Johannesburg

The Elusive Metropolis
Herausgeber: Nuttall, Sarah; Mbembe, Achille

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Produktbeschreibung

Collection of scholarly and creative essays on Johannesburg that focus on the city's modern and cosmopolitan status within Africa and the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342625
• ISBN-10: 0822342626
• Artikelnr.: 23881658

Autorenporträt

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is the author of Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-Apartheid (forthcoming) and an editor of several books, including Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics, also published by Duke University Press. Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at WISER. He is the author of On the Postcolony and La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun and a co-editor of Le politique par le bas en Afrique noire.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Afropolis / Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall 1
1. Aesthetics of Superfluity / Achille Mbembe 37
2. People as Infrastructure / Abdoumaliq Simone 68
3. Stylizing the Self / Sarah Nuttall 91
4. Gandhi, Mandela, and the African Modern / Jonathan Hyslop 119
5. Art Johannesburg and Its Objects / David Bunn 137
6. The Suffering Body of the City / Frédéric Le Marcis 170
7. Literary City / Sarah Nuttall 195
Voice Lines
Instant City / John Matshikiza 221
Soweto Now / Achille Mbembe, Nsizwa Dlamini, and Grace Khunou 239
The Arrivants / Tom Odhiambo and Robert Muponde 248
Johannesburg, Metropolis of Mozambique / Stefan Helgesson 259
Sounds in the City / Xavier Livermon 271
Nocturnal Johannesburg / Julia Hornberger 285
Megamalls, Generic City / Fred De Vries 297
Yeoville Confidential / Achal Prabhala 307
From the Ruins / Mark Gevisser 317
Reframing Township Space / Lindsay Bremner 337
Afterword: The Risk of Johannesburg / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A.
Breckenridge 349
Bibliography 355
Contributors 375
Index