Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing

It follows the development of a minor tradition where French metropolitan authors traveling abroad who are aware of the ethical conundrums of representing world peoples & shows how the ethical awareness of the colonial-modern authors have impacted minority self-representation in France

Matt Reeck is a Guggenheim Fellow in Translation. Having completed his PhD in the Comparative Literature Department at UCLA, he is currently an Adjunct Professor of French and Francophone Studies at St. John’s University.