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Book Title
Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography
Topic
Criticism & Theory
Narrative Type
Criticism & Theory
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ISBN
9780816623372

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816623376
ISBN-13
9780816623372
eBay Product ID (ePID)
556170

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Fictions of Feminist Ethnography
Language
English
Publication Year
1994
Subject
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminist, Women's Studies, Anthropology / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Author
Kamala Visweswaran
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
93-037216
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.420954
Table Of Content
Fictions of feminist ethnography; defining feminist ethnography; refusing the subject; betrayal - an analysis in three acts; feminist reflections on desconstructive ethnography; feminist ethnography as failure; identifying ethnography; introduction to a diary; sari stories.
Synopsis
Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts that fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of "sisterhood" and the recovery of "lost" voices. Writing about her work with women in Southern India, Kamala Visweswaran addresses such troubled questions in the essays that make up Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. Blurring distinctions between ethnographic and literary genres, the author employs the narrative strategies of history, fiction, autobiography and biography, deconstruction, and postcolonial discourse to reveal the fictions of ethnography and the ethnography in fiction. In the process of reflecting on the nature of anthropology itself Visweswaran devises an experimental approach to writing feminist ethnography. What sets this work apart from other self-reflexive feminist ethnographies is its rigorous engagement with the concrete inequalities, refusals, and misunderstandings between the author and the women she worked with in India. In each essay, she takes up the specific ellipses of power differentials in her field research and works out their epistemological consequences. The result is a series of contextualizations of the politics of identity in the field, at "home," and within the lives of women who particpated in the Indian nationalist movement. We learn in lucid detail about the partiality of knowledge and the inevitable difficulties and violations involved in representing the lives of women, both inside and outside the United States. Clearly and forcefully written, this book should be of interest not only to anthropologists but also to cultural theorists and critics, feminist scholars and writers, and other social scientists who grapple with epistemological and political issues in their fields.
LC Classification Number
GN635.I4V57 1994

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