Fictions of feminist ethnography [[electronic resource] /] / Kamala Visweswaran

• Autore: Visweswaran Kamala
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42/0954; 305.420954
• Soggetto topico: Feminist anthropology - India; Women anthropologists - Attitudes; Women - India - Social conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; A Feminist Fable; 1. Introduction: Fictions of Feminist Ethnography; 2. Defining Feminist Ethnography; 3. Betrayal: An Analysis in Three Acts; 4. Refusing the Subject; 5. Feminist Reflections on Deconstructive Ethnography; 6. Feminist Ethnography as Failure; 7. Identifying Ethnography; 8. Introductions to a Diary; 9. Sari Stories; Glossary; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts which fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of "sisterhood" and the recovery of "lost" voices. In these essays about her work with women in Southern India, Kamala Visweswaran addresses such troubled issues. Blurring distinctions between ethnographic and literary genres, these essays employ the narrative strategies of history, fiction, autobiography and biography, deconstruction, and post-colonial discourse to reveal the fictions of ethnography and the ethnography in fi
• Titolo autorizzato: Fictions of feminist ethnography
• ISBN: 0-8166-8544-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784385303321
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