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Zoo City
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Author : Lauren Beukes
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-11-29
Zoo City written by Lauren Beukes and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-29 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE 2011 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD Lauren Beukes' tale of a young woman trapped in a brutal city but looking for a way out . . . 'A major, major talent' George R. R. Martin *** Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheque, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job - missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions reside. Instead it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives - including her own. Look out for AFTERLAND, the new novel by Lauren Beukes *** 'Beukes is very *very* good. It feels effortless, utterly accomplished' William Gibson 'Beukes brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now' Guardian 'Exquisitely paced and impeccably controlled. An enormously satisfying novel' New York Times Book Review
Zoo City
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Author : Lauren Beukes
language : en
Publisher: Jacana Media
Release Date : 2010
Zoo City written by Lauren Beukes and has been published by Jacana Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Science fiction, South African categories.
"Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things. To save herself, she has to find the hardest thing of all - the truth. Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a client turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job - missing persons. Being hired by famously reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass, marked by their animals, live in the shadow of the undertow. Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the underbelly of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives - including her own. Set in a wildly re-imagined Johannesburg, it swirls refugees, crime, the music industry, African magic and the nature of sin together into a heady brew"--Bookseller's website.
Zoo City
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Author : Lauren Beukes
language : en
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Release Date : 2010-09-02
Zoo City written by Lauren Beukes and has been published by Watkins Media Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-02 with Fiction categories.
WHERE NO ONE ELSE DARE VENTURE… Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty online 419 scam habit – and a talent for finding lost things. But when her latest client, a little old lady, turns up dead and the cops confiscate her lastpaycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job: missing persons An astonishing second novel from the author of the highly-acclaimed Moxyland. FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [Black Magic Noir / Pale Crocodile / Spirit Guardians / Lost Stars]
Zoo City
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Author : Lauren Beukes
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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Ancienne journaliste et ex-junkie, Zinzi habite Zoo City, un quartier de Johannesburg peuplé de criminels obligés de vivre avec un animal à leur charge. Si l'animal meurt, son propriétaire aussi. "Animalée" après la mort de son frère, dont elle se sent responsable, Zinzi est affublée d'un paresseux symbiotique qui a élu domicile sur son dos. Elle survit grâce à des arnaques sur Internet et à son talent pour retrouver les objets perdus, mais également les personnes disparues, une activité fort lucrative qu'elle déteste pourtant. Lorsqu'un producteur célèbre lui demande de rechercher une pop star dont on est sans nouvelles, Zinzi, à court d'argent, accepte à contrecoeur. Elle espère cependant tenir là son billet de sortie de Zoo City. Au lieu de cela, elle s'enfonce plus encore dans les bas-fonds du ghetto...
Zoo City
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
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Zoo City
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Author : Stephen Lewis
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Release Date : 1976-01-01
Zoo City written by Stephen Lewis and has been published by William Morrow & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
By matching the photograph of an inanimate city object on the upper half of a split page with the photograph of the animal it resembles on the lower half, the reader also completes the name of the animal involved.
Post Apartheid Gothic
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Author : Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-03-19
Post Apartheid Gothic written by Mélanie Joseph-Vilain and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain assesses the literary mechanisms utilized by Damon Galgut, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lauren Beukes, Justin Carwright, and Lynn Freed to negotiate the complexities of post-apartheid identities in their fiction. Joseph-Vilain argues that the literary representations of emblematic places, real or imagined (the home, the farm, the city or the “non-places” of dystopia), express and reveal anxieties linked to the sharing of space in post-apartheid South Africa. The text successively (re-)visits the places that have been shaping South African white writing since Olive Schreiner’s African Farm—in other words, its topoi, both in the etymological sense of “place” and in the literary sense of recurring themes or arguments. Joseph-Vilain argues that these Gothicized topoi have provided writers with tools to explore the deep anxieties generated by the redefinition of South African society as the Rainbow Nation. While focusing specifically on the South African avatars of the Gothic and their interaction with local forms and genres like the plaasroman, the text also discusses the impact of globalization on South African literary, cultural, social, and political identities.
Zoo Renewal
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Author : Lisa Uddin
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2015-04-01
Zoo Renewal written by Lisa Uddin and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Social Science categories.
Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human inhabitants. In Zoo Renewal, Uddin demonstrates how efforts to make the zoo more natural and a haven for particular species reflected white fears about the American city—and, pointedly, how the shame many visitors felt in observing confined animals drew on broader anxieties about race and urban life. Examining the campaign against cages, renovations at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and the San Diego Zoo, and the cases of a rare female white Bengal tiger and a collection of southern white rhinoceroses, Uddin unpacks episodes that challenge assumptions that zoos are about other worlds and other creatures and expand the history of U.S. urbanism. Uddin shows how the drive to protect endangered species and to ensure larger, safer zoos was shaped by struggles over urban decay, suburban growth, and the dilemmas of postwar American whiteness. In so doing, Zoo Renewal ultimately reveals how feeling bad, or good, at the zoo is connected to our feelings about American cities and their residents.
Criminal Cities
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Author : Molly Slavin
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2023-05-24
Criminal Cities written by Molly Slavin and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well as possibilities for cultural, aesthetic, and political catharsis. Examining late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels set in London, Belfast, Mumbai, Sydney, Johannesburg, Nairobi, and urban areas in the Palestinian West Bank, Criminal Cities considers the marks left by neocolonialism and imperialism on the structures, institutions, and cartographies of twenty-first-century cities. Molly Slavin suggests that literary depictions of urban crime can offer unique capabilities for literary characters, as well as readers, to process and negotiate that lingering colonial violence, while also providing avenues for justice and forms of reparations.
The Economics Of Empire
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Author : Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-30
The Economics Of Empire written by Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with Political Science categories.
The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is a multidisciplinary intervention into postcolonial theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire. This comprehensive collection traces the financial genealogies associated with the colonial enterprise, the strategies of economic precarity, the pedigrees of capital, and the narratives of exploitation that underlay and determined the course of modern history. One of the first attempts to take this approach in postcolonial studies, the book seeks to sketch the commensal relation—a symbiotic "phoresy"—between capitalism and colonialism, reading them as linked structures that carried and sustained each other through and across the modern era. The scholars represented here are all postcolonial critics working in a range of disciplines, including Political Science, Sociology, History, Peace and Conflict Studies, Legal Studies, and Literary Criticism, exploring the connections between empire and capital, and the historical and political implications of that structural hinge. Each author engages existing postcolonial and poststructuralist theory and criticism while bridging it over to research and analytic lenses less frequently engaged by postcolonial critics. In so doing, they devise novel intersectional and interdisciplinary frameworks through which to produce more greatly nuanced understandings of imperialism, capitalism, and their inextricable relation, "new" postcolonial critiques of empire for the twenty-first century. This book will be an excellent resource for students and researchers of Postcolonial Studies, Literature, History, Sociology, Economics, Political Science and International Studies, among others.