Moving home : gender, place, and travel writing in the early Black Atlantic /

Moving home : gender, place, and travel writing in the early Black Atlantic /

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"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...

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Main Author: Gunning, Sandra (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Next wave (Duke University Press)
Subjects:
Seacole, Mary, > 1805-1881.
Prince, Nancy, > 1799-
Crowther, Samuel, > 1806?-1891.
Delany, Martin Robison, > 1812-1885.
Campbell, Robert, > 1829-1884.
Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, > 1843?-1880.
1800-1899
Travel writing > Black authors > History > 19th century.
Authors, Black > Atlantic Ocean Region > 19th century > Biography.
African diaspora in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > Black authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African influences.
Great Britain > Colonies > Description and travel.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Description and travel.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Literary criticism.
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Table of 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.

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