Experiments with Empire: Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic

by Justin Izzo

In Experiments with Empire Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, and ethnographies that combine fictive elements and anthropological methods and modes of thought, Izzo shows how empire gives ethnographic fictions the raw...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478004002
• ISBN13: 9781478004004
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"