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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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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
  • 1900-1999
  • Literature and anthropology
  • Anthropology in literature
  • Ethnology in literature
  • Culture in literature
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Anthropologists' writings > History and criticism
  • Anthropologists' writings
  • Literature, Modern
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 & culture
Modernist literature & culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
JFE 18-2567
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