Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic

(Part of the Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies Series)

by Sandra Gunning

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1478014555

ISBN13:9781478014553

Release Date:October 2021

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic

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