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.