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OverviewShortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing. Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have been writing about their travels within Nigeria using a variety of media and forms, from serialised newspaper travelogues to personal diaries, autobiographies and online narratives.These works offer important insights into how Nigerians have represented Nigeria to itself and to the world. This is the first book to examine the production of Nigerian travel narratives about Nigeria in the century from colonisation to independence. Rebecca Jones argues that we can read these texts both as the products of a local Nigerian print culture, and through their articulations with global travel writing traditions. Focusing on travel writing published from 1914 to 2014 in the Yoruba-speaking region of southwestern Nigeria, home to a well-established and prolific writing and print culture in both Yoruba and English, this cultural history of Nigerian travel comprisesclose readings of these works, and argues that the production of travel writing in the region can be read not simply as a foreign import, but as a cluster of genres with a cohesive local history. Writers discussed include Samuel Ajayi Crowther, I.B. Thomas, E.A. Akintan, Isaac Delano, D.O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri, Babatunde Shadeko, Damilola Ajenifuja, Chibuzor Mirian Azubuike, Pelu Awofeso, Lape Soetan, Teju Cole, Adewale Maja-Pearce, Noo Saro-Wiwa, and the Invisible Borders collective. Nigeria: Premium Times Books Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rebecca Jones (Royalty Account)Publisher: James Currey Imprint: James Currey Volume: v. 7 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781847012227ISBN 10: 1847012221 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 20 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: Yoruba Table of Contents"Introduction African travel writing: genres of writing and forms of travel Travel writing, colonial print culture, and the Yoruba newspapers of the 1920s Isaac Délàno's The Soul of Nigeria, at the crossroads of ""civilisation"" Journeys of experience and transformation: the quest narrative in Yoruba and English fiction Surveying and serving Nigeria in national travel writing after the civil war ""Nigeria is my playground"": travel for travel's sake in twenty-first century Nigeria From the ""dark return"" to the ""open"" nation: diaspora travel narratives of return to Nigeria Epilogue: Southwest Nigerian travel writing and literary culture at the crossroads Bibliography"ReviewsThis original and highly engaging book looks at a century-long history of writing by Nigerians in which journeys are the organising theme. It encompasses a diversity of genres, formal and informal - Yoruba newspaper columns, a memoir, several generations of Yoruba fiction, a contemporary travel blog, diasporic narratives of belonging and return. This is travel writing not as imperial gaze but as a mode of engaging with and articulating new experiences of sociality and space from within . Rebecca Jones's study breaks new ground in reading English- and Yoruba-language texts alongside each other, recognising their long history of interaction and cohabitation. The sparkling, illuminating, insightful interpretations of the texts makes the book a joy to read. - Karin Barber, Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham This is a rich and nuanced book that admirably succeeds in reframing research on travel writing by drawing attention to the multifaceted history of travel writings by African authors which scholars have long ignored. - Thomas G. Kirsch, Professor of Ethnology & Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz [A]n important study of travel writing in its most expansive sense. By focussing on writing in Yoruba and English, Rebecca Jones has created a work which challenges the efficacy of colonialist binaries of tradition/modernity, local/global, civilised/native, bringing together an astonishing range of writing including formal travelogues, diaries, letters, newspapers, fictional texts, autobiographies, blogs and oral narratives. This is a crucial and urgent study which innovates not only African literary studies but textual analysis more broadly, challenging us to offer more nuanced, contextualised and rigorous understandings of the intersection of print culture, narrative and the negotiation of ideas of self, region, community and nation as lived and living experiences. - Madhu Krishnan, Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures, University of Bristol At the Crossroads is guaranteed to remain an authoritative reference for many years to come. * Canadian Journal of African Studies * This original and highly engaging book looks at a century-long history of writing by Nigerians in which journeys are the organising theme. It encompasses a diversity of genres, formal and informal - Yoruba newspaper columns, a memoir, several generations of Yoruba fiction, a contemporary travel blog, diasporic narratives of belonging and return. This is travel writing not as imperial gaze but as a mode of engaging with and articulating new experiences of sociality and space 'from within'. Rebecca Jones's study breaks new ground in reading English- and Yoruba-language texts alongside each other, recognising their long history of interaction and cohabitation. The sparkling, illuminating, insightful interpretations of the texts makes the book a joy to read.' - -- Karin Barber, Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham 'This is a rich and nuanced book that admirably succeeds in reframing research on travel writing by drawing attention to the multifaceted history of travel writings by African authors which scholars have long ignored.' - -- Thomas G. Kirsch, Professor of Ethnology & Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz '[A]n important study of travel writing in its most expansive sense. By focussing on writing in Yoruba and English, Rebecca Jones has created a work which challenges the efficacy of colonialist binaries of tradition/modernity, local/global, civilised/native, bringing together an astonishing range of writing including formal travelogues, diaries, letters, newspapers, fictional texts, autobiographies, blogs and oral narratives. This is a crucial and urgent study which innovates not only African literary studies but textual analysis more broadly, challenging us to offer more nuanced, contextualised and rigorous understandings of the intersection of print culture, narrative and the negotiation of ideas of self, region, community and nation as lived and living experiences.' - -- Madhu Krishnan, Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures, University of Bristol Author InformationRebecca Jones is a Lecturer in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. 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