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The modern city and citizen efficacy in a Zambian novel

The modern city and citizen efficacy in a Zambian novel
The modern city and citizen efficacy in a Zambian novel
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
citizen efficacy, bildungsroman, hope, urban modernity, thriller, zambia
1744-9855
49-60
Primorac, Ranka
8e175d18-8ea8-4228-8637-671427202b10
Primorac, Ranka
8e175d18-8ea8-4228-8637-671427202b10

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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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

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Published date: March 2008
Keywords: citizen efficacy, bildungsroman, hope, urban modernity, thriller, zambia

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Local EPrints ID: 79486
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/79486
DOI: doi:10.1080/17449850701820665
ISSN: 1744-9855
PURE UUID: b9cd5115-8c27-452d-9204-3cd36e1aee48
ORCID for Ranka Primorac: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1127-1175

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Date deposited: 17 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:54

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Author: Ranka Primorac ORCID iD

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