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African City Textualities
Engelsk
Bogcover for African City Textualities af , 9780415852531
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9780415852531
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415852536
Udg. Dato:
31 maj 2013
Størrelse i cm:
17,6 x 24,4 x 1,0
Oplagsdato:
31 maj 2013
Paperback 2013
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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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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9780415852531
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415852536
Udg. Dato:
31 maj 2013
Størrelse i cm:
17,6 x 24,4 x 1,0
Oplagsdato:
31 maj 2013
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