This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly in the study of cities of the south. It surveys more than a century of South African writing with the aim of tracing the forms through which the city has been constituted and refigured in literature.

Meg Samuelson is Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Associate Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has published widely in South African, African, Global South and oceanic literary and cultural studies.

1. Introduction 2. All that glitters 3. Light city, dark city 4. Resistant cities 5. Reassembling the city