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

dc.contributor.authorGunning, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-30T16:15:28Z
dc.date.available2021-11-30T16:15:28Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-22
dc.identifier.isbn9781478092636
dc.identifier.isbn9781478013624
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/170929en
dc.descriptionIn 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 under 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.en_US
dc.descriptionSandra Gunning is Professor of American Studies and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, author of Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890–1912 and coeditor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen_US
dc.titleMoving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlanticen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumAmerican Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumAfroamerican and African Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/170929/1/Gunning_MovingHome_9781478092636.pdf
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dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.7302/3725
dc.description.filedescriptionDescription of Gunning_MovingHome_9781478092636.pdf : Text
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dc.description.depositorSELFen_US
dc.working.doi10.7302/3725en_US
dc.owningcollnameMichigan Publishing (MPublishing)


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