Jones At the Crossroads

Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78744-591-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Yoruba, Band 7, 312 Seiten

Reihe: African Articulations

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2020

A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jones Rebecca:
Rebecca Jones is a Lecturer in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.