The anthropological imagination in Latin American literature /

In this examination of the cross between anthropology and literature in contemporary Latin America, Amy Fass Emery studies how Latin American writers' experiences and studies in the field of anthropology have shaped their representations of cultural Others in fiction. She approaches her subject...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Emery, Amy Fass, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1996.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and anthropology > Latin America.
Littérature latino-américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et anthropologie > Amérique latine.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Latin American literature
Literature and anthropology
Spaans.
Proza.
Antropologische aspecten.
Romance Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
Spanish Literature.
Latin America
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The anthropological imagination
  • The "anthropological flâneur" in Paris: Documents, Bifur, and collage culture in Carpentier's Ecué-yamba-O!
  • The eye of the anthropologist: vision and mastery in José María Arguedas
  • The voice of the other : anthropological discourse and the testimonio in Biografía de un cimarrón and Canto de sirena
  • The "I" of the anthropologist : allegories of fieldwork in Darcy Ribeiro's Maíra
  • Sa(l)vage ethnography : the cannibalistic imagination in Juan José Saer's El entenado
  • Afterword : the anthropological imagination and the question of a Latin American postmodernism.

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