The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports: African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century Tapa blanda -

Paperback / softback. New. These seventeen pieces on travel in Africa by leading African authors take readers to places at once homelike and foreign. Against the tropes of travel writing, this book offers the acuity of vision of particular types of travellers. These are travellers whose mother tongue may find the hint of familiarity across otherwise unintelligible languages and for whom a foreign land isn’t necessarily strange; in it they perceive vestiges of the familiar. For them, the act of travelling extends a canvas on which to depict someone else’s reality - a reality never too distant from their own.<br /><br />What makes these writings coalesce is a reflection about the act of being in motion, about reconfiguring place; a consciousness of how geography redirects the focus of one’s gaze and, in turn, how that altered gaze filters inward. Having absorbed the landscape, inhaled the scents, paid heed to accents, and accepted the… Leer más

East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2020. Paperback. 1611863732 . Binding tight, pages and covers clean. A nice copy. ; B & W Photo; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages .

Michigan State Univ Pr, 2020. Paperback. New. 218 pages. 6.00x9.00x0.75 inches.