Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9783030404031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 349 str.

Elleke Boehmer; Dominic Davies

Spis treści

1 Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature and Culture Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies Section I Planned/Unplanned Cities .- 2 White Cities, Black Streets: Planned Violence and Native Maps in Richard Wright's Chicago and Modikwe Dikobe's Johannesburg 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: Isolarion Ten 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 Layne 10 '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 Ranasinha 15 '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 Mukherjee.- 17 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.

O autorze

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of five monographs and five novels, including, among the former, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995, 2005), Nelson Mandela (2008), and Indian Arrivals 1870-1915 (2015), and, among the latter, The Shouting in the Dark (long-listed Sunday Times Barry Ronge prize), Screens against the Sky (short-listed David Hyam Prize), and Bloodlines (shortlisted SANLAM prize). She has edited and co-edited numerous books, including Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys (2004).
Dominic Davies is Lecturer in English at City, University of London, UK. He completed his DPhil and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford. During this time he was also the Network Facilitator for the Leverhulme-funded 'Planned Violence' Network and the British Council US and TORCH-funded 'Divided Cities' Network. He is the author of Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 (2017) and Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (forthcoming 2019).