Sarah Nuttall, Achille Mbembe

Gebundenes Buch

Johannesburg

The Elusive Metropolis

Herausgeber: Nuttall, Sarah; Mbembe, Achille

Beschreibung

Collection of scholarly and creative essays on Johannesburg that focus on the city's modern and cosmopolitan status within Africa and the world.

Autor

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is the author of Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-Apartheid (forthcoming) and an editor of several books, including Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics, also published by Duke University Press. Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at WISER. He is the author of On the Postcolony and La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun and a co-editor of Le politique par le bas en Afrique noire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342625
• ISBN-10: 0822342626
• Artikelnr.: 23881658