Experiments with Empire

Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvJustin Izzo

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-07
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTheory in Forms
Antal sidor296
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478003700

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Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Ethnographic Fictions in the French Atlantic 11. Ethnographic Didacticism and Africanist Melancholy: Leiris, HampătÉ Bă, and the Epistemology of Style 172. The Director of Modern Life: Jean Rouch's Ethnofiction 553. Folkore, Fiction, and Ethnographic Nation Building: Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, LaferriÈre 984. Creole Novels and the Ethnographic Production of Literary History: Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant 1345. Speculative Cityscapes and Premillennial Policing: Ethnographies of the Present in Jean-Claude Izzo's Crime Trilogy 169Conclusion: Empire, Democracy, and Nonsovereign Knowledges 203Notes 217Bibliography 257Index 273