Oxford Street, Accra : city life and the itineraries of transnationalism / Ato Quayson.
2014
DT512.9.A3 Q39 2014
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Title
Oxford Street, Accra : city life and the itineraries of transnationalism / Ato Quayson.
Author
ISBN
9780822376293 (electronic bk.)
0822376296 (electronic bk.)
1322029938 (ebk.)
9781322029931 (ebk.)
9780822357339 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082235733X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822357476 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
082235747X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822376296 (electronic bk.)
1322029938 (ebk.)
9781322029931 (ebk.)
9780822357339 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082235733X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822357476 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
082235747X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Language Note
Text in English.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780822376293 doi
(WaSeSS)ssj0001113715
(WaSeSS)ssj0001113715
Call Number
DT512.9.A3 Q39 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)873034908
Summary
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district and a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: urban theory and performative streetscapes
Ga Akutso formation and the question of hybridity : the Afro-Brazilians (Tabon) of Accra
The spatial fix : colonial administration, disaster management, and land-use distribution in early twentieth-century Accra
Osu borla no, sardine chensii soo: Danes, Euro-Africans, and the transculturation of Os
"The beautyful ones": tro-tro slogans, cell phone advertising, and the hallelujah chorus
"Este loco, loco" : transnationalism and the shaping of Accra's salsa scene
Pumping irony : gymming, the Kóbóló, and the cultural economy of free time
The lettered city : literary representations of Accra
Conclusion: on urban free time: Vladimir, Estragon, and Rem Koolhaas.
Ga Akutso formation and the question of hybridity : the Afro-Brazilians (Tabon) of Accra
The spatial fix : colonial administration, disaster management, and land-use distribution in early twentieth-century Accra
Osu borla no, sardine chensii soo: Danes, Euro-Africans, and the transculturation of Os
"The beautyful ones": tro-tro slogans, cell phone advertising, and the hallelujah chorus
"Este loco, loco" : transnationalism and the shaping of Accra's salsa scene
Pumping irony : gymming, the Kóbóló, and the cultural economy of free time
The lettered city : literary representations of Accra
Conclusion: on urban free time: Vladimir, Estragon, and Rem Koolhaas.
Access Note
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Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
System Details Note
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Quayson, Ato. Oxford Street, Accra. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014
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