Overview
- Brings anthropology and ethnography into dialogue with world-literary studies
- Situates writings from around the world within an ethnographic fieldwork
- Shows how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent
Part of the book series: New Comparisons in World Literature (NCWL)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial ethnographic narratives; the militant writings of Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi; and the travelogues and ethnographic fiction of Amitav Ghosh and the literary journalism of Frank Westerman. Each of these readings focuses on a set of social, political and historical circumstances and relies on a dialogue with anthropological theory and history. This book demonstrates how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent, and contributes to methodological debates within both anthropology and world-literary studies.
Reviews
“This thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between anthropology and literature offers a fresh approach to the field of world literary studies by examining authors as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Mahasweta Devi, Carlo Levi, Amitav Ghosh, and Frank Westerman, focusing on what Lucio De Capitani calls their “ethnographic narratives”. Scholars of world literature, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature alike will learn much from the innovative methodology he establishes in reading across different literary cultures and languages.” (Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lucio De Capitani is Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature
Book Subtitle: Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing
Authors: Lucio De Capitani
Series Title: New Comparisons in World Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38704-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38703-6Published: 01 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38706-7Due: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38704-3Published: 31 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-6095
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6109
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 279
Topics: Literature, general, Ethnography, European Literature, Asian Literature, Comparative Literature