Experiments with Empire: Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic

Justin Izzo

Published by Duke University Press 2019

Experiments with Empire

Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic

Justin Izzo

In the series Theory in Forms

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478004622

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About this book

Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of making sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.

Author / Editor information

Justin Izzo is Assistant Professor of French Studies at Brown University.

Reviews

"Experiments with Empire deserves an audience beyond the academic. Izzo makes some perceptive points about how seeing the connections between ethnography and fiction can help us reimagine the world."

-- Emilie de Brigard The Arts Fuse

“The book’s scope is bold and impressive…. Izzo’s study is an important contribution to research on the French Atlantic and on speculative forms in general, and it offers a fresh look at the crossings between ethnography and fiction that go beyond questions of truth and veracity, mimicry and resistance.”

-- Christina Kullberg New West Indian Guide

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Ethnographic Fictions in the French Atlantic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Ethnographic Didacticism and Africanist Melancholy: Leiris, Hampâté Bâ, and the Epistemology of Style Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. The Director of Modern Life: Jean Rouch’s Ethnofiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3. Folklore, Fiction, and Ethnographic Nation Building: Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, Laferrière Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
4. Creole Novels and the Ethnographic Production of Literary History: Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
5. Speculative Cityscapes and Premillennial Policing: Ethnographies of the Present in Jean-Claude Izzo’s Crime Trilogy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Conclusion: Empire, Democracy, and Nonsovereign Knowledges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Other: 6 illustrations

eBook

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9781478004622