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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.
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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
