Culture Writing
Subtitle: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780190852672
Subjects: Literature and anthropology; Anthropology in literature; Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century
Description: "Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. The book analyzes writers who engaged professionally with anthropology--Barbara Pym, Ursula Le Guin, Saul Bellow, Édouard Glissant--and anthropologists who adopted literary forms--Laura Bohannan, Michel Leiris, and Claude Lévi-Strauss"--