The Bloomsbury Handbook to Multiethnic American Travel Writing
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Description
The first collection focused on the travel writing of multiethnic American authors from a variety of traditions, this handbook includes readings of texts by African American, Latinx, Asian American, Indigenous and Native American, Indian American, Italian American, Irish American, and Jewish American immigrant writers.
Contributors consider these texts within a range of historical and cultural contexts – such as forced displacement, migration and immigration, enslavement, Indigenous sovereignty and mobility, and tourism – and approach them through a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, including identity, geography and the environment, gender, modes of travel, genre, race and mobility, and visual culture. In these ways, they provide a comprehensive overview of the history of this sub-genre of travel writing, its recent developments, and its future directions.
The volume covers case studies across the themes of
· Origins, Migrations, and Returns
· Travel and Genre
· Transatlantic and Hemispheric Mobilities
· Precarious Mobilities
The book fills a gap in travel writing scholarship in terms of its field-defining focus on multiethnic American writers. This emphasis identifies the parameters and scope of the field and offers the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the subject to date.
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Multiethnic American Travel Writing
Gary Totten, (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
Section One: Origins, Migrations, and Returns
1. Roots, Routes, and Returns: African American Travel to Africa
Isabel Kalous (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany)
2. Genre, Identity, and Asian American Narratives of Return
Siddharth Srikanth (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
3. Memories of the Fusgeyer Movement in Twenty-First-Century North American Travel Books
Dana Mihailescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
4. Decolonizing Travel Writing: Kazim Ali's Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water
Zhou Xiaojing (University of the Pacific, USA)
5. Building Home: African American Travel Writing
Tim Youngs, Nottingham Trent University, UK (professor emeritus)
Section Two: Travel and Genre
6. Return to Cigar City
Jarret Keene (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
7. Drawn Passages: Multiethnic American Graphic Travel Narratives and the Racialized Geography of Movement
Christopher González (Southern Methodist University, USA)
8. Contemporary Adventure Travel: American Multiethnic Adrenaline Narratives
Kristin J. Jacobson (Stockton University, USA)
9. Genre, Tourism, and Asian American Travel Writing
Lucas Tromly (University of Manitoba, Canada)
10. Fact or Fiction?: (Re)Defining the Study of (African American and Black Atlantic) Travel Writing
Michael Ra-shon Hall (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
11. Defying Diasporas: Contemporary African American Poetry's Influential Journeys
Laura Vrana (University of South Alabama, USA)
12. Charting a Course for Black-Authored Aviation-Based Travel Writing in the United States
Sara Hillin (Lamar University, USA)
Section Three: Transatlantic and Hemispheric Mobilities
13. Italian American Travel Narratives: The Long Durée
Mary Jo Bona (Stony Brook University, USA)
14. Frank O' Connor's “Ireland” and the Pastoral Trope of Irish American Travel Writing
James Byrne (Wheaton College, USA)
15. Remapping Nineteenth-Century Latin America through Women's Travel Narratives
Vanesa Miseres (University of Notre Dame, USA)
16. From South to South: Exoticism and Cosmopolitan Identity in Twentieth-Century Mexican Travel Writing
Miguel A. Cabañas (Michigan State University, USA)
17. Meera Subramanian's Travels in Elemental India
Jeanne Dubino (Appalachian State University, USA)
Section Four: Precarious Mobilities
18. Travel Writing and Refugee Fiction
Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State University, USA)
19. Narrative Lapsus and Nineteenth-Century Black Travail Writing
Michael A. Chaney (Dartmouth College, USA)
20. “I Have Never . . . 'Progressed' that Far”: Luther Standing Bear and the Limits of (Progressive) Mobility during the Boarding School Era
Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
21. Revisiting the Slave Narrative Travelogue: Douglass, Brown, Jacobs, and Delany, with Help from Pope.L
William Merrill Decker (Oklahoma State University, USA)
22. Geographies of Division in John A. Williams's This is My Country Too
Andrew Vogel (Kutztown University, USA)
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 448 |
| ISBN | 9798765133460 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 12 b&w illustrations |
| Series | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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