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At Home with Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City book cover

1st Edition

At Home with Ivan Vladislavić An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

By Gerald Gaylard Copyright 2023
264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić 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... Read more

Ivan Vladislavić’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

Biography

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 Vladislavić (2011), he has published primarily in the area of postcolonial culture, literature, and aesthetics.

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