Walls of Algiers : Narratives of the City through Text and Image Paperback / softback
Edited by Zeynep Celik, Julia Clancy-Smith, Frances Terpak
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Walls of Algiers examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the "Bulwark of Islam," into "Alger la blanche," the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire.
In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social, political, technical, and artistic forces that generate a city's form.
Visual sources - prints, photographs, paintings, architectural drawings, urban designs, and film - are treated as primary evidence that complements and even challenges textual documents. The contributors' wide-ranging but intersecting essays span the disciplines of art history, social and cultural history, urban studies, and film history.
Walls of Algiers presents a multifaceted look at the social use of urban space in a North African city.
Its contributors' innovative methodologies allow important insights into often overlooked aspects of life in a city whose name even today conjures up enchantment as well as incomprehensible violence. Contributors include Julia Clancy-Smith, Omar Carlier, Frances Terpak, Zeynep Celik, Eric Breitbart, Isabelle Grangaud, and Patricia M.
E. Lorcin.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 90 color illus.
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:03/04/2009
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- ISBN:9780295988689
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 90 color illus.
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:03/04/2009
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- ISBN:9780295988689