Johannesburg : the elusive metropolis / edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe ; with an afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.

Other author Nuttall, Sarah.
Other author Mbembe, Achille, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Descriptionviii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
General note"A public culture book"--Prelim. p.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-373) and index.
LCCN 2008019636
ISBN9780822342625 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822342626 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper)