Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature: Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing (New Comparisons in World Literature)

Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Ethnographic Fieldwork as Point of Departure for World Literature
	1.1 World Literature and Modernity
	1.2 Anthropology/Ethnography and Fieldwork
	1.3 Ethnographic Narratives
		1.3.1 The Epistemological Status of Ethnographic Narratives
		1.3.2 Ethnographic Authority and Style
		1.3.3 Genres
	1.4 Outline of the Chapters
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Chapter 2: Colonial Ethnography and Uneven Intimacies in Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling
	2.1 Intimacy and Ethnographic Fieldwork
	2.2 Robert Louis Stevenson
		2.2.1 In the South Seas: From Romance to Ethnographic Realism
		2.2.2 The Scientific Tourist
		2.2.3 Colonial Fieldwork and Queer Realism: “The Beach of Falesá”
	2.3 Rudyard Kipling
		2.3.1 The Anglo-Indian as Cultural Insider
		2.3.2 Colonial Typologies: “The Head of the District”
		2.3.3 Love and/as Ethnographic Espionage: Kim
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Chapter 3: Militant Ethnography and Internal Colonialism in Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi
	3.1 Militant Ethnography and Its Discontents
	3.2 Carlo Levi
		3.2.1 Christ Stopped at Eboli as an Ethnographic Critique of the State
		3.2.2 An Anthropology of Antifascism
		3.2.3 Monologism and Peasant Passivity
		3.2.4 After Christ: Peasant Political Consciousness and Third-Worldism
	3.3 Mahasweta Devi
		3.3.1 Counterinsurgent Anthropology in “Draupadi”
		3.3.2 Chotti Munda and His Arrow as Ethnography of Adivasi Struggle
		3.3.3 “Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha”: The Fieldworker-Activist as Ambivalent Ally
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Chapter 4: Patchy Ethnographies of Neocolonial and Neoliberal Landscapes in Amitav Ghosh and Frank Westerman
	4.1 A Rush of Stories: Patchy Ethnography
	4.2 Amitav Ghosh
		4.2.1 Syncretic Humanism and Culture of Compromise: In an Antique Land
		4.2.2 Dialogic Ethnography and Transhistorical Doubles
		4.2.3 The Hungry Tide: Ethnographies of the Environment
		4.2.4 From Mainstream to Convivial Conservation
		4.2.5 The Limits of Liberal Meritocracy (and Translation)
	4.3 Frank Westerman
		4.3.1 El Negro and Me: A Multisited Ethnography of Neocolonial Development
		4.3.2 The Mirror at the End of the Journey
		4.3.3 Choke Valley: Disasters and the Mythologies of Science and Religion
		4.3.4 State-Sorcery in a Landscape of Uncertainty
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Chapter 5: Conclusion
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Index