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At the Crossroads : Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English.
A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Melton :
Boydell & Brewer, Limited,
2019.
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| Colección: | African Articulations Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Orthography; Introduction; 1 African travel writing: genres of writing and forms of travel; 2 Travel writing, colonial print culture, and the Yoruba newspapers of the 1920s; 3 Isaac Délànọ`'s The Soul of Nigeria, at the crossroads of 'civilisation'; 4 Journeys of experience and transformation: the quest narrative in Yoruba and English fiction; 5 Surveying and serving Nigeria in national travel writing after the civil war; 6 'Nigeria is my playground': travel for travel's sake in twentyfirst century Nigeria
- 7 From the 'dark return' to the 'open' nation: diaspora travel narratives of return to NigeriaEpilogue: Southwest Nigerian travel writing and literary culture at the crossroads; Bibliography; Index