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Imaginary ethnographies: literature, culture, and subjectivity

By Schwab , Gabriele

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780231530804, 9780231159487, 9780231159494, 023115948X, 0231159498, 0231530803
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2456872 bytes)
Pages
xv, 220 pages ; 23 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

I. Writing, desire, and transference -- Another writing lesson: Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and the chief of the Nambikwara -- Traveling literature, traveling theory: imaginary encounters between East and West -- Restriction and mobility: desire, transference, and the cultural imaginary -- II. Aannibals, children, and aliens -- The melancholic cannibal: Juan José Saer's The witness and Marianne Wiggins's John Dollar -- War children in a global world: Richard Powers's Operation wandering soul -- Ethnographies of the future: personhood, agency, and power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis -- III. Coda -- Cosmographical meditations on the inhuman: Samuel Beckett's The lost ones.

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