Street Archives and City Life - Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania

Emily Callaci is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. TANU, African Socialism, and the City Idea  18
2. "All Alone in the Big City": Elite Women, "Working Girls," and Struggles over Domesticity, Reproduction, and Urban Space  59
3. Dar after Dark: Dance, Desire, and Conspicuous Consumption in Dar es Salaam's Nightlife  102
4, Lovers and Fighters: Pulp-Fiction Publishing and the Transformation of Urban Masculinity  141
5. From Socialist to Street-Smart: A Changing Urban Lexicon  180
Conclusion  207
Notes  215
Bibliography  253
Index  277

About the author

Emily Callaci is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Summary

Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid-twentieth-century Tanzanian cities. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party adopted a policy of rural socialism—Ujamaa—an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of street archives.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Callaci
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780822369844
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6984-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Radical Perspectives; Radical Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous