The Journal of African Travel-writing
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 204
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A Stranger in the Village
Author: Farah J. Griffin
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1999-05-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780807071212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDispatches, diaries, memoirs, and letters by African-American travelers in search of home, justice, and adventure-from the Wild West to Australia.
The Last Train to Zona Verde
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 061883933X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa from Cape Town to the Congo.
The Cambridge History of Travel Writing
Author: Nandini Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 110861681X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Travelling While Black
Author: Nanjala Nyabola
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2021-04-09
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1787383822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever? Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.
Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1850
Author: Caroline Franklin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-30
Total Pages: 3102
ISBN-13: 1000743632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public with expansionist enterprises. Covering the period of the French Revolution up until Victoria’s ascendancy to the throne, and featuring journeys spanning France and central Europe, India, and South America, this collection brings together some of the most interesting travel accounts written by women at this time. The authors included come from a variety of social backgrounds and their written styles are as varied as their journeys. For instance, Williams and Morgan were professional writers who may be described as ‘feminists’, while Fay and Falconbridge were ordinary women who had been through extraordinary experiences.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Author: Mungo Park
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Published: 1800
Total Pages: 596
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Author: Sandra Gunning
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2021-09-13
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1478021853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther played a role in the Christianization of colonial Nigeria. Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a formerly enslaved girl "gifted" to Queen Victoria, traveled the African colonies as the wife of a prominent colonial figure and under the protection of her benefactress. Alongside Nancy Gardiner Prince, Martin R. Delany, Robert Campbell, and others, these writers used their mobility as African diasporic and colonial subjects to explore the Atlantic world and beyond while they negotiated the complex intersections between nation and empire. Rather than categorizing them as merely precursors of Pan-Africanist traditions, Gunning traces their successes and frustrations to capture a sense of the historical and geographical specificities that shaped their careers.
Uwenzi
Author: David O. Akombo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2015-12-30
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1504962842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUWENZI:The Pan-African Factor, A 21st-Century View seeks to facilitate a much-needed and provocative 21st-century dialogue on optimizing the global linkage, networking and appreciation of African peoples, resources, culture and/or interests, i.e., Pan-Africanism. As a focus point, the book posits and explains the need and rationale for Africa and its Diaspora to become reciprocal resources for each other.
Postcolonial Travel Writing
Author: J. Edwards
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-11-10
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0230294766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.
