Title Moving home : gender, place, and travel writing in the early Black Atlantic / Sandra Gunning

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 260 pages) : illustrations Series Next wave Next wave (Duke University Press) Contents Mary Seacole's West Indian hospitality -- Home and belonging for Nancy Prince -- The repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther -- Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa -- Sarah Forbes Bonetta and travel as social capital -- Coda Summary "In Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther played a role in the Christianization of colonial Nigeria. Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a formerly enslaved girl gifted to Queen Victoria, traveled the African colonies as the wife of a prominent colonial figure and at the protection of her benefactress. Alongside Nancy Gardiner Prince, Martin R. Delany, Robert Campbell, and others, these writers used their mobility as African diasporic and colonial subjects to explore the Atlantic world and beyond while they negotiated the complex intersections between nation and empire. Rather than categorizing them as merely precursors of Pan-Africanist traditions, Gunning traces their successes and frustrations to capture a sense of the historical and geographical specificities that shaped their careers"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Formerly enslaved authors Afro-Caribbean authors Colonialism and literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2022. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN Subject Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881. Prince, Nancy, 1799- Crowther, Samuel, 1806?-1891. Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885. Campbell, Robert, 1829-1884. Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, 1843?-1880. SUBJECT Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, 1843?-1880 fast Crowther, Samuel, 1806?-1891 fast Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885 fast Prince, Nancy, 1799- fast Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881 fast Subject Travel writing -- Black authors -- History -- 19th century Authors, Black -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- 19th century -- Biography African diaspora in literature. American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- Black authors -- History and criticism American literature -- African influences SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. African diaspora in literature American literature -- African American authors American literature -- African influences Authors, Black British colonies English literature -- Black authors Travel SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056639 Atlantic Ocean Region -- Description and travel Subject Atlantic Ocean Region Genre/Form Electronic books collective biographies. Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Literary criticism Biographies. Literary criticism. Biographies. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021000522 ISBN 9781478021858 1478021853 9781478092636 1478092637

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