Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178734 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Fiona Moolla (0000-0001-7809-2222) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 380-390 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2012.759128 |
| OpenAlex | W2075947640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century \ntravelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the \n21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It examines the mutually constitutive \nrelationship between conceptions of literal territorial boundaries and the figurative \nboundaries of the subject that ventures across borders in Africa. The border is seen as \na liminal zone which paradoxically separates and joins spaces. Accounts of border \ncrossings in travel writing from different periods suggest the historicity and cultural \nspecificity of conceptions of geographical borders, and the way they index the “boundaries” \nof the subjects who cross them. Tracing the transformations in these conceptions \nof literal and metaphorical borders allows one to chart the emergence of the dominant \ncontemporary idea of “Africa” as the inscrutable, savage continent
Art · Historicity (philosophy · Liminality · Linguistics · Literal (mathematical logic · Literal and figurative language · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Philippine History and Culture · Travel Writing and Literature · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |