African American travel narratives from abroad : mobility and cultural work in the age of Jim Crow /

Totten, Gary.

African American travel narratives from abroad : mobility and cultural work in the age of Jim Crow / Gary Totten. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Embodying segregation: Ida B. Wells on the antilynching circuit -- Southernizing travel in the Black Atlantic: Booker T. Washington's The man farthest down -- "To return and tell the tale of the doing": Matthew Henson and the African American explorer's identity -- Cultural work, disorderly mobility, and the mundane realities of travel: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the crisis -- Bodies of knowledge: cultural authority and black female mobility in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell my horse.



9781613763636


Travel writing--History--19th century.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

PS153 / .A375 2015