At the Crossroads - Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English

Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020
'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Rebecca Jones

Summary

Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Jones, Rebecca (Royalty Account) Jones
• Publisher: James Currey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2022
• EAN: 9781847013354
• ISBN: 978-1-84701-335-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 155 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Illustrations: 5 b/w illus.
• Series: African Articulations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic