Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g
Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing
Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g
Reihe: New Comparisons in World Literature
ISBN: 978-3-031-38706-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
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.
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Research
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
Weitere Infos & Material
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.