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Fictions of feminist ethnography / / Kamala Visweswaran



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Autore: Visweswaran Kamala Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fictions of feminist ethnography / / Kamala Visweswaran Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994
Edizione: 1st ed.
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
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ISBN: 0-8166-8544-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807268803321
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