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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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| 520 | 8 | |a 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 authors published between the 1990s and 2010s. To provide a framework for the analyses of contemporary texts, she outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of transnational Black travel writing. Authors discussed include, among others, Saidiya Hartman, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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