Justin Izzo is Assistant Professor of French Studies at Brown University.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Ethnographic Fictions in the French Atlantic 1
1. Ethnographic Didacticism and Africanist Melancholy: Leiris, Hampaté Ba, and the Epistemology of Style 17
2. The Director of Modern Life: Jean Rouch's Ethnofiction 55
3. Folkore, Fiction, and Ethnographic Nation Building: Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, Laferrière 98
4. Creole Novels and the Ethnographic Production of Literary History: Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant 134
5. Speculative Cityscapes and Premillennial Policing: Ethnographies of the Present in Jean-Claude Izzo's Crime Trilogy 169
Conclusion: Empire, Democracy, and Nonsovereign Knowledges 203
Notes 217
Bibliography 257
Index 273
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