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Date: 	Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:59:58 -1000
From: Cynthia A Ward <cward-AT-hawaii.edu>
Subject: Immigrant/Emecheta: Discussion or not?


Why is it that, quite often when people ask general questions whose 
answers would interest me they request private replies? Most recently 
"Buchi Emecheta Anyone?" and "Immigrant Travelogues about Britain" have 
frustrated me this way. I am not alone--I noticed that many others 
requested to read the responses to the Emecheta inquiry. This is a 
discussion list, isn't it? Can't we keep it public?

Cynthia Ward
Honolulu HI

P.S. Public reply to Tobias on Immigrant Travelogues: try Ham Mukasa, 
_Sir Apolo Kagwa Discovers Britain_ (Heinemann)

 On Tue, 16 Jan 1996 
tdoering-AT-zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:

> I am looking for travel narratives by authors from Africa, Asia, Canada, 
> Australia, New Zealand or the Caribbean who describe their experience as 
> travellers in the "Mothercountry" Britain. 
> 
> The context for this question is a larger research project about the ways in 
> which Britain has been discursively mapped by a long tradition of travel 
> writing. I am interested in the ways in which colonial and postcolonial 
> travellers might construct a specifically different view of the country. What 
> texts can I draw on? The one criterion is that the texts should be 
> non-fictional, i.e. should not use the form of a novel (this is why Naipaul's 
> Enigma of Arrival does not really qualify). 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions? I would appreciate if you contact me 
> privately at: tdoering-AT-fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de
> 
> Thanks a lot, Tobias
> 
> 
> 
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