ISBN:
9781478004004
,
9781478003700
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 282 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Theory in forms
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
840.9/3552
Keywords:
Leiris, Michel
;
Rouch, Jean
;
Chamoiseau, Patrick
;
Bâ, Amadou Hampâté
;
Imperialismus
;
Literatur
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Ethnologie
;
Film
;
Französisches Sprachgebiet
;
Französisches Sprachgebiet
;
Literatur
;
Film
;
Imperialismus
;
Ethnologie
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Leiris, Michel 1901-1990
;
Rouch, Jean 1917-2004
;
Bâ, Amadou Hampâté 1901-1991
;
Chamoiseau, Patrick 1953-
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 Hampate Ba, 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.
