Description
travel. Travel experiences (often challenging and vexed) provided the raw data with which writers produced images and ideas meaningful as they learned to navigate, negotiate and even challenge racialized and gendered impediments to their mobility. In their writings African Americans worked to realize a vision and state of freedom informed by those often difficult experiences of mobility. In telling this story, the book hopes to center literary fiction in studies of travel where fiction has largely remained absent.
Author: Michael Ra-Shon Hall
Publisher: Clemson University Press in Association with
Published: 02/05/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.24w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9781949979701
ISBN10: 1949979709
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | African American & Black
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 19th Century
- History | United States | 19th Century
About the Author
Dr. Michael Ra-shon Hall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Hall's current research agenda examines the social and cultural phenomenon of travel and imagination in African-American arts, letters, and cultural history. His research and writing on travel and imagination have appeared in the academic journals Postcolonial Studies and the South Carolina Review as well as the edited volumes Travel and Imagination and Motion Pictures: Travel Ideals in Film.