The City and Its Other

“Every place is three places”: Bursting Seams in Recent Fiction by Diane Awerbuck and Henrietta Rose-Innes

“…My view of urban pastoral in this context is conditioned by the destabilising polarities raised above relating to gender and power, order and chaos. As a subset of these polarities, I also draw on Roswitha Mueller's (2002) argument concerning gender, power, and mechanistic/organic views of the world. This is related to Nineveh (2011) by Henrietta Rose-Innes, a novel which constructs zones of instability invested in both gender and architecture as a complex and productive seam, and in which mechanistic and organic worlds (not to mention views of the world) collide with productive violence.…”