Re-Assembling the City in Ivan Vladislavić’s Novels

• Authors: Luiza Caraivan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses the various aspects of the city as described by the South African writer Ivan Vladislavić in the novel Portrait with Keys. Hunters, gatherers and urban poachers are the inhabitants of the South African city bordering the veld, a city whose economic centre has been moved to the suburbs due to high rates of crime.

Keywords

EN

identity; Johannesburg; labyrinth; violence

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 229-234

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Luiza Caraivan

• ‘Dimitrie Cantemir’ University, Timişoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0021