Machine generated contents note: Preface vii -- Introduction: Primitivism as a Theme in Rhetoric, Science, -- and Art xi -- 1. Stein and Picasso: The Anti-Aesthetes 3 -- 2. The Fact of Blackness in "Melanctha" 31 -- 3. Hemingway's Primal Scene 55 -- 4. Zora Neale Hurston's Ethnological Fiction 75 -- Bibliography 99 -- Index 119