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Johannesburg : the elusive metropolis
- Title
- Johannesburg : the elusive metropolis / edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe ; with an afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 09-1308 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- viii, 398 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A public culture book"--Prelim. p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-373) and index.
- Contents
- Aesthetics of superfluity / Achille Mbembe -- People as infrastructure / Abdoumaliq Simone -- Stylizing the self / Sarah Nuttall -- Gandhi, Mandela, and the African modern / Jonathan Hyslop -- Art Johannesburg and its objects / David Bunn -- The suffering body of the city / Frédéric le Marcis -- Literary city / Sarah Nuttall.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-1308
- ISBN
- 9780822342625 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822342626 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008019636
- OCLC
- 209334991
- Title
- Johannesburg : the elusive metropolis / edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe ; with an afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.
- Imprint
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-373) and index.
- Added Author
- Nuttall, Sarah.Mbembe, Achille, 1957-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-1308