Black Travel Writing
Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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I Introduction
1. Points of Departure: Tracing Roots/Routes to Africa
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2. On the Current State of Research
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3. Route Map: Theoretical Premises, Methods, and Objectives of this Study
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II Traveling Black—Traveling Back
1. Black Im/Mobilities Past and Present
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2. Diasporic Return and the Significance of Africa in the Black Imagination
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III An Invisible/Kaleidoscopic Genre: Black Travel Writing
1. Defining the Terms: Genre and Genealogy
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2. The Transnational Slave Narrative and the Roots of Black Travel Writing
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3. Developments and Trajectories
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IV Contemporary Black Travel Narratives
1. (Re)Writing Roots
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2. Disenchanting Africa
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3. Searching for Home
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4. Tracing Routes
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V Conclusion: Ambiguous Arrivals
Introduction
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Bibliography
Seiten 255 - 274
24 November 2021, 274 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-5953-9
File size: 1.94 MB
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