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This almost-idyllic description of an August evening in Dublin serves as the prelude to one of the most disturbing stories in Dubliners. The ‘two gallants’, Corley and Lenehan, gleefully play on the sympathies of a prostitute and extract a sovereign from her to fund their evening’s debauchery.
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The grey warm evening of August had descended upon the city and a mild warm air, a memory of summer, circulated in the streets. The streets, shuttered for the repose of Sunday, swarmed with a gaily coloured crowd. Like illuminated pearls the lamps shone from the summits of their tall poles upon the living texture below which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the warm grey evening air an unchanging, unceasing murmur.1
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I borrow the term from Sarah Nuttall who describes ‘citiness’, with specific reference to Johannesburg, as something different from ‘urbanization;; referring to ‘modes of being and acting in the city as city; it encompasses histories of violence, loss and xenophobia as well as those of experimentation and desegregation’. Sarah Nuttall, ‘A Politics of the Emergent: Cultural Studies in South Africa’, Theory, Culture and Society 23.7-8 (2006): 269.
Mike Davis, ‘Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat’, New Left Review 26 (2004): 5–6
Ashley Dawson and Brent Hayes Edwards, ‘Introduction: Global Cities of the South’, Global Cities of the South, spec. issue of Social Text 18 (2004): 6.
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Khanna, S. (2013). Conclusion. In: The Contemporary Novel and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137336255_8
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