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The anthropological imagination in Latin American literature / Amy Fass Emery.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 156 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0826260403
  • 9780826260406
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Anthropological imagination in Latin American literature.DDC classification:
  • 860.9/98 20
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081 .E64 1996eb
Other classification:
  • 18.33
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Contents:
The anthropological imagination -- The "anthropological fl�aneur" in Paris: Documents, Bifur, and collage culture in Carpentier's Ecu�e-yamba-O! -- The eye of the anthropologist: vision and mastery in Jos�e Mar�ia Arguedas -- The voice of the other : anthropological discourse and the testimonio in Biograf�ia de un cimarr�on and Canto de sirena -- The "I" of the anthropologist : allegories of fieldwork in Darcy Ribeiro's Ma�ira -- Sa(l)vage ethnography : the cannibalistic imagination in Juan Jos�e Saer's El entenado -- Afterword : the anthropological imagination and the question of a Latin American postmodernism.
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Summary: In this examination of the cross between anthropology and literature in contemporary Latin America, Amy Fass Emery studies how Latin American writers' experiences and studies in the field of anthropology have shaped their representations of cultural Others in fiction. She approaches her subject first in broad terms and then in close textual readings of important writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Jose Maria Arguedas, and Miguel Barnet. Emery develops the concept of an "anthropological imagination"--That is, the conjunction of anthropology and fiction in twentieth-century Latin American literature. Emery also gives consideration to documentary and testimonial writings. Analyzing fictions by authors from Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, Emery covers a wide geographical region, as well as a diverse group of topics.Summary: Subjects such as surrealist primitivism, the testimonio, the transcultural novel, and the relation of the anthropological imagination to the vexed question of postmodernism in the Latin American context are all given insightful deliberation. As the first extended study of the interrelations between anthropology and literature in Latin America, Emery's work will prove invaluable to a wide spectrum of Latin Americanists and to those with comparative interests in anthropology, twentieth-century literature, and post-modernism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-151) and index.

In this examination of the cross between anthropology and literature in contemporary Latin America, Amy Fass Emery studies how Latin American writers' experiences and studies in the field of anthropology have shaped their representations of cultural Others in fiction. She approaches her subject first in broad terms and then in close textual readings of important writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Jose Maria Arguedas, and Miguel Barnet. Emery develops the concept of an "anthropological imagination"--That is, the conjunction of anthropology and fiction in twentieth-century Latin American literature. Emery also gives consideration to documentary and testimonial writings. Analyzing fictions by authors from Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, Emery covers a wide geographical region, as well as a diverse group of topics.

Subjects such as surrealist primitivism, the testimonio, the transcultural novel, and the relation of the anthropological imagination to the vexed question of postmodernism in the Latin American context are all given insightful deliberation. As the first extended study of the interrelations between anthropology and literature in Latin America, Emery's work will prove invaluable to a wide spectrum of Latin Americanists and to those with comparative interests in anthropology, twentieth-century literature, and post-modernism.

The anthropological imagination -- The "anthropological fl�aneur" in Paris: Documents, Bifur, and collage culture in Carpentier's Ecu�e-yamba-O! -- The eye of the anthropologist: vision and mastery in Jos�e Mar�ia Arguedas -- The voice of the other : anthropological discourse and the testimonio in Biograf�ia de un cimarr�on and Canto de sirena -- The "I" of the anthropologist : allegories of fieldwork in Darcy Ribeiro's Ma�ira -- Sa(l)vage ethnography : the cannibalistic imagination in Juan Jos�e Saer's El entenado -- Afterword : the anthropological imagination and the question of a Latin American postmodernism.

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