Black Travelogues as Counter Narratives to Colonial-Ethnographic Travel Writing
The INPUTS and the AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE project would kindly like to invite you to a talk by Jenaba Samura (ZfL Berlin) on “Adventures in Afropea: Black Travelogues as Counter Narratives to Colonial-Ethnographic Travel Writing”. The event will take place on July 3, 2025, 18.15-19.45 (UTC+2), in room GW2B3010.
To participate online, please write an email to: afroeuropecyberspace@uni-bremen.de
In her talk, doctoral candidate Jenaba explores how contemporary Black travel narratives about Europe serve as a literary counter-narrative to ethnographic 19th century travel accounts by European writers. Using Johnny Pitts’ Afropean. Notes from Black Europe (2019) and its precursor The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips (1986), she examines how these texts deconstruct the colonial “white gaze” and develop narrative strategies to reimagine Europe as a hybrid, Afropean space.
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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
editapela (16 juin 2025). Adventures in Afropea. Carnets de littératures africaines. Consulté le 14 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/144s3