Ethics of Description - The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing

It follows the development of a minor tradition where French metropolitan authors traveling abroad who are aware of the ethical conundrums of representing world peoples & shows how the ethical awareness of the colonial-modern authors have impacted minority self-representation in France

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
Interchapter 1: Cordier and Fromentin: A Case Study of Ethnographic Art
1. Ethnographic Aesthetics: An Order of Subjects Called the Document
Interchapter 2: The Arche-Principle in Turn-of-the-Century Anthropological Images
2. Segalen's Arche-Writing
Interchapter 3: Visual Memory in the Dispositif
3. The Paradox of Description: The Tableau and the Note in André Gide and Marc Allégret's French Equatorial Africa
Interchapter 4: Double Exposure: Photojournalism in 1930s Ethiopia
4. Information Ethics in L'Afrique fantôme
Interchapter 5: Travel in Rachid Djaïdani's Film Sur ma ligne [On My Line] (2006)
Chapter 5: French Minority Writers and Polyvocal Auto-Ethnography in Métisse France
Index

About the author

Matt Reeck is a Guggenheim Fellow in Translation. Having completed his PhD in the Comparative Literature Department at UCLA, he is currently an Adjunct Professor of French and Francophone Studies at St. John's University.

Summary

It follows the development of a minor tradition where French metropolitan authors traveling abroad who are aware of the ethical conundrums of representing world peoples & shows how the ethical awareness of the colonial-modern authors have impacted minority self-representation in France

Product details

• Authors: Matt Reeck, Reeck Matt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032550077
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3255007-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; France, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Anthropology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature