Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Orthography
- Introduction
- 1 African Travel Writing: Genres of Writing and Forms of Travel
- 2 Travel Writing, Colonial Print Culture, and the Yoruba Newspapers of the 1920s
- 3 Isaac Délànỏ's The Soul of Nigeria, at the Crossroads of ‘Civilisation’
- 4 Journeys of Experience and Transformation: the Quest Narrative in Yoruba and English Fiction
- 5 Surveying and Serving Nigeria in National Travel Writing After the Civil War
- 6 ‘Nigeria is My Playground’: Travel for Travel's Sake in Twentyfirst Century Nigeria
- 7 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
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Orthography
- Introduction
- 1 African Travel Writing: Genres of Writing and Forms of Travel
- 2 Travel Writing, Colonial Print Culture, and the Yoruba Newspapers of the 1920s
- 3 Isaac Délànỏ's The Soul of Nigeria, at the Crossroads of ‘Civilisation’
- 4 Journeys of Experience and Transformation: the Quest Narrative in Yoruba and English Fiction
- 5 Surveying and Serving Nigeria in National Travel Writing After the Civil War
- 6 ‘Nigeria is My Playground’: Travel for Travel's Sake in Twentyfirst Century Nigeria
- 7 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
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- At the CrossroadsNigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English, pp. 1 - 26Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019