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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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
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