Rebecca Jones (Royalty Account)

At the Crossroads

Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

Produktdetails

• African Articulations
• Verlag: James Currey
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 235mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781847013354
• ISBN-10: 184701335X
• Artikelnr.: 63459455

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Jones

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction African travel writing: genres of writing and forms of travel
Travel writing, colonial print culture, and the Yoruba newspapers of the
1920s Isaac Délàno's The Soul of Nigeria, at the crossroads of
"civilisation" Journeys of experience and transformation: the quest
narrative in Yoruba and English fiction Surveying and serving Nigeria in
national travel writing after the civil war "Nigeria is my playground":
travel for travel's sake in twenty-first century Nigeria From the "dark
return" to the "open" nation: diaspora travel narratives of return to
Nigeria Epilogue: Southwest Nigerian travel writing and literary culture at
the crossroads Bibliography