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Planned violence = post/colonial urban infrastructure, literature and culture /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Planned violence/ edited by Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies.
Reminder of title:	post/colonial urban infrastructure, literature and culture /
other author:	Boehmer, Elleke.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	xxii, 349 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91388-9
ISBN:	9783319913889

Planned violence = post/colonial urban infrastructure, literature and culture /
Planned violencepost/colonial urban infrastructure, literature and culture /[electronic resource] :edited by Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xxii, 349 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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 Mieville Terence Cave -- 18 Aquacity Versus Austerity: The Politics and Poetics of Irish Water Michael Rubenstein -- 19 Intervention III. Control Courttia Newland -- 20 Afterword Sarah Nuttall Index.

This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary narratives of urban culture and theories of literary cultural production. In so doing, it explores new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between urban planning, its often violent effects, and literature. Comparing the spatial pasts and presents of the post-imperial and post/colonial cities of London, Delhi and Johannesburg, but also including case studies of other cities, such as Chicago, Belfast, Jerusalem and Mumbai, Planned Violence investigates how that iconic site of modernity, the colonial city, was imagined by its planners -- and how this urban imagination, and the cultural and social interventions that arose in response to it, made violence a part of the everyday social life of its subjects. Throughout, however, the collection also explores the extent to which literary and cultural productions might actively resist infrastructures of planned violence, and imagine alternative ways of inhabiting post/colonial city spaces.

ISBN: 9783319913889

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-91388-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

556920
English literature
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PR408.V54 / P536 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9358209732

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