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Travel and Literature II

Session 5 - Sunday 8:00-9:30am
Henry Hall 225
Presiding Officer: 
Carlton Floyd
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Metta Sama
  1. Where the Huck is Finn? The Hunt for Huckleberry Finn in Hannibal. Dustin Zima, Elmira College

    The Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri clings to the romanticized notion that it is “America’s Hometown.” It has created for itself an extremely profitable tourism business that is, at its root, a disturbingly distorted and completely false representation of Twain’s characters, texts, and boyhood hometown.

  2. In Search of Blackness in the Americas. Hassan Dhouti, Independent Scholar

    “In Search of Blackness in the Americas” covers an on-going personal project of traveling the Americas as an exploration of the multiple manifestations of blackness across Luso and Spanish-speaking America’s multiple cultural, national and linguistic traditions.

  3. Travel Literature, Slavery and Colonisation, and William Blake’s Competing Modes of Perception. Cato Marks, Open University; Middlesex University

    In "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" Blake critiques travel narratives that justified slavery and colonisation by undermining the gaze of the colonial writer. Instead, Blake offers a competing vision depicting the horrors of European expansion and exploitation.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed