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At the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always provided a source of inspiration for writers, artists and musicians. It has also become the focus for critical theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau in their attempt to push the limits of textual analysis beyond literature and art towards our daily experience of the world. This collection of essays and interviews examines the street as both the site and space of competing discourses and also a form of discourse in its own right. Covering a broad range of topics including the role of the street in literature, photography and journalism, practices which take place upon the streets such as skateboarding, graffiti and flânerie and the politics and philosophy involved in negotiating the street, Word on the Street affirms the continued and renewed importance of the pedestrian street in the social consciousness of the the 21st century.
List of Illustrations
- Word: An Introduction
Elisha Foust
I. SIGNS & COUNTERSIGNS
- Signscapes and Minority Languages: Language Conflict on the Street
Guy Puzey
3 The Subversive Poetics of a Marginalized Discourse and Culture
E. Dimitris Kitis
4 SkateSpeak: An Interview with Iain Borden
Elisha Foust
II. CROSSING THE STREET
- Recycling the City Streets: Walking, Garbage and Cartoneros
James Scorer
6 Walking the Streets: Cityscapes and Subjectscapes in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Anne Flannery
7 Fragmenting the Street: Flâneur Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Photography
Susanna C. Ott
8 Desiring Urbanism
Stuart Kendall
III. STREET LEVEL
9 From ‘Cultural Factor’ to Propaganda Instrument: The Shop Window in German Cultural History 1907-33
Nina Schleif
10 Gendered Contestations: An Analysis of Street Harassment in Cairo
Nadia Ilahi
11 When the Street became Theatre: Heinrich Heine’s Art of Spectatorship in Juste-Milieu Paris
Lara Elder
12 Black Urbanism: An Interview with John Oduroe
Sophie Fuggle
IV. WORD UP
13 Escape from the Street: Language, Rock-and-Roll and Subversive Youth Space in Late-Socialist Lviv
William Risch
14 Street for Sale: Signs, Space, Discourse
Sophie Fuggle
15 ‘Miking’ the New German Street
Patricia Anne Simpson
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography