Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. I Introduction
5. 1. Points of Departure: Tracing Roots/Routes to Africa 9
6. 2. On the Current State of Research 15
7. 3. Route Map: Theoretical Premises, Methods, and Objectives of this Study 25
8. II Traveling Black—Traveling Back
9. 1. Black Im/Mobilities Past and Present 31
10. 2. Diasporic Return and the Significance of Africa in the Black Imagination 48
11. III An Invisible/Kaleidoscopic Genre: Black Travel Writing
12. 1. Defining the Terms: Genre and Genealogy 63
13. 2. The Transnational Slave Narrative and the Roots of Black Travel Writing 76
14. 3. Developments and Trajectories 91
15. IV Contemporary Black Travel Narratives
16. 1. (Re)Writing Roots 115
17. 2. Disenchanting Africa 144
18. 3. Searching for Home 180
19. 4. Tracing Routes 213
20. V Conclusion: Ambiguous Arrivals
21. Introduction 249
22. Bibliography 255