Culture Writing - Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World

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.

Sommario

• 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

Info autore

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).

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tim Watson, Tim (Associate Professor of English Watson
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780190852672
• ISBN: 978-0-19-085267-2
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Modernist Literature & Culture; Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; USA, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence