The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of'world literature', considered as a
revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the …

Global cities, like New York, San Salvador, or Shanghai, have served as criti-cal sites for the
remixing and reassembling of racial identities. This has taken specific and concrete form in …

This paper offers a commentary on the papers in this special issue, drawing out the ways in
which they bring forward tactics for comparative and global urbanism, contributing to urban …

Fictional dystopias generally portray imaginary places. And yet one of the common
strategies of the genre is to create plausible futures, taking the reader from a more or less …

The specificities of the African metropolis, or “Afropolis”, have been recently debated by a
number of influential theorists of globalization and urban growth. This article registers these …

This article argues for the importance of the «system of automobility» to critical cultural
studies of Johannesburg, sub-Saharan Africa's most globalized city. Using Ivan Vladislavić's …

The article explores the literary significance of Johannesburg in the writing of Ivan
Vladislavić in the context of recent debates about how to read the African city. In his most …

At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan
Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur's" internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić …

Critics of Vladislavić's early fiction have tended toward dehistoricized textual readings
focusing on the author's clear preoccupation with words and word games. Such readings …

“Propaganda by Monuments” was published in Staffrider magazine in 1992, and is the first
example of Ivan Vladislavić's experiments with collage techniques, an interest he has …