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

Acknowledgments; Prologue Introduction; One: Becoming American Through Ethnographic Writing: Zora Neale Hurston and the Performance of Ethnography; Two: Escape Through Ethnography: Literary Regionalism and the Image of Non-racial Alignment in Richard Wright's Travel Writing; Three: Deconstructing the Romance of Ethnography: Queering Knowledge in James Baldwin's Another Country; Four: Ethnography of the Absurd: Chester Himes' Detective Fiction and Counter-Images of Black Life; Epilogue: Look Down! The Black Arts Affirmation of Place and the Refusal to Translate Bibliography