Main entry:

Callaci, Emily, 1981- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

©2017
Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Description:

x, 286 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Series:

Radical perspectives : a Radical History Review book series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

9780822369844 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0822369842 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780822369912 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0822369915 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
(ebook)
9780822372325

Subject:

Chama Cha Mapinduzi
Revolutionäre Partei Tansanias
City and town life Social aspects Tanzania Dar es Salaam 20th century.
City and town life Tanzania Dar es Salaam History 20th century.
Intellectuals Tanzania Dar es Salaam History 20th century.
Urbanization Tanzania Dar es Salaam History 20th century.
Vie urbaine Aspect social Tanzanie Dar es-Salaam 20e siècle.
Vie urbaine Tanzanie Dar es-Salaam Histoire 20e siècle.
Intellectuels Tanzanie Dar es-Salaam Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanisation Tanzanie Dar es-Salaam Histoire 20e siècle.
Tanzania.
urban life.
urbanization.
intellectuals.
political parties.
ujamaa.
City and town life.
City and town life Social aspects.
Intellectuals.
Urbanization.
Intellektueller
Verstädterung
Stadtleben
Sozialer Wandel
Geistesleben
Stadtkultur
Tanzania Dar es Salaam.
Afrika
Tansania
Daressalam

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Radical perspectives.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301401
Call No.: BIB 247584
Status: Available