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, Hamp¿té B¿, 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