Postcolonial Eyes: Intercontinental Travel in Francophone African Literature
Loingsigh, Aedin NiAuthor
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2009.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Introduction : history, genre and new ways of reading travel -- Mirages de Paris : staged encounters of the exotic kind -- Kocoumbo, l'étudiant noir : foreign studies -- Un Nègre à Paris : tourist tales -- Atlantic travels : beyond the slave ship? -- L'Africain du Grœnland : 'primitive' on 'primitives' -- Le petit prince de Belleville, maman a un amant : immigrants and tourists.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
African literature (French)
Travel writing.
Travel in literature.
Authors, African
National characteristics, African, in literature.
Travelers