African American travel narratives from abroad
Subtitle: mobility and cultural work in the age of Jim Crow
By: Gary Totten
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amherst; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781625341600; 9781625341617
Subjects: American literature; African American authors; History and criticism; Travelers' writings, American; Travel writing; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Embodying segregation: Ida B. Wells on the antilynching circuit; title: Southernizing travel in the Black Atlantic: Booker T. Washington's The man farthest down; title: "To return and tell the tale of the doing": Matthew Henson and the African American explorer's identity; title: Cultural work, disorderly mobility, and the mundane realities of travel: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the crisis; title: Bodies of knowledge: cultural authority and black female mobility in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell my horse.