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Ethnographic narratives as world literature : uneven entanglements in European and South Asian writing / Lucio De Capitani.

9783031387043 (electronic bk.)
303138704X (electronic bk.)
9783031387036
3031387031

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

English

1 online resource (ix, 279 pages).

10.1007/978-3-031-38704-3 doi

PN92

809/.034

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. Lucio De Capitani is Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

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