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OverviewEthics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a minor tradition in French literature where metropolitan authors traveling abroad demonstrate their awareness of the ethical conundrums of representing world peoples. During the colonial–modern era, currents of anthropological thought and representational practice are identifiable throughout society, and across literature, the arts, and the sciences. Collectively, they can be theorized as belonging to a dispositif, the anthropological dispositif. The modernization of anthropology serves as an ambivalent interlocutor for the realizations of the writers studied in this book about the difficulties of describing cultural realities that lie largely outside their ken. Anthropology motivates new literary representational strategies that are, alternatively, in keeping with scientific mandates or operate against them. Forty images are analyzed alongside literary works. A postcolonial chapter shows how the ethical awareness of the colonial–modern authors studied have impacted minority self-representation in contemporary France. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matt ReeckPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367858643ISBN 10: 0367858649 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 29 September 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Introduction Interchapter 1: Cordier and Fromentin: A Case Study of Ethnographic Art 1. Ethnographic Aesthetics: An Order of Subjects Called the Document Interchapter 2: The Arche-Principle in Turn-of-the-Century Anthropological Images 2. Segalen’s Arche-Writing Interchapter 3: Visual Memory in the Dispositif 3. The Paradox of Description: The Tableau and the Note in André Gide and Marc Allégret’s French Equatorial Africa Interchapter 4: Double Exposure: Photojournalism in 1930s Ethiopia 4. Information Ethics in L’Afrique fantôme Interchapter 5: Travel in Rachid Djaïdani’s Film Sur ma ligne [On My Line] (2006) Chapter 5: French Minority Writers and Polyvocal Auto-Ethnography in Métisse France IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMatt Reeck is a Guggenheim Fellow in Translation. Having completed his PhD in the Comparative Literature Department at UCLA, he is currently an Adjunct Professor of French and Francophone Studies at St. John’s University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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