Jackson Harmattan

A Philosophical Fiction
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53905-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

A compelling work of ethnography, memoir, and fiction that explores the emancipatory power of transcending boundaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Michael D.

Jackson, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Sachbuch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Limitrophes
Show and Tell
A Place in the Bush
Allegories of the Wilderness
Within and Without Limits
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Life Is Elsewhere
Dark Soundings
On Not Being Rule Governed
Confronting One's Demons
Renata
Sentiments Limitrophes
The Faraway Tree
What Lies Beneath
Schrödinger's Cat
Notes
2. Harmattan
Stories Happen
Thousands Bay
Persona Non Grata
Tom Lannon's Story
Cosmega
Sangbamba
Ezekiel's Story
Petra's Letter
No Condition Is Permanent
The School
Morowa
Night
After Fieldwork
Mistral

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Jackson is Distinguished Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, the Warlpiri of Central Australia, the Kuku-Yalanji of Cape York Peninsula, and with African migrants in Europe. He is the author of more than thirty books on ethnography, poetry, and fiction, including the prize-winning Paths Toward a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry and At Home in the World.