The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports: African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century

These seventeen pieces on travel in Africa by leading African authors take readers to places at once homelike and foreign. Against the tropes of travel writing, this book offers the acuity of vision of particular types of travelers. These are travelers whose mother tongue may find the hint of familiarity across otherwise unintelligible languages and for whom a foreign land isn't necessarily strange; in it they perceive vestiges of the familiar. For...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611863732
• ISBN13: 9781611863734
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"