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.
Author(s): Gerald Gaylard
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 264
City: New York
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
