The Literary Worlds: Indigenous and Western Network Ethnography

Stephen Muecke

The Literary Worlds: Indigenous and Western Network Ethnography

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Abstract

Within a Latourian framework, literary works are seen as compositions1
embedded in a network of practices, rather than as communications that
use language as the preeminent medium. How can literary works be neither
communications from author to reader, or narrator to listener, nor texts
abstracted from the layers of contexts that make them possible? The experiment
to be performed in this chapter will examine the possibilities emerging from
the conceptual architecture provided by Bruno Latour’s networks and Isabelle
Stengers’s cosmopolitics and that enable an alternate compositional approach to
literary works.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nonmodern Practices
Subtitle of host publication	Latour and Literary Studies
Editors	Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield, Claire Chi-ah Lyu
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Bloomsbury
Chapter	10
Pages	217-230
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781501354298, 9781501354304
ISBN (Print)	9781501354281
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

Critical Theory
Humanities
negative critique
Bruno Latour
Latour, Bruno
philosophy of hybrid world
post-humanism

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