Detecting Outside History in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275763 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare Counihan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 101-118 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2011.a440545 |
| OpenAlex | W2993994466 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Buttressed by various paratexts, the novel and film The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency deploy ethnographic strategies to authorize themselves as realistic representations of Botswana. This essay argues that this use of ethnographic realism and salvage ethnography, respectively, reveal Western desires that Africa remain ahistorical and "authentic."
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Art · Ethnography · Literature · Realism · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |