Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Writing in the Margins of the Twentieth Century 1
5. PART 1. Ethnographic Meaning Making and the Politics of Difference
6. 1. Standing on the Middle Ground: Ella Deloria’s Decolonizing Methodology 41
7. 2. “Lyin’ Up a Nation”: Zora Neale Hurston and the Literary Uses of the Folk 71
8. 3. A Romance of the Border: J. Frank Dobie, Jovita González, and the Study of the Folk in Texas 103
9. PART 2. Re-Writing Culture: Storytelling and the Decolonial Imagination
10. 4. “All My Relatives Are Noble”: Recovering the Feminine in Waterlily 145
11. 5. “De nigger woman is de mule uh de world”: Storytelling and the Black Feminist Tradition 171
12. 6. Feminism on the Border: Caballero and the Poetics of Collaboration 199
13. Epilogue. “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Toward a Passionate Praxis 225
14. Notes 233
15. Bibliography 259
16. Index 275