Title: Impasse of the Angels
First published: 1997
Description: In Impasse of the Angels, Stefania Pandolfo takes the critical engagement of anthropology to its limit by presenting the relationship between observer and observed as one of interacting equals and mutually constituting subjects. Narrating, debating, and imagining, real characters take center stage and, through their act of speech, invent a people rather than stand for it.

Exploring what it means to be a subject in the historical and poetic imagination of a Moroccan society, Impasse of the Angels listens to dissonant and often idiosyncratic voices elaborate the fractures, wounds, and contradictions of the Maghribi postcolonial present. Passionate and lyric, ironic and tragic, it is a transformative narrative experiment traveling the boundary of ethnography and fiction.
Subjects: Discourse analysis, Narrative, Ethnology, Ethnopsychology, Narrative Discourse analysis, Oral tradition, Social life and customs, Ethnology, morocco, Morocco, social life and customs
Places: Dra Wadi, Dra Wadi (Morocco), Morocco
LC classification: GN649.M65 P28 1997