Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World

by Tim Watson

Book Overview

Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. As the British and French empires collapsed and the United States rose to global power in the early Cold War, and as intellectuals from the decolonizing world challenged the cultural hegemony of the West,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190852674
• ISBN13: 9780190852672
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"