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Southernizing travel in the Black Atlantic: Booker T. Washington's The Man Farthest Down.

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From: MELUS
Date: 20070622
Author:Totten, Gary

Farah J. Griffin, Cheryl J. Fish, and Alasdair Pettinger appraise scholarly approaches to black travel literature in the introductions to two anthologies: A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing (1998), edited by Griffin and Fish, and Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic (1998), edited by Pettinger. Both collections excerpt Booker T. Washington's The Man Farthest Down (1912), the text of his 1910 European trip. They agree that black travel writing demands more critical attention, but Griffin and Fish encourage scholars to rethink the ...