Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature

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

• 1. Ethnographic Fieldwork as a Point of Departure for World Literature.- 2. Colonial Ethnography and Uneven Intimacies in Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling.- 3.  Militant Ethnography and Internal Colonialism in Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi.- 4. Patchy Ethnographies of Neocolonial and Neoliberal Landscapes in Amitav Ghosh and Frank Westerman.- 5. Conclusion.