Postcolonial eyes : intercontinental travel in Francophone African literature /

Over the past two decades, interest in travel has developed significantly. Critical engagement with imperialism, postcolonialism, diasporas, ethnography, and cultural anthropology has led to increasingly sophisticated readings of the travel writing genre and a growing acknowledgement of its complex...

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Main Author: Ní Loingsigh, Aedín
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2009.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 11.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : history, genre and new ways of reading travel
  • Mirages de Paris : staged encounters of the exotic kind
  • Kocoumbo, l'étudiant noir : foreign studies
  • Un Nègre à Paris : tourist tales
  • Atlantic travels : beyond the slave ship?
  • L'Africain du Grœnland : 'primitive' on 'primitives'
  • Le petit prince de Belleville, maman a un amant : immigrants and tourists.