South and North

Kerry Bystrom is Professor of English and Human Rights and Associate Dean of the College at Bard College Berlin, a Liberal Arts University, Germany. Her research is rooted in South and Southern African literary and cultural studies, with a current project on the cultural politics of the Cold War South Atlantic. Ashleigh Harris is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden. Harris publishes in the field of Southern African, particularly Zimbabwean literature. She is primary investigator in a research project titled ‘African Street Literatures and the Future of Literary Form’, funded by the Swedish Research Council and based at Uppsala University, Sweden. Andrew J. Webber is Professor of Modern German and Comparative Culture at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His research ranges widely over modern German-language visual and textual culture, with comparative and interdisciplinary interests, and a particular focus on urban studies.

1. Introduction 2. Detachment Down South: On Salvage Operations and City-making 3. The Agency of Materials and the Future of Politics in the Shanty-town of the Global South 4. Ideological Disorientation and Urban Struggle in Postwar Luanda: Notes on Neto’s Mausoleum 5. Gentrification in Rio: Multiple Trajectories and Narratives in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas after ‘Pacification’ Policies 6. Village Delhi 7. The University, the Novel Form, Literary Life and the Urban Global South 8. Terminal City: Immaterial Migrations, Virtual Detachments and the North–South Divide (Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer, 2008) 9. Postcolonial Dandies and the Death of the Flâneur 10. Globalized Parisian Spaces: Disability and Mobility in The Untouchables (2011) 11. A Sense of Disorder: Orientation and Migration in the ‘New’ West 12. Dark Truths in East German Towns in Times of Islamophobia 13. Entanglements and Dispersals: Occidental Power and the Vicissitudes of Displacement