Urbanism and Black Mobility in Peter Abrahams'sMine Boy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4603860 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Megan Jones (0009-0001-4325-3505), Megan A Jones (0000-0002-8140-5776, Institute for Social and Economic Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 203-215 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057070.2011.639206 |
| OpenAlex | W2073262317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article reads representations of street movement in Peter Abrahams's novel Mine Boy (1946) in order to think through the novel's ideological tensions and their relation to urban space in pre-apartheid Johannesburg. I argue that modalities of movement in the fiction – walking, running, dancing – disclose the organisation of urban life by racist capitalism. Simultaneously, movement enables a shared humanity that transcends rigid categories of race or class. While Mine Boy's attempted synthesis of Marxism and liberal humanism generates a somewhat uneasy poetics, the strength of the work resides its ability to convey black communities' efforts to claim the city against discourses of segregation and exclusion deployed by the white state
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Capitalism · Humanism · Humanity · Ideology · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urbanism · Working class · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Architecture
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |