African American travel writing and the politics of mobility: The narrative of nancy prince
African American travel writing and the politics of mobility: The narrative of nancy prince
dc.contributor.author | Nayar, Pramod K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-27T01:51:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-27T01:51:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-04-22 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines a 19th-century travel narrative by an African-American woman, Nancy Prince, and identifies three principal rhetorical modes in her narrative: mobility, labour and community. It suggests that Prince's rhetoric of mobility consists of a mobility of poverty, when she moved from one place to another due to her straitened circumstances, and a mobility of agency, when she travelled as a means to assert her individuality, but within specific 'structures of travel'. Prince's rhetoric of labour gives her agency as an individual when she undertakes ethnographic information-gathering and maps her own suffering. Labour, like mobility, helps her demonstrate an individual self. Finally, the rhetoric of community aligns Prince with the evangelical movement. Her agency as a black person becomes iconic of the transformation of her race itself - through the choice of a career and the practice of a profession outside the USA. This rhetoric takes her narrative out of the mere category of travel writing into one about community-building and racial identity. © 2009 SAGE Publications. | |
dc.identifier.citation | Indian Journal of Gender Studies. v.16(1) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 09715215 | |
dc.identifier.uri | 10.1177/097152150801600101 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/097152150801600101 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4281 | |
dc.title | African American travel writing and the politics of mobility: The narrative of nancy prince | |
dc.type | Journal. Article | |
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