The modern city and citizen efficacy in a Zambian novel
Primorac, Ranka (2008) The modern city and citizen efficacy in a Zambian novel. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 44, (1), 49-60. (doi:10.1080/17449850701820665).
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Description/Abstract
Arguing against the grain of established critical opinion, this article analyses the textual
complexity and cosmopolitanism of a contemporary Zambian novel, Dead Ends (Crime, Cops
and a Renaissance) by Sekelani S. Banda, focusing on its representation of the modern city
and citizen efficacy. Through Banda’s deft handling of narrative time and genre Dead Ends
contributes to Southern Africa’s emergent social imaginaries by constructing hope as a social
category predicated on the time-streams of both detection and emergence
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSNs: | 1744-9855 (print) |
| Keywords: | citizen efficacy, bildungsroman, hope, urban modernity, thriller, zambia |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > English |
| Item ID: | 79486 |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2012 12:34 |
| Contributors: | Primorac, Ranka (Author) |
| Date: | March 2008 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | R.Primorac@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/79486 |
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