The poetics of ethnography in Martinican narratives : exploring the self and the environment /
Drawing on narratives from Martinique by Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Ina Césaire, and Patrick Chamoiseau, among others, the author shows how these writers turn to ethnography -- even as they critique it -- as an exploration and expression of the self. They acknowledge its tradition as a colonial...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2013.
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| Series: | New World studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | Drawing on narratives from Martinique by Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Ina Césaire, and Patrick Chamoiseau, among others, the author shows how these writers turn to ethnography -- even as they critique it -- as an exploration and expression of the self. They acknowledge its tradition as a colonial discourse and a study of others, but they also argue for ethnography's advantage in connecting subjectivity to the outside world. Further, they find that ethnography offers the possibility of capturing within the hybrid culture of the Caribbean an emergent self that nonetheless remains attached to its collective history and environment. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813935140 0813935148 1299864996 9781299864993 9780813935133 081393513X |