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African American Travel Narratives from Abroad
Gary Totten
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Description for African American Travel Narratives from Abroad
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; JFSL3; WTLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
During the Jim Crow era, African American travellers faced the prospects of violence, harassment, and the denial of services, especially as they made their way throughout the American South. Those who journeyed outside the United States found not only a political and social context that was markedly different from America's, but in their international mobility, they also discovered new ways of identifying themselves in relation to others.
In this book, Gary Totten examines the global travel narratives of a diverse set of African American writers, including Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, Matthew Henson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and ... Read more
During the Jim Crow era, African American travellers faced the prospects of violence, harassment, and the denial of services, especially as they made their way throughout the American South. Those who journeyed outside the United States found not only a political and social context that was markedly different from America's, but in their international mobility, they also discovered new ways of identifying themselves in relation to others.
In this book, Gary Totten examines the global travel narratives of a diverse set of African American writers, including Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, Matthew Henson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341617
SKU
V9781625341617
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About Gary Totten
Gary Totten is professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA. He is editor of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture and editor-in-chief of the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
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