| Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic Contributor(s): Gunning, Sandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478013621 ISBN-13: 9781478013624 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $97.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Black Studies (global) - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2021000522 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |