Black Regions of the Imagination [Recurso electrónico] : African American Writers between the Nation and the World / Eve Dunbar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Becoming American through ethnographic writing: Zora Neale Hurston and the performance of ethnography -- Escape through ethnography: literary regionalism and the image of non-racial alignment in Richard Wright's travel writing -- Deconstructing the romance of rthnography: queering knowledge in James Baldwin's Another country -- Ethnography of the absurd: Chester Himes' detective fiction and counter-images of Black life -- Conclusion: Look down! the Black arts affirmation of place and the refusal to translate.

Libro Electrónico

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