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Black Regions of the Imagination
African American Writers Between the Nation and the World
Eve Dunbar (Author)
9781439909430
Paperback / softback, published 16 November 2012
214 pages
21 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.666 kg
Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Becoming American through Ethnographic Writing: Zora Neale Hurston and the Performance of Ethnography
2 Escape through Ethnography: Literary Regionalism and the Image of Nonracial Alignment in Richard Wright’s Travel Writing
3 Deconstructing the Romance of Ethnography: Queering Knowledge in James Baldwin’s Another Country
4 Ethnography of the Absurd: Chester Himes’s Detective Fiction and Counterimages of Black Life
Conclusion: Look Down! The Black Arts Affirmation of Place and the Refusal to Translate
Notes
Bibliography
Index