Literature, planning and infrastructure: Investigating the southern city through postcolonial texts.

This article explores the ways in which postcolonial literary and other cultural texts navigate, decode and in some cases re-imagine the infrastructures that organize urban life, particularly in the postcolonial cities of Johannesburg, London and Delhi. Readings of Ivan Vladislavić, Mark Gevisser Br...

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Publicado en:Journal of Postcolonial Writing Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 395 - 410
Autores principales: Boehmer, Elleke, Davies, Dominic
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2015
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