At Home with Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

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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 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, Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Ivan Vladislavić's Biography Historical Formalism: A Methodology Introduction Home The Virtual City Internal GPS Etymological Technique Notes and Collages Editing Inappropriate Influences Affectionate Satire Part I: Monuments and Resistance 1. Missing Persons The Prime Minister is Dead Journal of a Wall The Box We Came to the Monument A Science of Fragments Tsafendas's Diary The Terminal Bar 2. The Folly 3. Propaganda by Monuments The Tuba Propaganda by Monuments Autopsy The WHITES ONLY Bench The Omniscope (Pat. Pending) The Book Lover Alphabets for Surplus People Courage Kidnapped The Firedogs Part II: An African Flaneur 4. The Restless Supermarket 5. The Exploded View Villa Toscana Afritude Sauce Curiouser Crocodile Lodge 6. Portrait with Keys Part III: Ecologies of Home 7. The Loss Library, A Labour of Moles, and Milnerton Market Ponte City 8. Double Negative 9. 101 Detectives The Fugu-Eaters Hair Shirt 101 Detectives Exit Strategy Mountain Landscape Lullaby The Reading Deleted Scenes 10. The Distance 11. The Story Continues from Here ... The Rainbow Years and Beyond Satirical Minimalism Slow Writing and Reading in the City Bibliography Primary Works Secondary Works Index