Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature

2023-10-02 Literary Criticism

Author : Lucio De Capitani
Release : 2023-10-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature written by Lucio De Capitani. This book was released on 2023-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

From Notes to Narrative

2016-05-10 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Kristen Ghodsee
Release : 2016-05-10
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book From Notes to Narrative written by Kristen Ghodsee. This book was released on 2016-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its original home in cultural anthropology to fields such as sociology, marketing, media studies, law, criminology, education, cultural studies, history, geography, and political science. Yet, while more and more students and practitioners are learning how to write ethnographies, there is little or no training on how to write ethnographies well. From Notes to Narrative picks up where methodological training leaves off. Kristen Ghodsee, an award-winning ethnographer, addresses common issues that arise in ethnographic writing. Ghodsee works through sentence-level details, such as word choice and structure. She also tackles bigger-picture elements, such as how to incorporate theory and ethnographic details, how to effectively deploy dialogue, and how to avoid distracting elements such as long block quotations and in-text citations. She includes excerpts and examples from model ethnographies. The book concludes with a bibliography of other useful writing guides and nearly one hundred examples of eminently readable ethnographic books.

Life After Leaving

2011-07 Drama

Author : Sophie Tamas
Release : 2011-07
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book Life After Leaving written by Sophie Tamas. This book was released on 2011-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both personal and theoretical, autoethnographic and analytical, this book offers a performative, arts-based narrative about the aftermath of abusive marriages, using the stories, drawings, songs of other women to compare with Tamas's own lived experience.

The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives

2013-11-04 Literary Criticism

Author : Christina Kullberg
Release : 2013-11-04
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives written by Christina Kullberg. This book was released on 2013-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on narratives from Martinique by Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Ina Césaire, and Patrick Chamoiseau, among others, Christina Kullberg shows how these writers turn to ethnography—even as they critique it—as an exploration and expression of the self. They acknowledge its tradition as a colonial discourse and a study of others, but they also argue for ethnography’s advantage in connecting subjectivity to the outside world. Further, they find that ethnography offers the possibility of capturing within the hybrid culture of the Caribbean an emergent self that nonetheless remains attached to its collective history and environment. Rather than claiming to be able to represent the culture they also feel alienated from, these writers explore the relationships between themselves, the community, and the environment. Although Kullberg’s focus is on Martinique, her work opens up possibilities for intertextual readings and comparative studies of writers from every linguistic region in the Caribbean—not only francophone but also Hispanic and anglophone. In addition, her interdisciplinary approach extends the reach of her work beyond postcolonial and literary studies to anthropology and ecocriticism.

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