Eve Dunbar

Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers Between the Nation and the World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eve Dunbar is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• American Litera
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781439909423
• ISBN-10: 1439909423
• Artikelnr.: 35723584

Autorenporträt

Eve Dunbar is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
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