Street archives and city life : popular intellectuals in postcolonial Tanzania / Emily Callaci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callaci, Emily, 1981- author.

Series:

Radical perspectives

Radical perspectives : a Radical History Review book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Social aspects--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam--20th century.

City and town life.

City and town life--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam--History--20th century.

Intellectuals--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam--History--20th century.

Intellectuals.

Urbanization--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam--History--20th century.

Urbanization.

City and town life--Social aspects.

History.

Tanzania--Dar es Salaam.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 286 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of what Callaci calls street archives. These urban intellectuals neither supported nor contested the ruling party's anti-city philosophy; rather, they navigated the complexities of inhabiting unplanned African cities during economic crisis and social transformation through various forms of popular texts that included women's Christian advice literature, newspaper columns, self-published pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics. Through these textual networks, Callaci shows how youth migrants and urban intellectuals in Dar es Salaam fashioned a collective ethos of postcolonial African citizenship. This spirit ushered in a revolution rooted in the city and its networks-an urban revolution that arose in spite of the nation-state's pro-rural ideology.

Contents:

TANU, African socialism, and the city idea

"All alone in the big city": elite women, "working girls", and struggles over domesticity, reproduction, and urban space

Dar after dark: dance, desire, and conspicuous consumption in Dar es Salaam's nightlife

Lovers and fighters: pulp-fiction publishing and the transformation of urban masculinity

From socialist to street-smart: a changing urban lexicon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Callaci, Emily, 1981- Street archives and city life.

ISBN:

9780822369844

0822369842

9780822369912

0822369915

OCLC:

974025541