On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kenneth Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto. His research focuses on the analysis of society as spectacle, the critical turn in anthropology to the study of affect, social creativity, experiments in ethnographic writing and performativity.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Writing Stories of Make-Belize Chapter 1. "For the Time is at Hand": Beast-Time Somet'ings Chapter 2. Impossible Tropics Chapter 3. Richie's Tourists Chapter 4. Nowhere Paradise Chapter 5. Belize Ephemera Chapter 6. Belize Blues Chapter 7. Parca's Picks Epilogue: Belize Fabulations Glossary References Index