At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English (African Articulations, 7) (Yoruba Edition)
By: Jones, Rebecca
ISBN: 9781847012227
$233.00
This is the first book to examine the production of Nigerian travel narratives about Nigeria in the century from colonization 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 comprises close 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.