EAN: 9783837659535

BLACK TRAVEL WRITING - ISABEL KALOUS KARTONIERT...

What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period
between the 1990s and 2010s  Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel to
Africa by African American and Black British authors. She places the texts within the long
tradition of Black diasporic engagement with the continent  scrutinizes the significance of
Black mobility  and demonstrates that travel writing serves as a means to negotiate questions
of identity  belonging  history  and cultural memory. To provide a framework for the analyses
of contemporary narratives  her study outlines the emergence  development  and key
characteristics of the multifaceted genre of Black travel writing. Authors discussed include 
among others  Saidiya Hartman  Barack Obama  and Caryl Phillips.

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