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ISBN
9780857427007
Publication Name
Phantom Africa
Item Length
0.9in
Publisher
Seagull Books
Publication Year
2019
Series
The Africa List Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.2in
Author
Michel Leiris
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
45 Oz
Number of Pages
720 Pages

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One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal--by turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic, and morose--as well as an exhaustively detailed account of the first French state-sponsored anthropological expedition to visit sub-Saharan Africa. In 1930, Michel Leiris was an aspiring poet drifting away from the orbit of the Surrealist movement in Paris when the anthropologist Marcel Griaule invited him on an ethnographic journey that traversed the African continent from 1931 to 1933. Leiris, while maintaining the official records of the Mission, also kept a diary where he noted not only a given day's activities and events but also his impressions, his states of mind, his anxieties, his dreams, and even his erotic fantasies. Upon returning to France, rather than compiling a more conventional report or ethnographic study, Leiris decided simply to publish his diary. The result is an extraordinary book: a day-by-day record of one European writer's experiences in an Africa inexorably shaded by his own exotic delusions and expectations, on the one hand, and an unparalleled depiction of the paradoxes and hypocrisies of conducting anthropological field research at the height of the colonial era on the other. First published in English by Seagull Books in 2017, Phantom Africa is an invaluable document. Now available in paperback, this important book bears witness to the full range of social and political forces reshaping the African continent in the period between the World Wars.

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Publisher
Seagull Books
ISBN-10
0857427008
ISBN-13
9780857427007
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Author
Michel Leiris
Publication Name
Phantom Africa
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Series
The Africa List Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
720 Pages

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Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
45 Oz

Additional Product Features

Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Africa / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World / African
Dewey Decimal
916.7043092
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Travel, History, Social Science, Political Science

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  • by ma-563924
    Mar 22, 2024

    An eagle's eye look at Africa in the mid twentieth century

    The book is a fascinating ethnographic and cultural investigation of post-war pre-independence Africa.

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