Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature

Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-38703-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: New Comparisons in World Literature

This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial ethnographic narratives; the militant writings of Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi; and the travelogues and ethnographic fiction of Amitav Ghosh and the literary journalism of Frank Westerman. Each of these readings focuses on a set of social, political and historical circumstances and relies on a dialogue with anthropological theory and history. This book demonstrates how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent, and contributes to methodological debates within both anthropology and world-literary studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Capitani, Lucio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Ethnographic Fieldwork as a Point of Departure for World Literature.- 2. Colonial Ethnography and Uneven Intimacies in Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling.- 3. Militant Ethnography and Internal Colonialism in Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi.- 4. Patchy Ethnographies of Neocolonial and Neoliberal Landscapes in Amitav Ghosh and Frank Westerman.- 5. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Lucio De Capitani is Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.