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“L’ Afrique Fantôme is at heart a book about the impossibility of human contact”. Discuss.
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"L' Afrique Fantôme is at heart a book about the impossibility of human contact". Discuss. When Michel Leiris set off for North Africa in 1931, he did so a disillusioned man with personal problems. Leiris was embittered by Paris and its metropolitan strains; he was looking for a psychological rebirth. The understanding of Leiris' contemporary background upon writing "L'Afrique Fantôme" takes its importance from the subjectivity of ethnographic writing. Essentially, Leiris writes in the style of a diary which underlines his personal obsessions and fears. However, the intention of this essay is to consider how much "L'Afrique Fantôme" is in fact a book about the impenetrability of cultural and ethnical barriers. Firstly, in order to examine the subject more thoroughly, it is important to consider what is precisely meant by "human contact". This can be defined in either a physical or a metaphysical way. In this particular book,...
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