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Between Anthropology and Literature In this original volume, literature becomes both a creation and creator of culture with anthropology as the observer/reader/interpreter. The dual role of literature and the repositioning of anthropology allow for a multiplicity of possibilities in reading, writing about, and interpreting people, places and perspectives, real or imagined. Crossing the traditional boundaries of the canon, the authors consider fiction, poetry, and drama and cover an array of literary and anthropological concerns from the more palpable ethnographic studies to the liminal discussions of ritual. In an exciting new approach, they bring together in a common space those elements of both disciplines that remained disparate only because they remained separate. The collection suggests that these two core disciplines are not static, bounded entities but instead fluid sites of shifting cultural currents and academic interests; that neither literature nor anthropology is a unified, self-contained discipline; that critical discussions in each field do not emanate from a single center but originate from a variety of sources and intersect at various, sometimes non-contiguous, points. Most importantly, the essays conclude that the origins, sources, and intersections of the two disciplines are constantly revised, reconceived, or replaced, breaching boundaries that lead not to chaos but rather to creativity and new possibilities of understanding and explicating texts, both literary and anthropological. The authors of this volume all address the ways in which the language of social science fuses with that of the literary imagination and contributes to the ongoing debate on the merits of interdisciplinarity. The essays fit excellently with the current interest in cultural studies and challenge students, both undergraduate and graduate, to see texts not as isolated artifacts, but as parts of a larger global and cultural matrix. Rose De Angelis is Associate Professor of English at Marist College and was editor of the book series Anthropology and Literature from 1996–2001. Between Anthropology and Literature Interdisciplinary discourse Edited by Rose De Angelis London and New York First published 2002 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. © 2002 Taylor & Francis Books Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-21805-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-27364-8 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0–415–28714–6 (Print Edition) In memory of Fortuna De Angelis (1931–1997) Contents vii Contents List of contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART I Anthropology and literature as ethnography 9 1 The ethnographic novel: finding the insider’s voice 11 JANET TALLMAN 2 “Splendid disciplines”: American Indian women’s ethnographic literature 23 ROSEANNE L. HOEFEL 3 A woman’s work is never done: business and family politics in Umbertina and “Rosa in Television Land” 43 ROSE DE ANGELIS PART II Anthropology, ritual and literature 55 4 Rituals to cope with change in women’s lives: Judith Minty’s Dancing the Fault 57 JANET RUTH HELLER 5 The subversion of ritual in the theatre of Paloma Pedrero 69 SUSAN P. BERARDINI viii Contents 6 “And love thee after”: necrophilia on the Jacobean stage 82 RICHARD W. GRINNELL 7 Staging the social drama of Maghrebi women in the theatre of Fatima Gallaire 99 JAN BERKOWITZ GROSS PART III Anthropology and literature as travelogue 119 8 Oriental imprisonments: Habaneras as seen by nineteenth- century women travel writers 121 LIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT 9 Travelers possessed: generic hybrids and the Caribbean 133 IVETTE ROMERO-CESAREO 10 Anthropology and literature: of bedfellows and illegitimate offspring 158 MARIO CESAREO Index 175 List of contributors ix Contributors Susan P. Berardini is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Pace University. Her research currently focuses on contemporary Spanish theatre, Spanish cultural studies, metatheatre, and the function of ritual in theatre. She has recently published “El toreo como via de la identidad en Invierno de luna alegre” for Iberoamericana in Madrid, “Huellas mitológicas en el teatro de Paloma Pedrero” in Gestos, and “La isla amarilla: (Re)vision and Subversion of the Discovery” in a collection entitled A Twice-Told Tale. Mario Cesareo is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College. His published work includes theatre semiotics, Argentine novelistic production under militarized neoliberalism, Latin American cinema under globalization, Black Liberation Theology, and nineteenth-century slave narratives of the English Caribbean. His book, Cruzados, mártires, y beatos: emplazamientos del cuerpo colonial, on colonial cultural studies was published by Purdue University Press in 1995. He is currently co-editing a book on the poetics of social movements. Rose De Angelis is Associate Professor of English at Marist College and was editor of the book series Anthropology and Literature. Her interests include Ethnic and American Literature and Gender Studies. Her work on the cultural construction of the Italian female in fiction has appeared in Forum Italicum and Italian Americana. A recent article on the sociocultural impact of names, “‘What’s in a name?’: Conflicted Identities in Black and White,” was published in Shades of Black and White. Richard W. Grinnell is Assistant Professor of English at Marist College. His recent work on the relationship between drama and the witchcraft persecutions of the late Sixteenth and early Seventeenth centuries in England has been published in Essays in Theatre, Studies in the Humanities, and The Upstart Crow. He is currently finishing a book entitled English Demonology and Renaissance Drama: The Politics of Fear. Jan Berkowitz Gross is Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages at Grinnell College where she teaches courses in French language and literature, contem- porary francophone cultures, and theatre. Recent work includes a study on the depiction of violence and trauma by French women playwrights and multiple

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