Bloomsbury Handbook to Multiethnic American Travel Writing

Gary Totten is Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, and the editor-in-chief of the journal MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States. He has published numerous books and essays on late 19th- and 20th-century US literature, travel writing, and multiethnic US literature. His most recent books include Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel (2026) and A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States (2024).

• AcknowledgementsList of Contributors Introduction: Multiethnic American Travel WritingGary Totten, (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)Section One: Origins, Migrations, and Returns1. Roots, Routes, and Returns: African American Travel to AfricaIsabel Kalous (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany)2. Genre, Identity, and Asian American Narratives of ReturnSiddharth Srikanth (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)3. Memories of the Fusgeyer Movement in Twenty-First-Century North American Travel BooksDana Mihailescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)4. Decolonizing Travel Writing: Kazim Ali’s Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of WaterZhou Xiaojing (University of the Pacific, USA)5. Building Home: African American Travel WritingTim Youngs, Nottingham Trent University, UK (professor emeritus)Section Two: Travel and Genre6. Return to Cigar CityJarret Keene (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)7. Drawn Passages: Multiethnic American Graphic Travel Narratives and the Racialized Geography of MovementChristopher González (Southern Methodist University, USA)8. Contemporary Adventure Travel: American Multiethnic Adrenaline NarrativesKristin J. Jacobson (Stockton University, USA)9. Genre, Tourism, and Asian American Travel WritingLucas Tromly (University of Manitoba, Canada)10. Fact or Fiction?: (Re)Defining the Study of (African American and Black Atlantic) Travel WritingMichael Ra-shon Hall (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)11. Defying Diasporas: Contemporary African American Poetry’s Influential JourneysLaura Vrana (University of South Alabama, USA)12. Charting a Course for Black-Authored Aviation-Based Travel Writing in the United StatesSara Hillin (Lamar University, USA)Section Three: Transatlantic and Hemispheric Mobilities13. Italian American Travel Narratives: The Long Durée Mary Jo Bona (Stony Brook University, USA)14. Frank O’ Connor’s “Ireland” and the Pastoral Trope of Irish American Travel WritingJames Byrne (Wheaton College, USA)15. Remapping Nineteenth-Century Latin America through Women’s Travel NarrativesVanesa Miseres (University of Notre Dame, USA)16. From South to South: Exoticism and Cosmopolitan Identity in Twentieth-Century Mexican Travel Writing Miguel A. Cabañas (Michigan State University, USA)17. Meera Subramanian’s Travels in Elemental IndiaJeanne Dubino (Appalachian State University, USA)Section Four: Precarious Mobilities18. Travel Writing and Refugee FictionClaudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State University, USA)19. Narrative Lapsus and Nineteenth-Century Black Travail WritingMichael A. Chaney (Dartmouth College, USA)20. “I Have Never . . . ‘Progressed’ that Far”: Luther Standing Bear and the Limits of (Progressive) Mobility during the Boarding School EraCristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)21. Revisiting the Slave Narrative Travelogue: Douglass, Brown, Jacobs, and Delany, with Help from Pope.LWilliam Merrill Decker (Oklahoma State University, USA)22. Geographies of Division in John A. Williams’s This is My Country TooAndrew Vogel (Kutztown University, USA)