Planned violence : post/colonial urban infrastructure, literature and culture /: post/colonial urban infrastructure, literature and culture. (2018)
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- Title:
- Planned violence : post/colonial urban infrastructure, literature and culture /: post/colonial urban infrastructure, literature and culture. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Planned violence : post/colonial urban infrastructure, literature and culture
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies.
- Editors:
- Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-
Davies, Dominic, 1988- - Contents:
- 1 Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature and Culture Elleke Boehmer and Dominic DaviesSection I Planned/Unplanned Cities .- 2 White Cities, Black Streets: Planned Violence and Native Maps in Richard Wright's Chicago and Modikwe Dikobe'sJohannesburg Loren Kruger.- 3 Grey Space, Tahrir Laser: Conspiracy, Critique and the Urban in Julie Mehretu's Depictions of Revolutionary Cairo Nicholas Simcik Arese.- 4 Thames Valley Royal (or, Maxwell in Oxford): The Story of a Football Club and the History of a City William Ghosh.- 5 Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny Ankhi Mukherjee.- 6 The Not-so-Quiet Violence of Bricks and Mortar Zen Marie.- 7 Intervention I. What You Find in the River: IsolarionTen Years On James Attlee Section II Forensic Infrastructures .- 8 The Intimacy of Infrastructure: Vulnerability and Abjection in Palestinian Jerusalem Hanna Baumann.- 9 Sound Systems and Other Systems: The Policing of Urban Aesthetic Spaces in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson Louisa Olufsen Layne10 'Throwing Petrol on the Fire': Writing in the Shadow of the Belfast Urban Motorway Stephen O'Neill .- 11 Writing the City and Indian English Fiction: Planning, Violence, and Aesthetics Alex Tickell 12 Blue Johannesburg Pamila Gupta.- 13 Intervention II. Take Me There Selma Dabbagh Section III Structural Violence, Narrative Structure .- 14 'A Shadow Class Condemned to Movement': Literary Urban Imaginings of Illegal Migrant Lives in the Global North Ruvani Ranasinha15 'A1 Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature and Culture Elleke Boehmer and Dominic DaviesSection I Planned/Unplanned Cities .- 2 White Cities, Black Streets: Planned Violence and Native Maps in Richard Wright's Chicago and Modikwe Dikobe'sJohannesburg Loren Kruger.- 3 Grey Space, Tahrir Laser: Conspiracy, Critique and the Urban in Julie Mehretu's Depictions of Revolutionary Cairo Nicholas Simcik Arese.- 4 Thames Valley Royal (or, Maxwell in Oxford): The Story of a Football Club and the History of a City William Ghosh.- 5 Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny Ankhi Mukherjee.- 6 The Not-so-Quiet Violence of Bricks and Mortar Zen Marie.- 7 Intervention I. What You Find in the River: IsolarionTen Years On James Attlee Section II Forensic Infrastructures .- 8 The Intimacy of Infrastructure: Vulnerability and Abjection in Palestinian Jerusalem Hanna Baumann.- 9 Sound Systems and Other Systems: The Policing of Urban Aesthetic Spaces in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson Louisa Olufsen Layne10 'Throwing Petrol on the Fire': Writing in the Shadow of the Belfast Urban Motorway Stephen O'Neill .- 11 Writing the City and Indian English Fiction: Planning, Violence, and Aesthetics Alex Tickell 12 Blue Johannesburg Pamila Gupta.- 13 Intervention II. Take Me There Selma Dabbagh Section III Structural Violence, Narrative Structure .- 14 'A Shadow Class Condemned to Movement': Literary Urban Imaginings of Illegal Migrant Lives in the Global North Ruvani Ranasinha15 'A Dagger, a Revolver, a Bottle of Chloroform': Colonial Spy Fiction, Revolutionary Reminiscences and Indian Nationalist Terrorism in Europe Ole Birk Laursen.- 16 Detecting World-Literature: (Sub-)Urban Crimes in the Nineteenth Century Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee17 Weird Collocations: Language as Infrastructure in the Storyworlds of China Miéville Terence Cave.- 18 Aquacity Versus Austerity: The Politics and Poetics ofIrish Water Michael Rubenstein.- 19 Intervention III. Control Courttia Newland.- 20 Afterword Sarah Nuttall Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 820.9358209732
English literature -- 20th century -- History and cricitism
Cities and towns in literature
Violence in literature
Cities and towns -- Political aspects -- History
Violence -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319913889
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783319913872
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