Johannesburg The Elusive Metropolis

Name: Johannesburg The Elusive Metropolis
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ISBN: 9780822342847

ISBN-10: 0822342847

ISBN-13: 9780822342847

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sarah Nuttall, Achille Mbembe

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This volume attempts to overturn perceptions that frame Africa as an object apart from the rest of the world. By placing the city of Johannesburg at the heart of a new critical urban theory, it broadens discussions of modernity, cosmopolitanism, and urban renewal to include Africa.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Sarah Nuttall is associate professor of literary and cultural studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa).



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Afropolis




Aesthetics of Superfluity




People as Infrastructure




Stylizing the Self




Gandhi, Mandela, and the African Modern




Art Johannesburg and Its Objects




The Suffering Body of the City




Literary City



Voice Lines


Instant City



Soweto Now



The Arrivants



Johannesburg, Metropolis of Mozambique



Sounds in the City



Nocturnal Johannesburg



Megamalls, Generic City



Yeoville Confidential



From the Ruins



Reframing Township Space



Afterword: The Risk of Johannesburg



Bibliography


Contributors


Additional Illustration Credits


Index