Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities - Urban Planning, Imperial Power, Improvisational Itineraries of Poor

Obert explores the legacies of colonialism, racial segregation, and oppression in four post-colonial cities: Belfast, Windhoek, Bridgetown, and Hanoi. She uses local literary texts to demonstrate how bodies can move against repressive power through small gestures of reclamation.

List of contents

• Introduction: Postcolonial Psychogeographies


• 1: "The grain of the city": Architectures of Subjection and Subversion in Belfast, Northern Ireland


• 2: 'Ghost Spaces': The Colonial and Neocolonial Faces of Windhoek, Namibia


• 3: Of Cruise Ships and Chattel Houses: Built Space in Bridgetown, Barbados


• 4: The Thirty-Six Streets: Domination, Resistance, and the Power of Place in Hanoi, Vietnam


• Conclusion: Stuctural Violence and Ecological Agency


• Works cited

About the author

Dr. Julia C. Obert is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of English at the University of Wyoming. She works primarily in the fields of postcolonial literature and theory, Irish literature, poetry and poetics, affect theory, and sound studies/acoustic ecology. Her first book, Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2015. Her writing has also appeared in a wide variety of Postcolonial Studies, Irish Studies, and critical theory volumes and journals.

Summary

Obert explores the legacies of colonialism, racial segregation, and oppression in four post-colonial cities: Belfast, Windhoek, Bridgetown, and Hanoi. She uses local literary texts to demonstrate how bodies can move against repressive power through small gestures of reclamation.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Julia C. (Associate Professor Obert, Julia C. Obert, Julia C. (Associate Professor Obert, Obert Julia C.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2023
• EAN: 9780198881247
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888124-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; EDUCATION / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, History of Architecture, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Theory of architecture, Literary studies: postcolonial literature