Culture writing : literature and anthropology in the midcentury Atlantic world / Tim Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Tim, 1965- author.

Series:

Modernist literature & culture.

Modernist Literature and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and anthropology.

Anthropology in literature.

Ethnology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, 'Culture Writing' argues that the period of decolonization in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists.

Contents:

Introduction: culture writing

The anglophone Atlantic world. "Jumble sales are the same the world over": Barbara Pym and transatlantic anthropology; The sun also sets: anthropology at the end of empire in Ursula le Guin and Laura Bohannan; "Every guy has his own Africa": development and anthropology in Saul Bellow and Bessie Head

The francophone Atlantic world. "L'ethnologue de soi-même": Édouard Glissant and francophone anthropology; Cultures in contact: memoir and ethnography in Michel Leiris

Afterword: postcolonial anthropological literature: Amitav Ghosh and Erna Brodber.

Notes:

OUP approval plan 2018

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-085269-0

0-19-085270-4

0-19-085268-2