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Hemer, Oscar.

Contaminations and ethnographic fictionsSouthern crossings /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contaminations and ethnographic fictionsby Oscar Hemer.
Reminder of title:	Southern crossings /
Author:	Hemer, Oscar.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xv, 220 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Anthropology.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34925-7
ISBN:	9783030349257$q(electronic bk.)

Contaminations and ethnographic fictionsSouthern crossings /
Hemer, Oscar.

Contaminations and ethnographic fictionsSouthern crossings /[electronic resource] :by Oscar Hemer. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xv, 220 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in literary anthropology. - Palgrave studies in literary anthropology..

"The form that Oscar Hemer has created in Cape Calypso allows a multi-perspectival treatment of the subject-a great improvement on linear narrative." -J.M. Coetzee, Professor of Literature, University of Adelaide, Australia, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature 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.

ISBN: 9783030349257$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-34925-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

222737
Anthropology.

LC Class. No.: GN25 / .H464 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 301

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