Cosmopolitical dialogues between literature and anthropology
Keywords:
Cosmopolitics, anthropological writing, speculative fiction, anthropocene, ends of the world
Abstract
In this article I present a possible dialogue between anthropology and literature, showing how creativity and experimentation are part of both disciplines. For this I delve into how speculative fiction explores ways of imagining other worlds beyond catastrophe in a context marked by ecological devastation. In this sense, different writings, both anthropological and literary, have undertaken cosmopolitical trajectories that go through multiplying our world, accounting for the links between species that compose and shape us, in an attempt to face or sustain the end of the world that crosses us.
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Canavan, Gerry. 2016. Octavia E. Butler. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Carrington, André M. 2016. Speculative blackness: The future of race in science fiction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Clifford, James & Marcus, George E. (Eds.). 1986. Writing culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography: a School of American Research advanced seminar. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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de Ferrari, Guillermina. 2020. “Science Fiction and the Rules of Uncertainty.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 24(1 (61)): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190502
de la Cadena, Marisol y Mario Blaser (Eds.). 2018. A world of many worlds. Durham: Duke University Press.
Dery, Mark. 1994. “Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose”. En Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, editado por Mark Dery, 179-222. Durham: Duke University Press.
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Fujigaki Lares, Alejandro. 2020. “Caminos Rarámuri para sostener o acabar el mundo. Teoría etnográfica, cambio climático y antropoceno”. Mana 26(1): 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-49442020v26n1a202
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Indiana, Rita. 2015. La Mucama de Omicunlé. Cáceres: Periférica.
Indiana, Rita. 2018. Hecho en Saturno. Cáceres: Periférica.
Latour, Bruno. 2008. Reensamblar lo social: una introducción a la teoría del actor-red. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Manantial.
Latour, Bruno. 2012. “Esperando a Gaia. Componer el mundo común mediante las artes y la política”. Cuadernos de Otra parte. Revista de letras y artes, 26, 67-76.
Latour, Bruno. 2014. “¿El cosmos de quién?¿ Qué cosmopolítica? Comentarios sobre los términos de paz de Ulrich Beck”. Revista Pléyade 14: 43-59.
Lopes Kayapó, Aline Ngrenhtabare y Bepkro Kayapó, Edson. “Reencantar el mundo con la literatura indígena.” Latin American Literature Today. Acceso el 8 de junio de 2021 en: http://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/es/2021/mayo/reencantar-el-mundo-con-la-literatura-ind%C3%ADgena-de-aline-ngrenhtabare-lopes-kayap%C3%B3-y-edson
Mota, Erick Jorge. 2010. Habana underguater. Estados Unidos: Atom Press.
Neyrat, Frédéric. 2016. “The Biopolitics of Catastrophe, or How to Avert the Past and Regulate the Future”. South Atlantic Quarterly, 115(2), 247-265. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3488398
Neyrat, Frédéric. 2019. The unconstructable earth: An ecology of separation. New York: Fordham University Press.
Okorafor, Nnedi. 2020. “Africanfuturism Defined”. En Africanfuturism. An Anthology, ed. Talabi, Wole. Chicago: Brittle Paper. Consultado el 8 de junio de 2021 en: http://brittlepaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Africanfuturism-An-Anthology-edited-by-Wole-Talabi.pdf
Olson, Valerie. 2018. “Unbounding the Field/Note”. Theorizing the contemporary, Society for Cultural Anthropology. Consultado el 3 de febrero de 2021 en: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/unbounding-the-field-note
Pandian, Anand. 2019. A possible anthropology: methods for uneasy times. Durham: Duke University Press.
Povinelli, Elizabeth A. 2016. Geontologies: A requiem to late liberalism. Durham: Duke University Press.
Puig de La Bellacasa, María. 2017. Matters of care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Rieder, John. 2008. Colonialism and the emergence of science fiction. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
Robinson, Cedric J. 2021. Marxismo negro. La formación de la trradición radical negra. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños.
Schalk, Sami. 2018. Bodyminds reimagined: (Dis)ability, race, and gender in black women's speculative fiction. Durham: Duke University Press.
Stengers, Isabelle. 2005. “Introductory notes on an ecology of practices.” Cultural Studies Review, 11(1), 183-196. https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v11i1.3459
Stengers, Isabelle. 2014. La propuesta cosmopolítica. Revista Pléyade, 14: 17-41.
Stengers, Isabelle. 2017. En tiempos de catástrofes. Cómo resistir la barbarie que viene. Buenos Aires: Futuro Anterior ediciones.
Strathern, Marilyn et al. 1987. “Out of context: the persuasive fictions of anthropology [and comments and reply].” Current anthropology, 28(3), 251-281. https://doi.org/10.1086/203527
Strathern, Marilyn. 1988. The gender of the gift: problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Tola, Florencia Carmen y Celeste Medrano. 2020. “When histories and ontologies compose multiples worlds. The past among the Toba people of the Argentinean Chaco”. América Crítica 4(1): 25-34. https://doi.org/10.13125/americacritica/3999
Tsing, Anna L., Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan y Heather Anne Swanson (Eds.). 2017. Arts of living on a damaged planet: Ghosts and monsters of the Anthropocene. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Tsing, Anna L. 2019. “When the things we study respond to each other: tools for unpacking “the material”. En Anthropos and the material, editado por Penny Harvey, Christian Krohn-Hansen y Knut G. Nustad, 221-243. Durham: Duke University Press.
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 2003, “And. After-dinner Speech at ‘Anthropology and Science’”. Manchester Papers in Social Anthropology, 7.
Wagner, Roy. 2016. La invención de la cultura. Madrid: Nola editores.
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J. 2018. “The Necessary Tension between Science Fiction and Anthropology”. Theorizing the contemporary, Society for Cultural Anthropology. Consultado el 5 de febrero de 2021 en: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-necessary-tension-between-science-fiction-and-anthropology#:~:text=The%20necessary%20tension%20between%20SF,life%20and%20alternative%20everyday%20orders.
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J. 2019. Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Yusoff, Kathryn. 2018. A billion black Anthropocenes or None. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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2022-07-11
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Iborra Mallent, J. (2022). Cosmopolitical dialogues between literature and anthropology. América Crítica, 6(1), 71-80. https://doi.org/10.13125/americacritica/4843
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