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Experiments with Empire : Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic /

Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of making sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Izzo, Justin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethnographic didacticism and Africanist melancholy : Leiris, Hampate-Bâ, and the epistemology of style
  • The director of modern life : Jean Rouch's ethnofiction
  • Folklore, fiction, and ethnographic nation building : Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, Laferriere
  • Creole novels and the ethnographic production of literary history : Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant
  • Speculative cityscapes and premillennial policing : ethnographies of the present in Jean-Claude Izzo's crime trilogy.