Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 3319913883
• ISBN-13: 9783319913889
• Author: Dominic Davies, Elleke Boehmer

This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary narratives of urban culture and theories of literary cultural production. In so doing, it explores new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between urban planning, its often violent effects, and literature. Comparing the spatial pasts and presents of the post-imperial and post/colonial cities of London, Delhi and Johannesburg, but also including case studies of other cities, such as Chicago, Belfast, Jerusalem and Mumbai, Planned Violence investigates how that iconic site of modernity, the colonial city, was imagined by its planners — and how this urban imagination, and the cultural and social interventions that arose in response to it, made violence a part of the everyday social life of its subjects. Throughout, however, the collection also explores the extent to which literary and cultural productions might actively resist infrastructures of planned violence, and imagine alternative ways of inhabiting post/colonial city spaces.

Table contents:

1. Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature and Culture
Section I. Section I
2. White Cities, Black Streets: Planned Violence and Native Maps in Richard Wright’s Chicago and Modikwe Dikobe’s Johannesburg
3. Grey Space, Tahrir Laser: Conspiracy, Critique and the Urban in Julie Mehretu’s Depictions of Revolutionary Cairo
4. Thames Valley Royal (or, Maxwell in Oxford): The Story of a Football Club and the History of a City
5. Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny
6. The Not-so-Quiet Violence of Bricks and Mortar
7. Intervention I. What You Find in the River: Isolarion Ten Years On
Section II. Section II
8. The Intimacy of Infrastructure: Vulnerability and Abjection in Palestinian Jerusalem
9. Sound Systems and Other Systems: The Policing of Urban Aesthetic Spaces in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson
10. ‘Throwing Petrol on the Fire’: Writing in the Shadow of the Belfast Urban Motorway
11. Writing the City and Indian English Fiction: Planning, Violence, and Aesthetics
12. Blue Johannesburg
13. Intervention II. Take Me There
Section III. Section III
14. ‘A Shadow Class Condemned to Movement’: Literary Urban Imaginings of Illegal Migrant Lives in the Global North
15. ‘A Dagger, a Revolver, a Bottle of Chloroform’: Colonial Spy Fiction, Revolutionary Reminiscences and Indian Nationalist Terrorism in Europe
16. Detecting World-Literature: (Sub-)Urban Crimes in the Nineteenth Century
17. Weird Collocations: Language as Infrastructure in the Storyworlds of China Miéville
18. Aquacity Versus Austerity: The Politics and Poetics of Irish Water
19. Intervention III. Control
20. Afterword

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