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Experiments with Empire
Justin Izzo
其他書名
Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic
出版
Duke University Press
, 2019-05-06
主題
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
ISBN
1478004622
9781478004622
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MIGWDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In
Experiments with Empire
Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, and ethnographies that combine fictive elements and anthropological methods and modes of thought, Izzo shows how empire gives ethnographic fictions the raw materials for thinking beyond empire's political and epistemological boundaries. In works by French surrealist writer Michel Leiris and filmmaker Jean Rouch, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau, and others, anthropology no longer functions on behalf of imperialism as a way to understand and administer colonized peoples; its relationship with imperialism gives writers and artists the opportunity for textual experimentation and political provocation. It also, Izzo contends, helps readers to better make sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.