Bloomsbury Handbook of Multiethnic American Travel Writing

The first collection focused on the travel writing of multiethnic American authors from a variety of traditions, this handbook includes readings of texts by African American, Latinx, Asian American, Indigenous and Native American, Indian American, Italian American, Irish American, Jewish American, and other immigrant writers.Contributors consider these texts within a range of historical and cultural contexts – such as forced displacement, migration and immigration, enslavement, Indigenous sovereignty and mobility, and tourism – and approach them through a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, including identity, geography and the environment, gender, modes of travel, genre, race and mobility, and visual culture. In these ways, they provide a comprehensive overview of the history of this field of travel writing, its recent developments, and its future directions.The volume covers case studies across the themes of· Origins, Migrations, and Returns· Travel and Genre· Transatlantic and Hemispheric Mobilities· Precarious MobilitiesThe book fills a gap in travel writing scholarship in terms of its field-defining focus on multiethnic American writers. This emphasis identifies the parameters and scope of the field and offers the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the subject to date.