1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990010034210403321

Autore

Shabat, Boris Vladimirovich

Titolo

Distribution of values of holomorphic mappings / Boris Vladimirovich Shabat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : American mathematical society, 1985

ISBN

0-8218-4514-4

Descrizione fisica

V, 225 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Translations of mathematical monographs ; 61

Disciplina

515.9

Locazione

MA1

Collocazione

C-29-(61

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

traduzione dal russo di J. R. King



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910875598203321

Autore

Kalous Isabel (Isabel Kalous, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Deutschland)

Titolo

Black Travel Writing : Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors / Isabel Kalous

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

3-8394-5953-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 pages)

Collana

American Culture Studies

Classificazione

HU 1728

Disciplina

810.9

Soggetti

Travel Writin

African Diaspora

Travel

Africa

African American Writers

Black British Writers

Literature

Postcolonialism

Migration

American Studies

Cultural Studies

Literary Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I Introduction -- 1. Points of Departure: Tracing Roots/Routes to Africa -- 2. On the Current State of Research -- 3. Route Map: Theoretical Premises, Methods, and Objectives of this Study -- II Traveling Black-Traveling Back -- 1. Black Im/Mobilities Past and Present -- 2. Diasporic Return and the Significance of Africa in the Black Imagination -- III An Invisible/Kaleidoscopic Genre: Black Travel Writing -- 1. Defining the Terms: Genre and Genealogy -- 2. The Transnational Slave Narrative and the Roots of Black Travel Writing -- 3. Developments and Trajectories -- 3.1 Travel Writing as a Venue for Criticism -- 3.2 "What



a Difference a Border Makes": Transformative Travel Experiences and Literary Self-Exploration -- 3.3 Twentieth-Century Black Writers in/on Africa -- IV Contemporary Black Travel Narratives -- 1. (Re)Writing Roots -- 1.1 Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) -- 1.2 Isaiah Washington's A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life (2011) -- 2. Disenchanting Africa -- 2.1 Eddy L. Harris's Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africa (1992) -- 2.2 Keith Richburg's Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa (1997) -- 3. Searching for Home -- 3.1 Ekow Eshun's Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond (2005) -- 3.2 Emily Raboteau's Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora (2013) -- 4. Tracing Routes -- 4.1 Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound (2000) -- 4.2 Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007) -- V Conclusion: Ambiguous Arrivals -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

Besprochen in:Biography, 46/3 (2023), Erica L. Williams