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Gruesser, John C. "Afro-American Travel Literature and Africanist Discourse." Black American Literature Forum 24, no. 1 (1990): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2904063.

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Brusky, Sarah. "The Travels of William and Ellen Craft: Race and Travel Literature in the 19th Century." Prospects 25 (October 2000): 177–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000636.

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Describing their move north in an escape from slavery, William and Ellen Craft's slave narrative, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860), offers a peculiar form of travel literature. The notion that slave narratives chronicle movement has not gone unrecognized. Indeed, scholarship on 20th-century African-American literature often argues the thematic importance of a journey motif that some trace to antebellum America. Blyden Jackson, for example, notes that African-American “literature bears within itself content, as well as themes and moods, reflecting the Great Migration” (xv), the period from early to mid-20th century, which Marcus E. Jones says actually began before the Civil War when blacks fled the South for the urban, industrial North (30). And Robert Stepto has identified two basic types of journeys in African-American literature: one of “ascent” in which “an ‘enslaved’ and semiliterate figure [travels] on a ritualized journey to a symbolic North,” and one of “immersion,” which is a “ritualized journey into a symbolic South” (6). Such discussions of journey motifs, however, have not yet led to an examination of slave narratives as travel literature.
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황승현. "Emergent Asian American Identity in Cold War Travel Literature." English21 29, no. 1 (March 2016): 265–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.35771/engdoi.2016.29.1.012.

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Prebel, J. "Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910; Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature." American Literature 74, no. 2 (June 1, 2002): 406–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-406.

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Vance, William, and Christopher Mulvey. "Anglo-American Landscapes: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature." Studies in Romanticism 24, no. 3 (1985): 420. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25600551.

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Bush, Clive, and Christopher Mulvey. "Anglo-American Landscapes: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature." Yearbook of English Studies 17 (1987): 318. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3507724.

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Stevenson, Elizabeth. "ANGLO-AMERICAN LANDSCAPES: A STUDY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANGLO-AMERICAN TRAVEL LITERATURE." Landscape Journal 4, no. 1 (1985): 42–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/lj.4.1.42.

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Espey, D. "American Travel Revisited." American Literary History 17, no. 4 (January 1, 2005): 808–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/aji048.

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Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak. "Writing Mexico: Travel and Intercultural Encounter in Contemporary American Literature." symploke 17, no. 1-2 (2009): 95–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sym.2009.0023.

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Fellman, Michael, and Christopher Mulvey. "Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature." Journal of American History 78, no. 2 (September 1991): 672. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2079593.

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Stout, Janis P., and Christopher Mulvey. "Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature." American Literature 63, no. 2 (June 1991): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927174.

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Cowden, Joanna D., and Christopher Mulvey. "Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth Century Anglo-American Travel Literature." Journal of the Early Republic 13, no. 1 (1993): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3124213.

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Hurt, James, and Christopher Mulvey. "Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature." Modern Language Review 87, no. 1 (January 1992): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3732344.

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Spahr, J. "Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry." American Literature 78, no. 2 (June 1, 2006): 397–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-011.

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Yao, Steven G., and Yunte Huang. "Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature." Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) 24 (December 2002): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/823492.

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Denegri, Francesca. "Desde la ventana: Women "Pilgrims" in Nineteenth-Century Latin-American Travel Literature." Modern Language Review 92, no. 2 (April 1997): 348. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3734807.

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Maszewska, Jadwiga. "Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories." Text Matters, no. 2 (December 4, 2012): 239–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-012-0067-2.

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In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short stories, Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” Louise Erdrich’s “The World’s Greatest Fishermen,” and Daniel Chacon’s “The Biggest City in the World,” I attempt to demonstrate that as a consequence of technological development, with travel becoming increasingly accessible to ethnic Americans, their search for identity assumes wider range, transcending national and cultural boundaries.
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Susan C. Imbarrato. "Charting Early American Travel: Mobility, Mapping, and Identity." Early American Literature 43, no. 2 (2008): 467–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/eal.0.0007.

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Kesterson, David B., Alfred Weber, Beth L. Lueck, and Dennis Berthold. "Hawthorne's American Travel Sketches." South Central Review 9, no. 2 (1992): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3189534.

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Parish, Peter J. "Review: Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature, Views of American Landscapes." Literature & History 1, no. 2 (September 1992): 120–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030619739200100227.

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Cheung, Floyd. "Reclaiming Mobility: Japanese American Travel Writing after the Internment." Studies in Travel Writing 12, no. 2 (July 2008): 137–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/136451408x329743.

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Luebke, Steven R. "Looking Backward: A Thematics of Contemporary American Travel Fiction." Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 7, no. 2-3 (January 1996): 103–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10436929608580171.

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Beebee, Thomas O. "The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (review)." Comparative Literature Studies 43, no. 1 (2006): 181–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cls.2006.0023.

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Campbell, Edith. "Diversity as Evolutionary in Children’s Literature: The Blog Effect." Children and Libraries 15, no. 3 (September 28, 2017): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/cal.15.3.9.

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The call for better representation of African Americans in children’s literature can be traced back about eighty years through the works of social and literary leaders including Sterling Brown. In 1933, he wrote of the pervasiveness of stereotypes of African Americans in literature, happy slaves and the representation of African Americans in American literature.
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KHARITONOVA, NATALIA. "El viaje transatlántico de Rafael Alberti en 1935." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies: Volume 98, Issue 4 98, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 339–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2021.20.

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This article studies, from the perspective of Transatlantic Studies, literary works by Rafael Alberti along with archival documents concerning his travel to the Americas in 1935. In his poetry collection, 13 bandas y 48 estrellas. Poema del Mar Caribe and travel diary, ‘Encuentro en la Nueva España con Bernal Díaz del Castillo’, published in 1936, Alberti challenges the traditional perception of Latin American republics as former colonies. Although Alberti insists on his affiliation with the anti-imperialism of the Comintern, the article reveals an underlying conflict in the dialogue established by the Spanish poet within the American space. His writings rework components of conservative political doctrine such as Hispanoamericanismo and literary exoticism. In addition, Alberti exploits Hermann Keyserling’s conception of tellurism to shape his vision of the Americas. The article shows how the innovative message of solidarity with Latin America emerges in Alberti’s work on the basis of a complex ideological and aesthetic ground.
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Stout, Janis P., and Terry Caesar. "Forgiving the Boundaries: Home as Abroad in American Travel Writing." American Literature 68, no. 3 (September 1996): 659. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2928265.

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Fruzińska, Justyna. "Frances Wright’s America: A 19th-Century Utopia." Text Matters, no. 10 (November 24, 2020): 408–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.10.22.

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Frances Wright, a British social reformer and feminist, published an account of her American travels: Views of Society and Manners in America in 1821. Wright founded an experimental community in Nashoba, Tennessee, whose aim was to buy black slaves, educate them, and then liberate them. Even though the enterprise turned out to be a failure, the author continued to fight for the cause of black emancipation. My paper examines Wright’s portrayal of America in Views, which, compared to most other early 19th-century British travel accounts, is surprisingly enthusiastic. Wright idealizes the young republic, seeing it as a perfect embodiment of her ideals. I argue that Wright’s vision of the young republic is utopian, and it prevents her from seeing any flaws in the American system. This is especially pronounced in the case of the central problem posed by British travelogues of the era, slavery, which troubles her not so much on moral grounds, but as a blemish on the character of the country of freedom and equality.
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Catelli, Laura. "The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures, Empire, Travel, Modernity de Ralph Bauer." Revista Iberoamericana 71, no. 213 (December 27, 2005): 1239–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.2005.5537.

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Guo, Wenwen. "The Paranoia of Travel: American Tourists in Henry James’s Late Fiction." Henry James Review 41, no. 1 (2020): 24–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2020.0006.

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BROWN, MATTHEW. "Richard Vowell's Not-So-Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Adventure in Nineteenth-Century Hispanic America." Journal of Latin American Studies 38, no. 1 (February 2006): 95–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x05000301.

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Richard Vowell was a British mercenary who served in the Wars of Independence in Hispanic America. A study of his writings offers a new perspective from which to reconsider the influential arguments of the section of Mary Louise Pratt's Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London and New York, 1992) that deals with European travel in the region in the period. The analysis centres on the ways in which Vowell depicted Hispanic American masculinities, indigenous peoples, collective identities and the diverse groups that made up society during the wars of independence. Vowell's writings suggest that further sources might be read against the traditional canon of commercial travel literature generally used by historians for the period 1800–1850.
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Naramore, Sarah E. "Making Endemic Goiter an American Disease, 1800-1820." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 76, no. 3 (June 21, 2021): 239–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrab018.

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Abstract In 1800, American physician and naturalist Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) published A Memoir Concerning the Disease of Goitre as it Prevails in Different Parts of North-America. The text documented the nature of the disease in the United States and highlighted how it differed from the ailment’s presentation in European patients. While medical topographies were common during this period, Barton’s goiter research and the steady stream of American goiter research that followed are worth special attention. This body of literature demonstrates how American physicians understood their relationship to transnational medical discussions and the unique perspective they brought to them. Goiter literature was common in European medical and travel writing during this period and intensely focused on the appearance of the disease in the mountains of Switzerland and Northern Italy. American goiter by its very appearance in non-mountainous regions of the United States contradicted nearly all of the received wisdom about the ailment’s cause and potential cure. For two decades, American writers leveraged their own observations and local knowledge to challenge larger narratives in their field.
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Buzard, James. ": Going Abroad: European Travel in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. . William W. Stowe." Nineteenth-Century Literature 51, no. 1 (June 1996): 122–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.1996.51.1.99p0211u.

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Guevara, Gema R. "Geographies of Travel and the Rhetoric of the Countryside: Mid-Nineteenth-Century North American and Cuban Travel Writing." Bulletin of Spanish Studies 85, no. 1 (January 2008): 11–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14753820701791494.

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Youngs, Tim. "PUSHING AGAINST THE BLACK/WHITE LIMITS OF MAPS: AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITINGS OF TRAVEL." English Studies in Africa 53, no. 2 (October 2010): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2010.533841.

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Shi, Flair Donglai. "The Yellow Peril as a Travelling Discourse: A Comparative Study of Wang Lixiong's China Tidal Wave." Comparative Critical Studies 16, no. 1 (February 2019): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2019.0308.

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Joining recent scholarly efforts to free the study of the Yellow Peril from the conventional framework of Asian American and postcolonial studies, this paper offers a comparative analysis of the manifestations of this mutable racial discourse in twentieth-century Anglophone and Sinophone literatures. As a case in point, I focus on the Chinese dissident writer Wang Lixiong and his ‘racist’ appropriation of the Yellow Peril ideology in fin-de-siècle Anglo-American popular writings. By juxtaposing his canonical work China Tidal Wave, known in Chinese as Huang Huo (‘Yellow Peril’), with the Asian invasion fictions by Jack London and M. P. Shiel, I argue that instead of some kind of indisputable metaphysical truth, the Yellow Peril ideology manifested in these texts is merely a performative cultural practice that shifts its functions and allegiances according to the situated socio-political agenda of its practitioner. This performative nature is made explicit through my analyses of the changes of their paratexts as these texts travel across languages, leading to further reflections on theoretical concepts such as Occidentalism, the postcolonial palimpsest, Sinophone literature, and world literature.
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Talbot, Ann. "Locke's Travel Books." Locke Studies 7 (December 31, 2007): 113–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5206/ls.2007.1059.

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Peter Martyr, papal legate to the court of Spain and learned humanist, solemnly informed his readers that children were turned into frogs on one of the newly discovered Caribbean islands. Columbus thought his ship was caught in the powerful current of one of the rivers that flowed out of Eden, when he encountered the mouth of the Orinoco. Amerigo Vespucci invented an entire voyage so that he could claim priority in the discovery of the American continent. If we were to leaf through the travel books that the philosopher John Locke had on his shelves we would find these and even stranger stories of shape-shifting enchanters, lakes of gold, Amazon warrior women, societies where equality and liberty reigned and property was held in common, as well as sophisticated, well-organized societies where the educated class were all materialists and atheists. Travel literature seems a most unsuitable body of material for John Locke, the father of British empiricism, to study, but study it he did.
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Wagner, Gernot, Deddo Moertl, Anna Glechner, Verena Mayr, Irma Klerings, Casey Zachariah, Miriam Van den Nest, Gerald Gartlehner, and Birgit Willinger. "Paracoccidioidomycosis Diagnosed in Europe—A Systematic Literature Review." Journal of Fungi 7, no. 2 (February 23, 2021): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof7020157.

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Paracoccidioidomycosis is a systemic mycosis that is endemic in geographical regions of Central and South America. Cases that occur in nonendemic regions of the world are imported through migration and travel. Due to the limited number of cases in Europe, most physicians are not familiar with paracoccidioidomycosis and its close clinical and histopathological resemblance to other infectious and noninfectious disease. To increase awareness of this insidious mycosis, we conducted a systematic review to summarize the evidence on cases diagnosed and reported in Europe. We searched PubMed and Embase to identify cases of paracoccidioidomycosis diagnosed in European countries. In addition, we used Scopus for citation tracking and manually screened bibliographies of relevant articles. We conducted dual abstract and full-text screening of references yielded by our searches. To identify publications published prior to 1985, we used the previously published review by Ajello et al. Overall, we identified 83 cases of paracoccidioidomycosis diagnosed in 11 European countries, published in 68 articles. Age of patients ranged from 24 to 77 years; the majority were male. Time from leaving the endemic region and first occurrence of symptoms considerably varied. Our review illustrates the challenges of considering systemic mycosis in the differential diagnosis of people returning or immigrating to Europe from endemic areas. Travel history is important for diagnostic-workup, though it might be difficult to obtain due to possible long latency period of the disease.
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Hallock, T. "Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 260–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/14.1.260.

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Silva, Reinaldo. "The Tastes from Portugal: Food as Remembrance in Portuguese American Literature." Ethnic Studies Review 31, no. 2 (January 1, 2008): 126–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2008.31.2.126.

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Contemporary Portuguese American literature written by Thomas Braga (1943-), Frank Gaspar (1946-), and Katherine Vaz (1955-) share a profusion of topics - with ethnic food being, perhaps, the most representative one. What these writers have in common is that their roots can be traced to Portugal's Atlantic islands - the Azores - and not to continental Portugal. They are native Americans and write in English, though their characters and themes are Portuguese American. Some of them lived close to the former New England whaling and fishing centers of New Bedford and Nantucket, which Herman Melville has immortalized in Moby-Dick and in his short story, “The 'Gees,” in The Piazza Tales. These seaports were renowned worldwide and eventually attracted Azorean harpooners. The Azorean background of Thomas Braga and Frank Gaspar helps us to understand why fish and seafood feature so extensively in their writings instead of dishes containing meat as is the case in the fiction of Katherine Vaz.
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Wigginton, Caroline. "A Storied Place: Jonathan Carver’s Travel Narrative and the Indigenous Map of the Upper Mississippi River Valley." American Literature 92, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056576.

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Abstract This essay recognizes the totality of practices by which Native peoples of the upper Mississippi River valley for centuries oriented themselves to place as an Indigenous map. After limning the map and its material and nonmaterial components, I then place it at the center of a comparative Indigenous-colonizer literary analysis and argue that the manuscript of Euro-American Jonathan Carver’s 1760s travel narrative written in the region is in constitutive relationship to the map. I conclude by turning to printed versions of his narrative to consider how they extend and shape colonialist orientations to the Indigenous map. Attending to how the land has been shaped in partnership with Indigenous text making transforms American literary studies by demonstrating one way that Euro-American texts always were, are, and will be in relation to Native genres.
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Adorno, Rolena. "On Western Waters: Anglo-American Nonfictional Narrative in the Nineteenth Century." Daedalus 141, no. 1 (January 2012): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00129.

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Anglo-American westward expansion provided a major impulse to the development of the young United States' narrative tradition. Early U.S. writers also looked to the South, that is, to the Spanish New World and, in some cases, to Spain itself. Washington Irving's “A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus” (1828), the first full-length biography of the admiral in English, inaugurated the trend, and Mark Twain's “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) transformed it by focusing on the life and lives of the Mississippi River Valley and using an approach informed by Miguel de Cervantes's “Don Quijote de la Mancha.” From Irving's “discovery of America” to Twain's tribute to the disappearing era of steamboat travel and commerce on the Mississippi, the tales about “western waters,” told via their authors' varied engagements with Spanish history and literature, constitute a seldom acknowledged dimension in Anglo-America's nonfictional narrative literary history.
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Gómez, Isabel. "Brazilian Transcreation and World Literature." Journal of World Literature 1, no. 3 (2016): 316–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00103003.

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How does one translate an avant-garde classic? How might a translation mediate between experimentalism and canonicity as a work travels away from its culture of origin? This article studies Héctor Olea’s Spanish translation of Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma (1928) as one response to these questions from a Latin American translation zone. First translated for the Barcelona publishing house Seix Barral (1977), his work soon traveled back across the Atlantic to be re-edited into a critical edition for Biblioteca Ayacucho (1979). This article examines letters from the publisher’s archive to demonstrate that debates over the novel as avant-garde art, literary ethnography, or Brazilian national allegory influenced their views on translation. By including two incompatible translation approaches—transcreation and thick translation—the volume reveals an unresolved paradoxical treatment of cultural hybridity at the heart of the text.
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Hammer, Juliane. "America in an Arab Mirror." American Journal of Islam and Society 18, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v18i1.2039.

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How do Arab travelers view the US? Much has been written about how westerntravelers and scholars have seen and described the Orient, thereby not onlycreating an image but also transforming the reality of it. Looking at this anthologyone is reminded of Said's book Orienta/ism and inspired to ask whether asimilar process takes place in reverse. Not in terms of change but certainly increating an image of the unfamiliar as the other simultaneously admired andrejected.Kamal Abdel-Malek has collected and edited texts of twenty-seven Arab visitorsto the United States. Some came as students, others as accomplished scholars orcurious visitors. Each text is an excerpt of a longer text, usually a book, and allbooks were originally published in Arabic and have not been translated intoEnglish before. Also, as Abdel-Malek points out in his preface, the collectionrepresents most of the travel literature he was able to locate in Arabic and iscompleted by a list of all Arabic sources. Thus, this collection allows the readeraccess to a genre of Arabic literature otherwise not available.The travel accounts are organized in five sections and chronologically by year ofpublication within each section.The ftrst section is titled America in the Eyes of a Nineteenth-Century Amb andcontains one account of an Arab traveler to the US published in I 895. The authorpresents the reader with a comparison of what Arabs and Americans findimportant and how these preferences are diametrically opposed in most cases.In the second section Abdel-Malek has gathered a variety of accounts under thetitle The Making of an Image: America as the Unchanged Other, Ame1ica as theSeductive Female. The most interesting piece of this section is probably that ofSayyid Qutb, who studied in the US between 1948 and 1950 and published hisaccount under the title The America I have seen. Much of what he noted about theUS ln the first half of the 20th century, in my opinion, still holds true today. Qutbconcludes: "All that requires mind power and muscle are where American geniusshines, and all that requires spirit and emotion are where American naivete andprimitiveness become apparent .... All this does not mean that Americans are anation devoid of virtue, or else, what would have enabled them to live? Rather, itmeans that America's virtues are the virtues of production and organization, andnot those of human and social morals." (p. 26f.) ...
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Johnson, David E. "“Writing in the Dark”: The Political Fictions of American Travel Writing." American Literary History 7, no. 1 (1995): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/7.1.1.

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Popescu-Sandu, Oana. "Translingualism as Dialogism in Romanian-American Poetry." Journal of World Literature 3, no. 1 (February 16, 2018): 50–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00301005.

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Abstract This essay examines how translingual poetry by immigrant Romanian writers who live in or travel to the United States requires a transnational community framing rather than a national one and raises new questions about cultural and linguistic identity formation that reflect on both national and world literature issues. This analysis of the Romanian-American contemporary poets Mihaela Moscaliuc, Andrei Guruianu, Claudia Serea, and Aura Maru uses literary and rhetorical translingual theory to show that the “national literature” framing is no longer sufficient to address works created between two languages in a globalized world—Romanian and English, in this case. Born between two cultures and languages, their poetry does not belong entirely to either. In its turn, the national framing—both the Romanian and the American one—can become more porous and inclusive if read through a sociolinguistic “regime of mobility” (Blommaert) lens that gives a more powerful voice to migrant writers.
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Nesmith, Chris. "The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876, by Brian Yothers." Studies in Travel Writing 14, no. 2 (June 2010): 221–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645141003747306.

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Brøndal, Jørn. "“In a Few Years the Red Man Will Live Only in Legend and in Cooper’s Charming Accounts”: Portrayals of American Indians in Danish Travel Literature in the Mid- and Late Nineteenth Century." American Studies in Scandinavia 48, no. 2 (November 1, 2016): 83–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v48i2.5453.

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During the middle and late nineteenth century, a number of Danish travel writers visited the United States with a view to narrating about the New World to their readers back home. Four of the most prominent writers were Hans Peter Christian Hansen, Vilhelm C.S. Topsøe, Robert Watt, and Henrik Cavling. Among the many topics covered by these writers was that of American Indians. Establishing a narrative of the “vanishing Indian,” the writers endeavored to tie the Indians to a receding landscape of the past and—for the most part—to establish a contradiction between Indians and white “civilization.” Likewise displaying an interest in Scandinavian immigrants, the travel writers sometimes attempted to create links between the Indians and Scandinavian settlers. With no clear Danish interest in celebrating American exceptionalism in the shape of classical U.S. “Manifest Destiny,” the travel writers were nevertheless involved in processes of bonding with the dominant population element of the United States through their common “civilization” and whiteness.
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Pettinger, Alasdair. "African American travel narratives from abroad: mobility and cultural work in the age of Jim Crow." Studies in Travel Writing 19, no. 4 (October 2, 2015): 392–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2015.1103473.

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Gottlieb, Jean S. "Early Science at the Newberry Library: An Introduction." British Journal for the History of Science 19, no. 3 (November 1986): 323–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000708740002330x.

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The Newberry Library of Chicago is an independent history and humanities research library. Its 1.5 million printed books and 4500 linear feet of manuscripts on European and American history, English and American literature, travel and discovery in the New World, and music were, until recently, not thought to include much material on the sciences. A search of the card catalogue has already yielded over 1500 scientific titles, with the likelihood that 700–1000 more will be found, scattered among the Library's collections.
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Totten, Gary. "American Travel and Empire, edited by Susan Castillo and David Seed Writing Travel and Empire: In the Margins of Anthropology, edited by Peter Hulme and Russell McDougall." Studies in Travel Writing 15, no. 2 (June 2011): 213–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2011.565588.

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