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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunning, Sandra, author.

Series:

Next wave (Duke University Press)

Next wave : new directions in women's studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Colonies--Description and travel.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

Atlantic Ocean Region--Description and travel.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Travel writing--History--19th century.

Travel writing.

History.

African diaspora in literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature--African influences.

British colonies.

Travel.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 260 pages : b illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther played a role in the Christianization of colonial Nigeria. Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a formerly enslaved girl gifted to Queen Victoria, traveled the African colonies as the wife of a prominent colonial figure and at the protection of her benefactress. Alongside Nancy Gardiner Prince, Martin R. Delany, Robert Campbell, and others, these writers used their mobility as African diasporic and colonial subjects to explore the Atlantic world and beyond while they negotiated the complex intersections between nation and empire. Rather than categorizing them as merely precursors of Pan-Africanist traditions, Gunning traces their successes and frustrations to capture a sense of the historical and geographical specificities that shaped their careers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mary Seacole's West Indian hospitality

Home and belonging for Nancy Prince

The repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther

Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa

Sarah Forbes Bonetta and travel as social capital.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-249) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gunning, Sandra. Moving home.

ISBN:

9781478013624

1478013621

9781478014553

1478014555

9781478021858

1478021853

OCLC:

1229089907