LEADER 03663nam 22006375 450 001 9910373939103321 005 20240207124319.0 010 $a3-030-34925-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-34925-7 035 $a(CKB)4900000000505040 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6006817 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-34925-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000000505040 100 $a20200106d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContaminations and Ethnographic Fictions $eSouthern Crossings /$fby Oscar Hemer 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (231 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology 311 $a3-030-34924-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"The form that Oscar Hemer has created in Cape Calypso allows a multi-perspectival treatment of the subject?a great improvement on linear narrative." ?J.M. Coetzee, Professor of Literature, University of Adelaide, Australia, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives?a stream-of-consciousness understanding of ?writing the city? of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of the IT metropolis Bangalore to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas?s Purity and Danger and Edouard Glissant?s Poetics of Relation, among others?to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in the Western Cape. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology 606 $aEthnology 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aEquality 606 $aCultural studies 606 $aLiterature    606 $aSocial Anthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12030 606 $aSocial Structure, Social Inequality$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010 606 $aCultural Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22040 606 $aPostcolonial/World Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aEquality. 615 0$aCultural studies. 615 0$aLiterature   . 615 14$aSocial Anthropology. 615 24$aSocial Structure, Social Inequality. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 615 24$aPostcolonial/World Literature. 676 $a301 676 $a809 700 $aHemer$b Oscar$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0963838 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910373939103321 996 $aContaminations and Ethnographic Fictions$92185815 997 $aUNINA