At Home with Ivan Vladislavić
An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City
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2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-33291-8 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-33291-8 (ISBN)
This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s sensitivity and deep word hoard to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić developed an "internal GPS" and a minimalist style, which helped him to establish a critical sense of home and to create a culture of sustainability.
At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić 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, Vladislavić 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.
At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić 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, Vladislavić 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.
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 Vladislavić (2011), he has published primarily in the area of postcolonial culture, literature, and aesthetics.
Ivan Vladislavić’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
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature |
Zusatzinfo | 4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 648 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-032-33291-3 / 1032332913 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-33291-8 / 9781032332918 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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