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 Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. |
| Description | viii, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-373) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008019636 |
| ISBN | 9780822342625 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822342626 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper) |