Literature, planning and infrastructure: Investigating the southern city through postcolonial texts

Literature, planning and infrastructure: Investigating the southern city through postcolonial texts

This article explores the ways in which postcolonial literary and other cultural texts navigate, decode and in some cases re-imagine the infrastructures that organize urban life, particularly in the postcolonial cities of Johannesburg, London and Delhi. Readings of Ivan Vladislavić, Mark Gevisser Br...

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Main Authors:	Boehmer, E, Davies, D
Format:	Journal article
Published:	Routledge 2015

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