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Black travel writing : contemporary narratives of travel to Africa by African American and Black British authors /

How did writers portray their journeys to Africa? What meanings were attached to the continent? And what was the role of travel writing as a means of self-exploration? To answer all these questions Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical travel narratives by African American and Black British author...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalous, Isabel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Transcript Verlag, 2021.
Subjects:
British literature.
Littérature britannique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
British literature
Africa.
African American Writers.
African Diaspora.
American Studies.
Black British Writers.
Cultural Studies.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Migration.
Postcolonialism.
Travel.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • I Introduction
  • 1. Points of Departure: Tracing Roots/Routes to Africa
  • 2. On the Current State of Research
  • 3. Route Map: Theoretical Premises, Methods, and Objectives of this Study
  • II Traveling Black-Traveling Back
  • 1. Black Im/Mobilities Past and Present
  • 2. Diasporic Return and the Significance of Africa in the Black Imagination
  • III An Invisible/Kaleidoscopic Genre: Black Travel Writing
  • 1. Defining the Terms: Genre and Genealogy
  • 2. The Transnational Slave Narrative and the Roots of Black Travel Writing
  • 3. Developments and Trajectories
  • 3.1 Travel Writing as a Venue for Criticism
  • 3.2 "What a Difference a Border Makes": Transformative Travel Experiences and Literary Self-Exploration
  • 3.3 Twentieth-Century Black Writers in/on Africa
  • IV Contemporary Black Travel Narratives
  • 1. (Re)Writing Roots
  • 1.1 Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995)
  • 1.2 Isaiah Washington's A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life (2011)
  • 2. Disenchanting Africa
  • 2.1 Eddy L. Harris's Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africa (1992)
  • 2.2 Keith Richburg's Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa (1997)
  • 3. Searching for Home
  • 3.1 Ekow Eshun's Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond (2005)
  • 3.2 Emily Raboteau's Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora (2013)
  • 4. Tracing Routes
  • 4.1 Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound (2000)
  • 4.2 Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007)
  • V Conclusion: Ambiguous Arrivals
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources.