Ebook: Imaginary ethnographies: literature, culture, and subjectivity

I. Writing, desire, and transference -- Another writing lesson: Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and the chief of the Nambikwara -- Traveling literature, traveling theory: imaginary encounters between East and West -- Restriction and mobility: desire, transference, and the cultural imaginary -- II. Aannibals, children, and aliens -- The melancholic cannibal: Juan José Saer's The witness and Marianne Wiggins's John Dollar -- War children in a global world: Richard Powers's Operation wandering soul -- Ethnographies of the future: personhood, agency, and power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis -- III. Coda -- Cosmographical meditations on the inhuman: Samuel Beckett's The lost ones.