Eric Prieto is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place (2012) and co-editor of Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance (with Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela; 2025).

• Part I: Theoretical and Historical GroundworkChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Informal Urbanism and/as Representational CrisisChapter 3 Changing Paradigms in Urban Studies Chapter 4 A New Generation of Urban InformalistsChapter 5 Literary Mappings of the Informal CityPart II: Interdisciplinary Cross-readingsChapter 6 Hybrid Urbanization and Literary Space: Paulo Lins's City of God and Naïma Tagemouati's La ListeChapter 7 Ordinary Cities I: Upward Mobility in Istanbul (Pamuk and Tekin) Chapter 8 Memorializing People as Infrastructure in Abidjan and Dakar (Rouch, Sembène, Mambéty)Chapter 9 Ordinary Cities II: Fables of Urban (Im)Mobility in Yaoundé and LagosChapter 10 Climates of Uncertainty (Patterson, Chamoiseau, Saulter, and KSR) Chapter 11 Summary and Closing Remarks (Soft Eyes)

Eric Prieto is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place (2012) and co-editor of Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance (with Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela; 2025).

• Part I: Theoretical and Historical GroundworkChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Informal Urbanism and/as Representational CrisisChapter 3 Changing Paradigms in Urban Studies Chapter 4 A New Generation of Urban InformalistsChapter 5 Literary Mappings of the Informal CityPart II: Interdisciplinary Cross-readingsChapter 6 Hybrid Urbanization and Literary Space: Paulo Lins's City of God and Naïma Tagemouati's La ListeChapter 7 Ordinary Cities I: Upward Mobility in Istanbul (Pamuk and Tekin) Chapter 8 Memorializing People as Infrastructure in Abidjan and Dakar (Rouch, Sembène, Mambéty)Chapter 9 Ordinary Cities II: Fables of Urban (Im)Mobility in Yaoundé and LagosChapter 10 Climates of Uncertainty (Patterson, Chamoiseau, Saulter, and KSR) Chapter 11 Summary and Closing Remarks (Soft Eyes)

Eric Prieto is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place (2012) and co-editor of Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance (with Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela; 2025).

• Part I: Theoretical and Historical GroundworkChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Informal Urbanism and/as Representational CrisisChapter 3 Changing Paradigms in Urban Studies Chapter 4 A New Generation of Urban InformalistsChapter 5 Literary Mappings of the Informal CityPart II: Interdisciplinary Cross-readingsChapter 6 Hybrid Urbanization and Literary Space: Paulo Lins's City of God and Naïma Tagemouati's La ListeChapter 7 Ordinary Cities I: Upward Mobility in Istanbul (Pamuk and Tekin) Chapter 8 Memorializing People as Infrastructure in Abidjan and Dakar (Rouch, Sembène, Mambéty)Chapter 9 Ordinary Cities II: Fables of Urban (Im)Mobility in Yaoundé and LagosChapter 10 Climates of Uncertainty (Patterson, Chamoiseau, Saulter, and KSR) Chapter 11 Summary and Closing Remarks (Soft Eyes)