses, Vol. 12) [Subject: African Studies, Urban Studies, Sociology]
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
Title | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Tambling |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 1977 |
Release | 2022-10-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319624199 |
This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.