{"product_id":"freedom-beyond-confinement-michael-ra-shon-hall-9781949979701","title":"Freedom Beyond Confinement: Travel and Imagination in African-American Cultural History and Letters","description":"Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination particularly of writers of literary fiction and nonfiction. Using the paradox of freedom and confinement to frame the ways travel represented both\u003cbr\u003eopportunity and restriction for African Americans, the book details the intimate connection between travel and imagination from post Reconstruction (ca. 1877) to the present. Analysing a range of sources from the black press and periodicals to literary fiction and nonfiction, the book charts the\u003cbr\u003edevelopment of critical representation of travel from the foundational press and periodicals which offered African Americans crucial information on travel precautions and possibilities (notably during the era of Jim Crow) to the woefully understudied literary fiction that would later provide some of\u003cbr\u003ethe most compelling and lasting portrayals of the freedoms and constraints African Americans associated with travel. Travel experiences (often challenging and vexed) provided the raw data with which writers produced images and ideas meaningful as they learned to navigate, negotiate and even\u003cbr\u003echallenge racialized and gendered impediments to their mobility. In their writings African Americans worked to realize a vision and state of freedom informed by those often difficult experiences of mobility. In telling this story, the book hopes to center literary fiction in studies of travel where\u003cbr\u003efiction has largely remained absent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Ra-Shon Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949979709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949979701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clemson University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.24w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Michael Ra-shon Hall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Hall's current research agenda examines the social and cultural phenomenon of travel and imagination in African-American arts, letters, and cultural history. His research and\u003cbr\u003ewriting on travel and imagination have appeared in the academic journals Postcolonial Studies and the South Carolina Review as well as the edited volumes Travel and Imagination and Motion Pictures: Travel Ideals in Film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Ra-Shon Hall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990455582975,"sku":"9781949979701","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c91ff1db-d3c9-491f-92d7-c677b0829192.jpg?v=1683304772","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/freedom-beyond-confinement-michael-ra-shon-hall-9781949979701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}