TY - BOOK AU - Emery,Amy Fass TI - The anthropological imagination in Latin American literature SN - 0826260403 AV - PQ7081 .E64 1996eb U1 - 860.9/98 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Columbia PB - University of Missouri Press KW - Latin American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and anthropology KW - Latin America KW - Litt�erature latino-am�ericaine KW - 20e si�ecle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Litt�erature et anthropologie KW - Am�erique latine KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Caribbean & Latin American KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Spaans KW - gtt KW - Proza KW - Antropologische aspecten KW - Romance Literatures KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Spanish Literature KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-151) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=46828 ER -