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Record Nr.

UNINA9910567778503321

Autore

Gunning Sandra

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, North Carolina : , : Duke University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-4780-9263-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages)

Collana

Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Disciplina

809.93352996

Soggetti

Travel writing - History - 19th century

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - African influences

African diaspora in literature

Atlantic Ocean Region Description and travel

Great Britain Colonies Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mary Seacole's West Indian Hospitality -- 2. Home and Belonging for Nancy Prince -- 3. The Repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther -- 4. Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa -- 5. Sarah Forbes Bonetta and Travel as Social Capital -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Sandra Gunning draws on nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to explore the conditions and possibilities of race, gender, sex, and class that early black Atlantic travel enabled.