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Lexington Books Novel Approaches to Anthropology Contributions to Literary Anthropology 2015 Edition by Marilyn Cohen, Mary-elizabeth Reeve, John W. Pulis, Helena Wulff
This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflect current contributions to literary anthropology. Novel Approaches to Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology showcases the myriad ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary perspectives, theories, concepts, and pedagogical strategies to interpreting fiction and travel writing written in the past and present. The authors integrate insights from the reflexive deconstructive turn in anthropology and from critical Marxist and feminist approaches that ground interpretation in the political, economic, and social constraints and experiences of everyday life. The contributors share the view that fiction, like all artistic expression, is rooted in specific historical and cultural contexts. Literature, like all artistic expression, stimulates a critical imagination by allowing readers to take a fresh look at their own society and culture. Table of contents :- List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Introduction: Anthropological Aspects of the Novel, by Marilyn CohenChapter 2:A Shandean Description of Frakean "Ethnographic Behavior," by Ray McDermottChapter 3: Reading Defoe, the Eighteenth Century Master Story-teller, by Mary Elizabeth ReeveChapter 4: "A Genuine Victorian Oddity": Harriet Martineau's Fiction, by Marilyn CohenChapter 5: Mark Twain's Weapon of Mass Destruction: "The Human Race Has Only One Really Effective Weapon and that is Laughter," by David Surrey Chapter 6: The Creole Speaks: Daniel, Christophine and the Other in The Wide Sargaso Sea, by John PulisChapter 7: Ethnografiction and Reality in Contemporary Irish Novels, by Helena WulffChapter 8: Engaging Students' Interest Through Fiction, Memoirs and Film, by Ward KeelerIndexAbout the Authors