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This book examines the rich collection of travel writing about Spain by twentieth-century African American writers as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Frank Verby, surveying the ways in which such authors perceive Spain's place in the world. From the vantage point of Spain, these African American writers create transformative literary maps of the world that invite readers to reconsider their relations to others.
Aquest llibre explora la rica col·lecció de literatura de viatges sobre Espanya escrita per autors afroamericans com Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright i Frank Verby, i examina les formes en què els autors perceben el lloc d'Espanya al món. Des de l'observació d'Espanya, aquests prominents escriptors afroamericans creen mapes literaris que transformen el món i que conviden els lectors a reconsiderar les seues relacions amb els altres.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
“A hunger to understand”
CHAPTER 1
Approaching African American Travel Writing about Spain
CHAPTER 2
“Moors as dark as me”: Mapping Spain in the Early Twentieth Century
CHAPTER 3
Frank Yerby’s Novel of Moorish Spain and the Trans-Mediterranean
CHAPTER 4
“Spain was baffling”: Locating the West in Richard Wright’s Pagan Spain
CHAPTER 5
A Stranger in Spain?: Lori Tharps’s Kinky Gazpacho
CONCLUSION
WORKS CITED
