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Book SynopsisSandra Gunning draws on nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to explore the conditions and possibilities of race, gender, sex, and class that early black Atlantic travel enabled.
Trade Review“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.
Moving Home offers, 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 *
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Moving Home 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 *
"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."
-- D. E. Magill * Choice *
Table of ContentsPreface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
1. Mary Seacole's West Indian Hospitality 23
2. Home and Belonging for Nancy Prince 55
3. The Repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther 86
4. Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa 120
5. Sarah Forbes Bonetta and Travel as Social Capital 160
Coda 197
Notes 205
Bibliography 227
Index 251
