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Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions

Southern Crossings

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In this 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 an IT metropolis 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 South Africa. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice.weiterlesen

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Elektronisches Format: PDF

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-030-34925-7 / 978-3030349257 / 9783030349257

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 06.01.2020

Seiten: 220

Autor(en): Oscar Hemer

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