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Black Travel Writing Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors

Author
Kalous, Isabel
Published
Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (274 p.)
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English
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Open Access Unrestricted online access
Summary
What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel to Africa by African American and Black British authors. She places the texts within the long tradition of Black diasporic engagement with the continent, scrutinizes the significance of Black mobility, and demonstrates that travel writing serves as a means to negotiate questions of identity, belonging, history, and cultural memory. To provide a framework for the analyses of contemporary narratives, her study outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of Black travel writing. Authors discussed include, among others, Saidiya Hartman, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips.
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ISBN
9783837659535
9783839459539
Collection
OAPEN Library.
Funding Information
H2020 Excellent Science
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Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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