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Moving home gender, place, and travel writing in the early Black Atlantic Sandra Gunning

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Author:
Gunning, Sandra  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (xix, 260 pages) illustrations
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Electronic books
collective biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc
History
Literary criticism
Critiques littéraires
Place:
Atlantic Ocean Region
Atlantique, Région de l'
Pays étrangers, dans la littérature
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne
Date:
2021
19th century
19e siècle
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2022. MiAaHDL
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Elecresource
Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
Contents:
Mary Seacole's West Indian hospitality -- Home and belonging for Nancy Prince -- The repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther -- Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa -- Sarah Forbes Bonetta and travel as social capital -- Coda
Summary:
"In 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 at 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"-- Provided by publisher
Topic:
Travel writing--Black authors--History  Search this
Authors, Black  Search this
African diaspora in literature  Search this
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism  Search this
English literature--Black authors--History and criticism  Search this
American literature--African influences  Search this
Voyage--Art d'écrire--Auteurs noirs--Histoire  Search this
Écrivains noirs  Search this
Africains  Search this
Littérature anglaise--Auteurs noirs--Histoire et critique  Search this
Littérature américaine--Influence africaine  Search this
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)  Search this
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies  Search this
American literature--African American authors  Search this
British colonies  Search this
English literature--Black authors  Search this
Travel  Search this
Colonies  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Descriptions et voyages  Search this
Formerly enslaved authors--Afro-Caribbean authors--Colonialism and literature  Search this
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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edanmdm:siris_sil_1155946