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" Imaginary ethnographies : "
Gabriele Schwab.
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BL
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625668
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Schwab, Gabriele.
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Imaginary ethnographies : : literature, culture, and subjectivity /\ Gabriele Schwab.
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, c2012.
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xv, 220 p. ;; 24 cm.
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9780231159487 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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: 023115948X (cloth : acid-free paper)
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: 9780231159494 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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: 0231159498 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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: 9780231530804 (ebook)
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: 0231530803 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-212) and index.
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Another writing lesson: Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and the chief of the Nambikwara -- Traveling literature, traveling theory: imaginary encounters between East and West -- Restriction and mobility: desire, transference, and the cultural imaginary -- The melancholic cannibal: Juan José Saer's The witness and Marianne Wiggins's John Dollar -- War children in a global world: Richard Powers's Operation wandering soul -- Ethnographies of the future: personhood, agency, and power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis -- Cosmographical meditations on the inhuman: Samuel Beckett's The lost ones.
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Literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Literature and society.
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Social science literature.
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PN51.S3196 2012
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