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Author:
Totten, Gary, author.
Title:
African American travel narratives from abroad : mobility and cultural work in the age of Jim Crow / Gary Totten.
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
ix, 172 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
Travel writing--History--19th century.
American literature--African American authors.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings, American.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
1625341601
9781625341600
162534161X
9781625341617
OCLC:
(OCoLC)898221725
LCCN:
2014050124
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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