Gerald Gaylard

At Home with Ivan Vladislavic (eBook, PDF)

An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

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Produktbeschreibung

At Home With Ivan Vladislavic is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavic. Bringing a flaneur's "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavic established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur's deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavic created a culture of sustainability.

Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000854046
• Artikelnr.: 67454751

Autorenporträt

Gerald Gaylard is a Professor of English at the University of the Witwatersrand. Author of After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism (2006) and editor of Marginal Spaces: Reading Ivan Vladislavic (2011), he has published primarily in the area of postcolonial culture, literature, and aesthetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Ivan Vladislavi¿'s Biography
Historical Formalism: A Methodology
Introduction
Monuments and Resistance
Missing Persons
The Folly
Propaganda by Monuments
An African Flaneur
The Restless Supermarket
The Exploded View
Portrait with Keys
Ecologies of Home
The Loss Library, A Labour of Moles, Milnerton Market
Double Negative
101 Detectives
The Distance
The Story Continues From Here...
Bibliography
Index