Black Travel Writing : : Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors / / Isabel Kalous.

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• VerfasserIn: Kalous, Isabel,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: American Culture Studies ; 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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
• IV Contemporary Black Travel Narratives
• 1. (Re)Writing Roots
• 2. Disenchanting Africa
• 3. Searching for Home
• 4. Tracing Routes
• V Conclusion: Ambiguous Arrivals
• Introduction
• Bibliography