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Black Travel Writing: Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors
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Abstract 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 diaspor... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
Africa; literature; travel; post-colonialism; migration; cultural studies
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
Travel Writin; African Diaspora; African American Writers; Black British Writers; American Studies; Literary Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
272 p.
Series
American Culture Studies, 35
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459539
ISSN
2747-4380
ISBN
978-3-8394-5953-9
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed