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Author:

Fish, Cheryl J.

Title:

Black and white women's travel narratives : antebellum explorations / Cheryl J. Fish.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xiii, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States--History--19th century
Americans--Foreign countries--History--19th century.
Women travelers--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women, Black--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Travel writing--History--19th century.
Fuller, Margaret,--1810-1850--Travel.
Seacole, Mary,--1805-1881--Travel.
Prince, Nancy,--1799---Travel.
Travel in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Race in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-174) and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Mobile subjectivity, embodied labor -- Journeys and warnings : Nancy Prince's resistant truth telling in New England, Russia, and Jamaica -- Traveling medicine chest : Mary Seacole "plays doctor" at colonial crossroads in Panama and the Crimea -- Encountering hybridity : Margaret Fuller and America in transition -- Coda. Lighting out for other territories : journeys across cultures, genres, and canons.

ISBN:

9780813027111
081302711X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53253096

LCCN:

2003065749

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)