At home in Johannesburg? Rethinking cosmopolitanism through TJ/Double Negative, the joint project between David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić
Graham, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4778-2161
(2016)
At home in Johannesburg? Rethinking cosmopolitanism through TJ/Double Negative, the joint project between David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić.
ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 47
(1-2)
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pp. 193-222.
ISSN 0004-1327
[Article]
(doi:10.1353/ari.2016.0017)
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Abstract
This article examines the cosmopolitan character of TJ/ Double Negative (2010) and argues that the prize-winning pho- tography book, co-produced by the South African photographer David Goldblatt and writer and editor Ivan Vladislavić, is both a symptomatic expression of uneven development and a self- conscious interrogation of that unevenness. e book comprises two parts: Goldblatt’s iconic photographic series, TJ: Johannesburg Photographs 1948–2010, and Vladislavić’s novel Double Negative, a meta ction that refracts the story of modern Johannesburg along with Goldblatt’s career and the concomitant genre evolu- tion of South African photojournalism from local “documentary” to world-renowned “art,” as TJ reconstructs it. is experiment in interdiscursivity is signi cant not simply for being the rst of its kind—“a unique event in publishing” (“TJ & Double Negative”), as the publisher, Contrasto, declares in its marketing blurb—but also because through this collaborative yet multi-modal venture a new mode of critical cosmopolitanism in world-literature might emerge.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Volume 47, Numbers 1-2, January-April 2016 |
Keywords (uncontrolled): | Ivan Vladislavić; David Goldblatt; world-literature; cosmopolitanism; publishing; Johannesburg |
Research Areas: | A. > School of Media and Performing Arts > Media |
Item ID: | 20704 |
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Depositing User: | James Graham |
Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2016 12:10 |
Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2020 12:58 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/20704 |
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