Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity

by Gabriele Schwab

Book Overview

Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab analyzes literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic medium that "writes culture"--one that makes the abstract particular and local, and situates us within the world--Schwab pioneers a compelling approach to reading literary texts as "anthropologies of the future" that challenge habitual productions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231159498
• ISBN13: 9780231159494
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"