Sandra Gunning on Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic

Conversations in Atlantic Theory

This discussion is with Professor Sandra Gunning, Dr. Gunning is a literary scholar working jointly in the Department of American Culture, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently she’s at work on an alternate Black literary history of the American Civil War. In today’s conversation, we discuss Dr. Gunning’s Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic where she examines 19th century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic.