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African travel writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Marion Frank-Wilson
Marion Frank-Wilson*
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Main Library E 660, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
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African Research and Documentation , Volume 92 , 2003 , pp. 27 - 38
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Mildred, Mortimer, journeys through the French African novel. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1990.Google Scholar
Kunene, Daniel P., “Journey as metaphor in African Literature,” in African literature studies: the present state/l'état présent, ed. By Arnold, Stephen, Washington, DC, Three Continents Press, cl985.Google Scholar
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Poetry is not included.Google Scholar
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South Africa has experienced an increase in contact with the rest of the African continent since the end of apartheid: there has been an upsurge in migration to South Africa, and, on the other hand, South Africans travel north. One of the results of this renewed interest in Africa is “the emergence of a new stream of travel writings.” (Jonathan Crush, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, vol 91, no. 4, 2000, p. 438). One of the characteristics of this new kind of South African travel writing is that its authors seek to explain and represent the African continent to their fellow South Africans. This distinguishes it from travel writing from other parts of Africa, and it consequently is listed under a separate heading.Google Scholar
These sources were located in an article by Daniel Kunene which discusses the travel motif in African literature. The language for each of the texts is indicated in parentheses. See Daniel Kunene, “Journey as metaphor in African literature,” in African literature studies: the present state/L'état présent, ed. Arnold, Stephen, Washington, DC, Three Continents Press, cl985.Google Scholar