Gerald Gaylard is a Professor of English at the University of the Witwatersrand. Author of After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism (2006) and editor of Marginal Spaces: Reading Ivan Vladislavi¿ (2011), he has published primarily in the area of postcolonial culture, literature, and aesthetics.

This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavi¿. Bringing a flaneur's sensitivity and deep word hoard to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavi¿ developed an "internal GPS" and a minimalist style, which helped him to establish a critical sense of home and to create a culture of sustainability.

Ivan Vladislavi¿'s Biography

Historical Formalism: A Methodology

Introduction

Monuments and Resistance

Missing Persons

The Folly

Propaganda by Monuments

An African Flaneur

The Restless Supermarket

The Exploded View

Portrait with Keys

Ecologies of Home

The Loss Library, A Labour of Moles, Milnerton Market

Double Negative

101 Detectives

The Distance

The Story Continues From Here...

Bibliography

Index