Postcolonial Cities: Africa
Volume 5 Number 1
Description
This special issue on African cities is alert to the contradictions intrinsic to the contemporary Afriocan urban experience. The essays and creative writings explore urban growth, Casablanca, post-apartheid South Africa, and the cruelty, corruption and failure of the post-colonial city.
Contents
EDITORIAL DRAMA Brendon Nicholls , Reintroducing Tsitsi Dangarembga’s
She No Longer Weeps
FICTION Jackee Budesta Batanda , City LinkBrian Chikwava , Dancing to The Jazz Goblin & His RhythmLiz Gunner , Bettina’s LegsPOETRY ARTICLES Duncan Brown , Narrative, Memory, and Mapping:
Ronnie Govender’s ‘At the Edge’ and Other Cato Manor Stories
Carrol Clarkson , Visible and Invisible:
What Surfaces in Recent Johannesburg Novels?
M.J. Daymond , From a Shadow City: Lilian Ngoyi’s Letters, 1971-1980,
Orlando, Soweto
Brian T. Edwards , Following Casablanca:
Recasting the Postcolonial City
Said Graiouid , Creative Deviations in a Global Market:
Undocumented Cultures and Moroccan Identities
Andrew M. Ivaska , Contesting ‘National Culture’:
The Short Life of a Tanzanian Ban on ‘Soul’
Abdellatif Khayati , Picturing the Urban Homeless in CasablancaUlrike Hanna Meinhof and Zafimahaleo Rasolofondraosolo ,
Malagasy Song-Writer Musicians in Transnational Settings
Jane Plastow , Making Theatre in the Opera House, Asmara, EritreaPolly Savage , El Anatsui: Texts, Contexts, Textiles and GinCheryl Stobie , Somatics, Space, Surprise: Creative Dissonance in
Barbara Adair’s In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot
REVIEWS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Moving Worlds is a biannual international magazine, and is a forum for creative work as well as criticism, literary as well as visual texts. Each issue highlights a particular theme and also carries material of general interest. The journal is internationally refereed and is published by Moving Worlds at the School of English, University of Leeds, UK, and School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU, Singapore.