Object's details: Ways of Knowing Small Places: Intersections of American Literature and Ethnography since the 1960s
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- Table of contents: Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Why the 1960s? 10 Why small places? 14 Why intersections of literature and ethnography? 18 What ways of knowing? 26 Chapter 1. Fiction as critique of ethnography: Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, and Russell Leong 33 Anthropology meets history in the Black Atlantic 38 A tale of two islands in three voices 48 Anthropology eclipsed 55 Chapter 2. Fieldwork in (un)common places: Fiction by anthropologists Margery Wolf, Edith Turner, and Rhoda Halperin 62 An ethnographic tale of mystery and suspense 69 A tale of redemption 75 An allegory of two warring tribes 81 Chapter 3. Queer ways of knowing islands: O.A. Bushnell 93 First encounter: racial and cultural difference 97 Second encounter: disease and disability 100 Third encounter: non-normative sexuality 103 Grievable lives 108 Chapter 4. Islands of multiculturalism 112 Islands of multiculturalism in “a sea of urban woe” 115 Islands as capital 118 Cover girls 119 Edible islands 124 Ethnographic expectations 125 Trailing clouds over islands 129 Chapter 5. Coming of age in The New Yorker: Jamaica Kincaid 135 The American scene and the ambivalent performer 137 Auto-ethnography 140 Mock-ethnography 151 Counter-ethnography 157 Being Paul Gauguin 159 Chapter 6. Familiar places: Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Achy Obejas, and Karen Tei Yamashita 161 Tacking between the island and the mainland 166 A very insular experiment 173 Coda 178 References 183 Name index 196
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