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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813057703321

Autore

Totten Gary

Titolo

African American travel narratives from abroad : mobility and cultural work in the age of Jim Crow / / Gary Totten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61376-363-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism

Travel writing - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Embodying segregation: Ida B. Wells on the antilynching circuit -- Southernizing travel in the Black Atlantic: Booker T. Washington's The man farthest down -- "To return and tell the tale of the doing": Matthew Henson and the African American explorer's identity -- Cultural work, disorderly mobility, and the mundane realities of travel: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the crisis -- Bodies of knowledge: cultural authority and black female mobility in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell my horse.