Black regions of the imagination [electronic resource] : 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.

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