ISBN:
9781478004622
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 282 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Theory in forms
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Izzo, Justin Experiments with empire
DDC:
840.9/3552
Keywords:
French literature History and criticism 20th century
;
French fiction History and criticism
;
Ethnology in literature
;
Imperialism in literature
;
Imperialism in motion pictures
;
Politics and literature History 20th century
;
Literature and society History 20th century
;
Electronic books
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Französisches Sprachgebiet
;
Imperialismus
;
Postkolonialismus
Abstract:
Justin Izzo is Assistant Professor of French Studies at Brown University.
Abstract:
In Experiments with Empire Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, and ethnographies that combine fictive elements and anthropological methods and modes of thought, Izzo shows how empire gives ethnographic fictions the raw materials for thinking beyond empire's political and epistemological boundaries. In works by French surrealist writer Michel Leiris and filmmaker Jean Rouch, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau, and others, anthropology no longer functions on behalf of imperialism as a way to understand and administer colonized peoples; its relationship with imperialism gives writers and artists the opportunity for textual experimentation and political provocation. It also, Izzo contends, helps readers to better make sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.
Abstract:
Ethnographic didacticism and Africanist melancholy : Leiris, Hampaté-Bâ, and the epistemology of style -- The director of modern life : Jean Rouch's ethnofiction -- Folklore, fiction, and ethnographic nation building : Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, Laferrière -- Creole novels and the ethnographic production of literary history : Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant -- Speculative cityscapes and premillennial policing : ethnographies of the present in Jean-Claude Izzo's crime trilogy.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1215/9781478004622
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478004622
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