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AFRICAN CITY TEXTUALITIES
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| By: |
Ranka Primorac (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415852536 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415852531 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
22 May, 2013 |
| Pages: |
136 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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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Illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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