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Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. Watson analyzes writers who engaged professionally with anthropology--Barbara Pym, Ursula Le Guin, Saul Bellow, Édouard Glissant-and anthropologists who adopted literary forms--Laura Bohannan, Michel Leiris, and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Section I: The Anglophone Atlantic World
- Chapter 1: Jumble Sales Are the Same the World Over: Barbara Pym and Transatlantic Anthropology
- Chapter 2: The Sun Also Sets: Anthropology at the End of Empire in Ursula Le Guin and Laura Bohannan
- Chapter 3: Every Guy Has His Own Africa: Development and Anthropology in Saul Bellow and Bessie Head
- Section II: The Francophone Atlantic World
- Chapter 4: L'ethnologue de soi-même: Édouard Glissant and Francophone Anthropology
- Chapter 5: Cultures in Contact: Memoir and Ethnography in Michel Leiris
- Afterword
- Bibliography
About the author
Tim Watson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami and the author of
Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870 (2008).
Summary
Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. Watson analyzes writers who engaged professionally with anthropology--Barbara Pym, Ursula Le Guin, Saul Bellow, Édouard Glissant-and anthropologists who adopted literary forms--Laura Bohannan, Michel Leiris, and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
