Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions : Southern Crossings / / by Oscar Hemer
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| Autore: |
Hemer Oscar
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| Titolo: |
Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions : Southern Crossings / / by Oscar Hemer
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 301 |
| 809 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethnology |
| Social structure | |
| Equality | |
| Culture - Study and teaching | |
| Literature | |
| Sociocultural Anthropology | |
| Social Structure | |
| Cultural Studies | |
| World Literature | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions |
| ISBN: | 9783030349257 |
| 303034925X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910373939103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology, . 2946-4226