At Home with Ivan Vladislavić

An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

Gerald Gaylard

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000854091
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: African Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

At Home With Ivan Vladislavi? is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavi?. Bringing a flaneur's "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavi? established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur's deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavi? created a culture of sustainability.

Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Ivan Vladislavić’s Biography
• Historical Formalism: A Methodology
• Introduction
• Part I: Monuments and Resistance
• Part II: An African Flaneur
• Part III: Ecologies of Home