Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing

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Matt Reeck

Ethics of Description

The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing

Matt Reeck

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Anthropology

Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a minor tradition in French literature where metropolitan authors traveling abroad demonstrate their awareness of the ethical conundrums of representing world peoples. During the colonial–modern era, currents of anthropological thought and representational practice are identifiable throughout society, and across literature, the arts, and the sciences. Collectively, they can be theorized as belonging to a dispositif, the anthropological dispositif. The modernization of anthropology serves as an ambivalent interlocutor for the realizations of the writers studied in this book about the difficulties of describing cultural realities that lie largely outside their ken. Anthropology motivates new literary representational strategies that are, alternatively, in keeping with scientific mandates or operate against them. Forty images are analyzed alongside literary works. A postcolonial chapter shows how the ethical awareness of the colonial–modern authors studied have impacted minority self-representation in contemporary France.

By: Matt Reeck
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032550077
ISBN 10: 1032550074
Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction Interchapter 1: Cordier and Fromentin: A Case Study of Ethnographic Art 1. Ethnographic Aesthetics: An Order of Subjects Called the Document Interchapter 2: The Arche-Principle in Turn-of-the-Century Anthropological Images 2. Segalen’s Arche-Writing Interchapter 3: Visual Memory in the Dispositif 3. The Paradox of Description: The Tableau and the Note in André Gide and Marc Allégret’s French Equatorial Africa Interchapter 4: Double Exposure: Photojournalism in 1930s Ethiopia 4. Information Ethics in L’Afrique fantôme Interchapter 5: Travel in Rachid Djaïdani’s Film Sur ma ligne [On My Line] (2006) Chapter 5: French Minority Writers and Polyvocal Auto-Ethnography in Métisse France Index

Matt Reeck is a Guggenheim Fellow in Translation. Having completed his PhD in the Comparative Literature Department at UCLA, he is currently an Adjunct Professor of French and Francophone Studies at St. John’s University.