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

by Sandra Gunning

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014555
• ISBN13: 9781478014553
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"