Ethnographic didacticism and Africanist melancholy : Leiris, Hampaté-Bâ, and the epistemology of style -- The director of modern life : Jean Rouch's ethnofiction -- Folklore, fiction, and ethnographic nation building : Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, Laferrière -- Creole novels and the ethnographic production of literary history : Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant -- Speculative cityscapes and premillennial policing : ethnographies of the present in Jean-Claude Izzo's crime trilogy.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 making sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.
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Title
Experiments with empire.
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9781478003700
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Bâ, Amadou Hampâté, 1901-1991
Chamoiseau, Patrick, 1953-
Leiris, Michel, 1901-1990
Rouch, Jean, 1917-2004
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Ethnology in literature.
French fiction-- French-speaking countries-- History and criticism.
French literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.