{"product_id":"moving-home-9781478013624","title":"Moving Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMoving Home\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 under 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 the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sandra Gunning’s clear-sighted treatment of the complex political and social worlds in which her subjects found themselves and the multiple strategies through which they negotiated those worlds offers an especially important corrective to universalizing, homogenizing tendencies in much contemporary diasporic scholarship. Gunning argues for a new look at diaspora, particularly as a lens into the process of cultural change. \u003ci\u003eMoving Home \u003c\/i\u003eoffers, in other words, provides a broad theory of the relationship of literature and literary criticism to profound social transformation.” -- Priscilla Wald, author of * Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMoving Home\u003c\/i\u003e takes a nuanced, intersectional approach to travel writers' construction of gendered identities. . . . Throughout her book, Gunning eschews generalization and accentuates instead the specific politics surrounding each text she discusses.\" -- Elizabeth A. Bohls * Review 19 *\u003cbr\u003e\"An important corrective to dominant views of 19th-century Black identities and writings, as well as of travel writing, Gunning’s book will interest all scholars of literature and Black studies. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- D. E. Magill * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Mary Seacole's West Indian Hospitality  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Home and Belonging for Nancy Prince  55\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther  86\u003cbr\u003e 4. Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa  120\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sarah Forbes Bonetta and Travel as Social Capital  160\u003cbr\u003e Coda  197\u003cbr\u003e Notes  205\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  227\u003cbr\u003e Index  251","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408993722711,"sku":"9781478013624","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013624.jpg?v=1730505007","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/moving-home-9781478013624","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}