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Freedom beyond confinement : travel and imagination in African American cultural history and letters
Title
Freedom beyond confinement : travel and imagination in African American cultural history and letters / Michael Ra-shon Hall.
ISBN
9781949979701
1949979709
9781949979718
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Clemson, SC : Clemson University Press, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Using the paradox of freedom and confinement to frame the ways travel represented both opportunity and restriction for African Americans, Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination from post Reconstruction (ca. 1877) to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Travel and imagination in African-American cultural history and letters
Other formats
Online version: Hall, Michael Ra-shon. Freedom beyond confinement [Clemson]: Clemson University Press, 2021
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 13, 2022
Series
African American literature series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"The See-Saw of Race": Langston Hughes, Travel Report, and a Problem of Mobility Mirrored in the Black Press
The Prominence of the Railroad in the African American Imagination: Mobile Men, Gendered Mobility, and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown
Variations on a Paradoxical Theme: Gendered Mobility, Travel, and Imagination in Zora Neale Hurston's Early Writings
Detours Through the Past: Traversing Paradigms in Octavia Butler's Kindred
Dramatizing the African American Experience of Travel in the Jim Crow South: The Negro Motorist Green Book in the African American Literary Imagination.
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