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Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings

Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings

Hemer, Oscar

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

Literary CriticismAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030349241
ISBN13: 9783030349240
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 7 2020
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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