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Travel, humanitarianism, and becoming American in Africa

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Travel, humanitarianism, and becoming American in AfricaKathryn Mathers.
Author:	Mathers, Kathryn Frances.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 223 p.)
Subject:	AmericansTravelAfrica.
Subject:	United States
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230115583 (electronic bk.)

Travel, humanitarianism, and becoming American in Africa
Mathers, Kathryn Frances.

Travel, humanitarianism, and becoming American in Africa[electronic resource] /Kathryn Mathers. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 223 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Moving Fieldwork: Traveling with Americans to and from Africa -- Vexed Ties: Africa in an out of America -- Back to Nature: American's Great African Adventure -- Through the Glass: Encountering the Unexpected in Africa -- Disrupting the Hyphen: Identity and Belonging in America -- "How do they know I am American?" Travel and the Discovery of Home -- Suffering Beauty: How to Save Africa without Changing It -- Conclusion: Saving Africa: Love in the Time of Oprah.

Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so important to Americans? These travel stories show how encounters with Africans lead to a problematic desire to save Africa. Kathryn Mathers argues that this is then seen as a way to resolve the tensions between aspirations for a globally responsible America and the current reality of its geopolitical role. This book draws fascinating new conclusions about the connections and disconnections on which contemporary American identity is formed.

ISBN: 9780230115583 (electronic bk.)

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LC Class. No.: DT38.1 / .M36 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 303.48/26073

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