1st Edition
Ethics of Description The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing
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
Biography
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.
