At the Crossroads : Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 54866820
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781787445918
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer
- ISBN
- 9781847012227
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book rests on a decade of doctoral and postdoctoral research (2009-2019). Jones sought out and translated Yoruba-language texts of different genres, starting with early C20 newspapers. By placing these texts into dialogue with English-language texts produced by Yoruba-speakers, and interviewing Yoruba authors, Jones revealed a sustained and complex Yoruba engagement with ideas about, and experiences of, travel through the period 1914-2014. The collection of these texts depended upon visits to the Nigeria national archives and the identification of local publishing outlets. By combining literary and cultural history approaches, the book challenges the eurocentricity of earlier scholarship on travel writing.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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