Tim Watson

Culture Writing

Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190852672
• ISBN-10: 0190852674
• Artikelnr.: 49140106

Autorenporträt

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