Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse

Kirin Narayan

doi:10.2307/j.ctvgs09jj.14

Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse

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Anton Chekhov walked into a book I was writing about fifty pages into the first draft. He wasn’t yet leaning on the cane that so often appears in photographs of him from the years that his energy was diminished by tuberculosis, and he didn’t yet peer through a pince-nez. He came striding into my manuscript with energetic purpose: a tall bearded young man with dark hair combed back from his forehead. I had been drafting chapters, trying to work out how ethnographers might acquire tools for vivid storytelling used by writers of creative nonfiction and also how writers of creative...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Anthropologist as Writer
Editors	Helena Wulff
Place of Publication	Oxford, United Kingdom
Publisher	Berghahn Books
Pages	143-158pp.
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78533-018-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs09jj.14
Publication status	Published - 2016

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