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Culture writing : literature and anthropology in the midcentury Atlantic world
- Title
- Culture writing : literature and anthropology in the midcentury Atlantic world / Tim Watson.
- Author
- Watson, Tim, 1965-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 218 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. The book 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"--
- Series Statement
- Modernist literature & culture
- Uniform Title
- Modernist literature & culture.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and anthropology in the midcentury Atlantic world
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: culture writing -- The anglophone Atlantic world. "Jumble sales are the same the world over": Barbara Pym and transatlantic anthropology; The sun also sets: anthropology at the end of empire in Ursula le Guin and Laura Bohannan; "Every guy has his own Africa": development and anthropology in Saul Bellow and Bessie Head -- The francophone Atlantic world. "L'ethnologue de soi-même": Édouard Glissant and francophone anthropology; Cultures in contact: memoir and ethnography in Michel Leiris -- Afterword: postcolonial anthropological literature: Amitav Ghosh and Erna Brodber.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-2567
- ISBN
- 9780190852672
- 0190852674
- LCCN
- 2017027568
- OCLC
- 1002211596
- Author
- Watson, Tim, 1965- author.
- Title
- Culture writing : literature and anthropology in the midcentury Atlantic world / Tim Watson.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Modernist literature & cultureModernist literature & culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-2567