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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Postcolonial Writing Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 395 - 410 |
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Aug2015
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