Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux

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dc.contributor.authorMoolla, Fiona F.
dc.date.accessioned08/05/2013 14:43
dc.date.available08/05/2013 14:43
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century travelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the 21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It examines the mutually constitutive relationship between conceptions of literal territorial boundaries and the figurative boundaries of the subject that ventures across borders in Africa. The border is seen as a liminal zone which paradoxically separates and joins spaces. Accounts of border crossings in travel writing from different periods suggest the historicity and cultural specificity of conceptions of geographical borders, and the way they index the �boundaries� of the subjects who cross them. Tracing the transformations in these conceptions of literal and metaphorical borders allows one to chart the emergence of the dominant contemporary idea of �Africa� as the inscrutable, savage continent.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMoolla, F.F. (2013). Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux. Journal of Postcolonial Writing http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2012.759128en_US
dc.identifier.issn1744-9863
dc.identifier.issn1744-9855
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/605
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author's final draft following peer review. It may be displayed and circulated, subject to full acknowledgement of author and source. The published item is copyright Taylor & Francis.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2012.759128
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectTravel narrativeen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectBorder crossingsen_US
dc.subjectAutobiographyen_US
dc.subjectRites of passageen_US
dc.subjectThe selfen_US
dc.titleBorder crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Therouxen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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