Publications
Publication details [#49824]
Fu, Albert. 2007. Cinema and the edgy city: Johannesburg, carjacking, and the postmetropolis. African Identities 5 (2) : 279–289.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
Oliver Schmitz's Hijack Stories (2000) demonstrates how post-apartheid Johannesburg constitutes a place of hybrid identities not only in the different city spaces, but via the impact of global hip-hop cultures, and discusses the real and imagined 'citizen' perceptions.