Black regions of the imagination
Subtitle: African American writers between the nation and the world
By: Eve Dunbar
Publisher: Temple University Press; American Literatures Initiative
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781439909423; 9781439909430; 9781439909447
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; African American authors; History and criticism; American literature; Ethnology in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Becoming American through ethnographic writing:  Zora Neale Hurston and the performance of ethnography; title: Escape through ethnography:  literary regionalism and the image of non-racial alignment in Richard Wright's travel writing; title: Deconstructing the romance of rthnography:  queering knowledge in James Baldwin's Another country; title: Ethnography of the absurd:  Chester Himes' detective fiction and counter-images of Black life; title: Conclusion:  Look down! the Black arts affirmation of place and the refusal to translate.