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Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions - Southern Crossings

English · Hardback

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In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of  perspectives-a stream-of-consciousness understanding of "writing the city" of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of the IT metropolis Bangalore to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger and Edouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation, among others-to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in the Western Cape. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice.

List of contents

Contaminations.-Hillbrow Blues.-Bengaluru Boogie.-Cape Calypso I.-Cape Calypso Interlude.-Cape Calypso II.-Melville Medley.

About the author










Oscar Hemer is Professor of Journalistic and Literary Creation at Malmö University, Sweden. He is the author of several novels, including Misiones (2014), which concludes his Argentina trilogy begun with Cosmos Aska (2000) and Santiago (2007). His academic work includes the co-edited anthology Memory on Trial and the co-edited collection Conviviality at the Crossroads


Product details

Authors Oscar Hemer
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.04.2020
 
EAN 9783030349240
ISBN 978-3-0-3034924-0
No. of pages 220
Dimensions 152 mm x 218 mm x 19 mm
Weight 432 g
Illustrations XV, 220 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Series Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Kulturwissenschaften, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Soziale und ethische Themen, Creolization; containment; autoethnography; literaryanthropology; anthropologicalfictions; fiction; GenderStudies; SouthAfrica; Colonialism

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