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African City Textualities

Editat de Ranka Primorac
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 iul 2009
The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural productions which participate in modernity and its dynamics of global flows and exchanges. This volume merges the concerns of urban, literary and cultural studies by focusing on the flows and exchanges of texts and textual elements. By analysing how texts such as popular and canonical fiction, popular music, self-help pamphlets, graffiti, films, journalistic writing, rumours and urban legends engage with the problems of citizenship, self-organisation and survival, the collection shows that despite all the problems of Africa, its cities continue to engender forward-looking creativity and hope. The texts collected here belong to several different genres themselves, and they are authored by both distinguished and younger scholars, based in and outside of Africa. The volume explores the textualities emerging from the cities of Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Above all, it calls for an end to disabling hierarchical categorisations of both texts and cities.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415481557
ISBN-10: 0415481554
Pagini: 130
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction: City, text, future  Ranka Primorac  2. A city that keeps a country going: In praise of Dakar  Donal Cruise O’Brien  3. Corresponding with the city: Self-help literature in urban West Africa  Stephanie Newell  4. Philly Lutaaya: Popular music and the fight against HIV/AIDS in Uganda  Joel Isabirye  5. Remapping urban modernities: Julie Ward’s death and the Kenyan grapevine  Grace A. Musila  6. The modern city and citizen efficacy in a Zambian novel  Ranka Primorac  7. Lusaka  Laura Miti-Banda  8. The urban palimpsest: Re-presenting Sophiatown  Meg Samuelson  9. Myth and legend in urban oral memory: Bulawayo, 1930–60  Terence Ranger  10. Ivan Vladislavic and the possible city  James Graham  11. City, identity and dystopia: Writing Lagos in contemporary Nigerian novels  Rita Nnodim  12. Afterword: Modernity and transformation in African cities  Jennifer Robinson

Descriere

A path-breaking collection of essays on city texts and cultures, this anthology merges the concerns of urban, cultural and literary studies and engages with a multiplicity of African contexts.