Julia C Obert

Gebundenes Buch

The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities

Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor

Beschreibung

Obert explores the legacies of colonialism, racial segregation, and oppression in four post-colonial cities: Belfast, Windhoek, Bridgetown, and Hanoi. She uses local literary texts to demonstrate how bodies can move against repressive power through small gestures of reclamation.

Autor

Dr. Julia C. Obert is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of English at the University of Wyoming. She works primarily in the fields of postcolonial literature and theory, Irish literature, poetry and poetics, affect theory, and sound studies/acoustic ecology. Her first book, Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2015. Her writing has also appeared in a wide variety of Postcolonial Studies, Irish Studies, and critical theory volumes and journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780198881247
• ISBN-10: 019888124X
• Artikelnr.: 68168585