Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 279 pages)
ISBN:
9783031387043
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303138704X
Series Statement:
New comparisons in world iterature
Content:
This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial ethnographic narratives; the militant writings of Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi; and the travelogues and ethnographic fiction of Amitav Ghosh and the literary journalism of Frank Westerman. Each of these readings focuses on a set of social, political and historical circumstances and relies on a dialogue with anthropological theory and history. This book demonstrates how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent, and contributes to methodological debates within both anthropology and world-literary studies. Lucio De Capitani is Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Ethnographic Fieldwork as a Point of Departure for World Literature -- 2. Colonial Ethnography and Uneven Intimacies in Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling -- 3. Militant Ethnography and Internal Colonialism in Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi -- 4. Patchy Ethnographies of Neocolonial and Neoliberal Landscapes in Amitav Ghosh and Frank Westerman -- 5. Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3031387031
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 3031387031
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031387036
Language:
English
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