Book Chapter

African Travel Writing

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Citation

Ni Loingsigh A (2016) African Travel Writing. In: Thompson C (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing. Routledge Literature Companions. London: Routledge, pp. 185-195. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Travel-Writing/Thompson/p/book/9780415825245

Abstract
This chapter explores the twentieth-century emergence of non-fictional sub-Saharan African travel narratives. Anchored in a discussion of Nigerien Damouré Zika's Journal de voyage, it explores the historical reasons for the apparaent paucity of examples of this genre in the African context. At the same time, it maps some of the key accounts that do exist and points to current and future trends.

Keywords
travel writing; African literature; orality; Damouré Zika; Jean Rouch

StatusPublished
Title of seriesRoutledge Literature Companions
Publication date01/01/2016
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/24205
PublisherRoutledge
Publisher URLhttps://www.routledge.com/…ok/9780415825245
Place of publicationLondon
ISBN9780415825245
eISBN9780203366127

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Dr Aedin Ni Loingsigh

Dr Aedin Ni Loingsigh

Lectureship in French and Francophone, French