Format:
ix, 282 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781478004004
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9781478003700
Series Statement:
Theory in forms
Content:
In 'Experiments with Empire' Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, and ethnographies that combine fictive elements and anthropological methods and modes of thought, Izzo shows how empire gives ethnographic fictions the raw materials for thinking beyond empire's political and epistemological boundaries. In works by French surrealist writer Michel Leiris and filmmaker Jean Rouch, Malian writer Amadou Hampate Ba, Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau, and others, anthropology no longer functions on behalf of imperialism as a way to understand and administer colonized peoples; its relationship with imperialism gives writers and artists the opportunity for textual experimentation and political provocation. It also, Izzo contends, helps readers to better make sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebook Izzo, Justin Experiments with empire Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 ISBN 978-1-4780-0462-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Französisches Sprachgebiet
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Leiris, Michel 1901-1990
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Rouch, Jean 1917-2004
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Bâ, Amadou Hampâté 1901-1991
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Chamoiseau, Patrick 1953-
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Literatur
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Film
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Imperialismus
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Ethnologie
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Postkolonialismus
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