| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 220 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
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Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology |
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Palgrave studies in literary anthropology.
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| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature and anthropology -- South Africa
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South African literature -- History and criticism
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Ethnology -- South Africa.
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Ethnology
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Literature and anthropology
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South African literature
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South Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030349257 |
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303034925X |
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