Quayson Oxford Street, Accra

City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7629-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district and a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quayson, Ato

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction. Urban Theory and Performative Streetscapes 1

Part I. Horizontal Archaeologies

1. Ga Akutso Formation and the Question of Hybridity: The Afro-Brazilians (Tabon) of Accra 37

2. The Spatial Fix: Colonial Administration, Disaster Management, and Land-Use Distribution in Early Twentieth-Century Accra 64

3. Osu borla no, sardine chensii soo: Danes, Euro-Africans, and the Transculturation of Osu 98

Part II. Morphologies of Everyday Life

4. "The Beautyful Ones": Tro-tro Slogans, Cell Phone Advertising, and the Hallelujah Chorus 129

5. "Este loco, loco": Transnationalism and the Shaping of Accra's Salsa Scene 159

6. Pumping Irony: Gymming, the Kòbòlò, and the Cultural Economy of Free Time 183

7. The Lettered City: Literary Representations of Accra 213

Conclusion. On Urban Free Time: Vladimir, Estragon, and Rem Koolhaas 239

Appendix. Tro-tro Inscriptions 251

Notes 255

References 279

Index 293

Über Autor(innen)

Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing, Calibrations: Reading for the Social, and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation, as well as editor of the two-volume Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, coeditor of A Companion to Diaspora and Transnational Studies, and General Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.