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Author Kruger, Loren, author.

Title Imagining the edgy city : writing, performing, and building Johannesburg / Loren Kruger
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 274 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations, Glossary, and Linguistic Conventions; Introduction: Imagining the Edgy City; 1. 1936: Africa's Wonder City; 2. 1956: Genres of Johannesburg; 3. 1976: Soweto Erupts into Johannesburg; 4. 1996: Edgy City; 5. 2012: City in the World; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary This study of Johannesburg examines writing, performing, building, and urban spatial practices and their agents, whose cosmopolitan diversity and capacity for invention challenge the normativity of modernity in the global north. It begins with the Empire Exhibition of 1936, and moves on to explore artistic creative responses to the rise of apartheid particularly in Sophiatown around 1956; poetry and performance around the Soweto uprising of 1976, and fictional and visual responses to the crime and disorder of 1996. It concludes with an evaluation of artists and planners collaborating in urban renewal projects in 2012
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Art and society -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- History -- 20th century
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- South Africa Johannesburg -- History -- 20th century
Literature and society -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- History -- 20th century
Theater and society -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- History -- 20th century
Urbanization -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
Art and society
Intellectual life
Literature and society
Theater and society
Urbanization
SUBJECT Johannesburg (South Africa) -- History -- 20th century
Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject South Africa -- Johannesburg
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199321919
0199321914
9780199369270
0199369275