Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania

Author:   Emily Callaci
Publisher:   Duke University Press
ISBN:  

9780822369844


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   24 November 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Emily Callaci
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780822369844


ISBN 10:   0822369842
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   24 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments  vii Introduction  1 1. TANU, African Socialism, and the City Idea  18 2. ""All Alone in the Big City"": Elite Women, ""Working Girls,"" and Struggles over Domesticity, Reproduction, and Urban Space  59 3. Dar after Dark: Dance, Desire, and Conspicuous Consumption in Dar es Salaam's Nightlife  102 4, Lovers and Fighters: Pulp-Fiction Publishing and the Transformation of Urban Masculinity  141 5. From Socialist to Street-Smart: A Changing Urban Lexicon  180 Conclusion  207 Notes  215 Bibliography  253 Index  277"

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Under the revered Nyerere a peculiar dialectic was put in place: a strong villagization and thus anti-city rhetoric in the face of the persistent migration of rural dwellers into the city. This is the focal point of Emily Callaci's Street Archives and City Life, and by exploring this she gives us a distinctive account of the relation between African postcolonial socialist politics, the city of Dar, and the aspirations of the thousands of Tanzanians who flocked to the city. Callaci's book is without a doubt going to be a classic in studies of the African city. -- Ato Quayson author of Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism


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Emily Callaci is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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