Mutant City
Johannesburg Imaginaries in Twenty-first Century Speculative Film and Fiction
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Wits University Press
Publishing:1st Oct '26
£26.99
This title is due to be published on 1st October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Examines how the surge in speculative writing and film about Johannesburg – fantasy, comics, sci-fi, noir – reflects the city’s mutations, anxieties and imaginative possibilities.
The surge in speculative writing and film about Johannesburg – sci-fi, fantasy, noir, comics, magical realism, apocalypse, superheroes – mirrors the city's bewildering changes and unknowability. Timothy Wright explores how Johannesburg’s narratives allow us to imagine transformative futures: catastrophic, regenerative and radical.
Examines how Johannesburg's 21st-century surge in speculative writing and film & fantasy, comics, sci-fi, noir & reflects the city's mutations, anxieties, and imaginative possibilitISBN: 9781997461210
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288 pages