At Home with Ivan Vladislavi¿

An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-33291-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

At Home With Ivan Vladislavic is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavic. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavic established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavic created a culture of sustainability.

Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaylard, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ivan Vladislavic’s Biography

Historical Formalism: A Methodology

Introduction

Monuments and Resistance

Missing Persons

The Folly

Propaganda by Monuments

An African Flaneur

The Restless Supermarket

The Exploded View

Portrait with Keys

Ecologies of Home

The Loss Library, A Labour of Moles, Milnerton Market

Double Negative

101 Detectives

The Distance



The Story Continues From Here…

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gerald Gaylard is a Professor of English at the University of the Witwatersrand. Author of After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism (2006) and editor of Marginal Spaces: Reading Ivan Vladislavic (2011), he has published primarily in the area of postcolonial culture, literature, and aesthetics.