1st Edition

Claiming the City in South African Literature

By Meg Samuelson Copyright 2022
126 Pages
by Routledge India

126 Pages
by Routledge India

126 Pages
by Routledge India

This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly to the study of cities of the South. Starting from the claim staked by mining capital in the late nineteenth century and its production of extractive and segregated cities, it surveys over a century of writing in search of counterclaims through which the literature reimagines the city... Read more

1. Introduction  2. All that glitters  3. Light city, dark city  4. Resistant cities  5. Reassembling the city

Biography

Meg Samuelson is Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Associate Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has published widely in South African, African, Global South and oceanic literary and cultural studies.