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In this examination of the cross between anthropology and literature in contemporary Latin America, Amy Fass Emery studies how Latin American writers experiences and studies in the field of anthropology have shaped their representations of cultural Others in fiction. She approaches her subject first in broad terms and then in close textual readings of important writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Jos? Mar?a Arguedas, and Miguel Barnet. Emery develops the concept of an anthropological imagination--that is, the conjunction of anthropology and literature in twentieth-century Latin American literary texts. While exploring the uses of anthropology in contemporary narrative and fiction, Emery also gives consideration to documentary and testimonial writings. The major focus of this engaging work is the study of the novel. Analyzing fictions by authors from Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, Emery covers a wide geographical region, as well as a diverse group of topics. Subjects such as surrealist primitivism, the testimonio, the transcultural novel, and the relation of the anthropological imagination to the vexed question of postmodernism in the Latin American context are all given insightful deliberation. As the first extended study of interrelations between anthropology and literature in Latin America, Emerys work will prove invaluable to a wide spectrum of Latin Americanists and to those with comparative interests in anthropology, twentieth-century literature, and postmodernism.

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title:The Anthropological Imagination in Latin American Literature
author:Emery, Amy Fass.
publisher:University of Missouri Press
isbn10 | asin:0826210805
print isbn13:9780826210807
ebook isbn13:9780826260406
language:English
subjectLatin American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Literature and anthropology--Latin America.
publication date:1996
lcc:PQ7081.E64 1996eb
ddc:860.9/98
subject:Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Literature and anthropology--Latin America.
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The Anthropological Imagination in Latin American Literature
Amy Fass Emery
Page iv Copyright 1996 by The Curators of the University of Missouri - photo 2
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Copyright 1996 by
The Curators of the University of Missouri
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201
Printed and bound in the United States of America
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Emery, Amy Fass, 1957
The anthropological imagination in Latin American literature / Amy
Fass Emery.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8262-1080-5 (alk. paper)
1. Latin American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism.
2. Literature and anthropologyLatin America. I. Title.
PG7081.E64 1996
860.9'98dc20 96-27401
CIP
Picture 3 This paper meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984.
Designer: Mindy Shouse
Typesetter: BOOKCOMP
Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Typefaces: Garamond & Arial
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TO MY PARENTS,
ELI NORMAN AND
CONSTANCE CONVERSE FASS
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
1. The Anthropological Imagination
1
2. The "Anthropological Flneur" in Paris: Documents, Bifur, and Collage Culture in Carpentier's Ecu-Yamba-O!
24
3. The Eye of the Anthropologist: Vision and Mastery in Jos Mara Arguedas
43
4. The Voice of the Other: Anthropological Discourse and the Testimonio in Biografa de un Cimarrn and Canto de Sirena
70
5. The "I" of the Anthropologist: Allegories of Fieldwork in Darcy Ribeiro's Mara
93
6. Sa(1)vage Ethnography: The Cannibalistic Imagination in Juan Jos Saer's El Entenado
109
Afterword: The Anthropological Imagination and the Question of a Latin American Postmodernism
126
Bibliography
139
Index
153

Page ix
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Jean Franco for being an incisive and always interested reader of this work when it was becoming a dissertation, and for valuable suggestions that aided its metamorphosis into a book. I am grateful to Diane Marting for bringing Clarice Lispector's short story "A menor mulher do mundo" to my attention, and for useful comments.
Ted Emery has been supportive of this project and its author in countless ways, and I would like to thank him with all my heart.
An early, shorter version of chapter 2 was published in Hispanic Journal and is reprinted here with the editor's permission. All unattributed translations are my own.
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The Anthropological Imagination
The conjunction of anthropology and literature in twentieth-century Latin American literary textswhat I am calling the "anthropological imagination"is a wide-ranging phenomenon that encompasses the surrealist primitivism, negrismo, and indigenismo of the first half of the century, the prolific testimonial genre that began in the 1960s, and the "popular culture modernism" of the transcultural novel as theorized by Angel Rama. Major Latin American writers who can be said to share a specifically anthropological focus are many, and include Miguel Angel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Jos Mara Arguedas, Carlos Fuentes, and Augusto Roa Bastos.
Interest in anthropology's relation to literature and vice versa has emerged in recent years, following the poststructuralist challenge to science that has made both anthropologists and literary critics conscious of the rhetorical strategies they share. Historians and discourse analysts have pointed out that supposedly objective scientific discourses such as history and anthropology deploy plot structures and narrative devices that are subject to analysis in the same way as those of any literary text. At the same time, the postmodern critique of master narratives and universalizing systems finds in anthropology, whose focus is on the marginal, the local, the Other of totalizing Western paradigms, a discipline at the heart of postmodern sensibility.
The anthropological imagination has been fundamental in the ongoing process of defining Latin America's identity since Columbus arrived in the
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