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Author Jones, Rebecca

Title At the Crossroads : Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
Published Melton : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages)
Series African Articulations Ser. ; v. Volume 7
African Articulations Ser
Contents Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Orthography; Introduction; 1 African travel writing: genres of writing and forms of travel; 2 Travel writing, colonial print culture, and the Yoruba newspapers of the 1920s; 3 Isaac Délànọ̀'s The Soul of Nigeria, at the crossroads of 'civilisation'; 4 Journeys of experience and transformation: the quest narrative in Yoruba and English fiction; 5 Surveying and serving Nigeria in national travel writing after the civil war; 6 'Nigeria is my playground': travel for travel's sake in twentyfirst century Nigeria
7 From the 'dark return' to the 'open' nation: diaspora travel narratives of return to NigeriaEpilogue: Southwest Nigerian travel writing and literary culture at the crossroads; Bibliography; Index
Summary A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Travelers' writings, Nigerian -- History and criticism
Yoruba literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
African literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
African literature (English)
Travel
Travelers' writings, Nigerian
Yoruba literature
SUBJECT Nigeria -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091856
Subject Nigeria
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787445918
1787445917