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Detecting Outside History in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 44, Number 2, June 2011
- pp. 101-118
- 10.1353/mos.2011.a440545
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
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."
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