New Comparisons in World Literature: Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing

De Capitani, Lucio

This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial ethnographic narratives; the militant writings of Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi; and the travelogues and ethnographic fiction of Amitav Ghosh and the literary journalism of Frank Westerman. Each of these readings focuses on a set of social, political and historical circumstances and relies on a dialogue with anthropological theory and history. This book demonstrates how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent, and contributes to methodological debates within both anthropology and world-literary studies.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-09-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031387036

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38704-3

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 279