Postcolonial Eyes
Intercontinental Travel in Francophone African Literature
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2009
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-84631-049-2 (ISBN)
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-84631-049-2 (ISBN)
Over the past two decades interest in travel has developed significantly. As well as exploring the reasons for Africans’ exclusion from the genre, the book examines the important relationship between ethnicity and travel and identifies the concerns and preoccupations that define African writers’ approaches to travel.
Over the past two decades interest in travel has developed significantly. Critical engagement with imperialism, postcolonialism, diasporas, ethnography and cultural anthropology has led to increasingly sophisticated readings of the travel writing genre and a growing acknowledgement of its complex history. Postcolonial Eyes is the first study of its kind to identify a specifically Sub-Saharan African lineage within the broader tradition of travel writing. As well as exploring the reasons for Africans’ exclusion from the genre, the book examines the important relationship between ethnicity and travel and identifies the concerns and preoccupations that define African writers’ approaches to travel.
Over the past two decades interest in travel has developed significantly. Critical engagement with imperialism, postcolonialism, diasporas, ethnography and cultural anthropology has led to increasingly sophisticated readings of the travel writing genre and a growing acknowledgement of its complex history. Postcolonial Eyes is the first study of its kind to identify a specifically Sub-Saharan African lineage within the broader tradition of travel writing. As well as exploring the reasons for Africans’ exclusion from the genre, the book examines the important relationship between ethnicity and travel and identifies the concerns and preoccupations that define African writers’ approaches to travel.
Aedin Ni Loingsigh is a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, she previously taught at the University of Edinburgh. Previous books include 'Thresholds of Otherness' (Grant & Cutler, 2002) with David Murphy.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Note on Translations
Introduction: History, Genre and New Ways of Reading Travel
1. Mirages de Paris: Staged Encounters of the Exotic Kind
2. Kocoumbo, l’étudiant noir: Foreign Studies
3. Un Nègre à Paris: Tourist Tales
4. Atlantic Travels: Beyond the Slave Ship?
5. L’Africain du Groenland: ‘Primitive’ on ‘Primitives’
6. Le petit prince de Belleville, Maman a un amant: Immigrants and Tourists
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2009 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures ; 11 |
| Verlagsort | Liverpool |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 239 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84631-049-0 / 1846310490 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84631-049-2 / 9781846310492 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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