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Life Writing: Autobiography, Biography, and Travel Writing in Contemporary Literature (review)

Life Writing: Autobiography, Biography, and Travel Writing in Contemporary Literature (review) Reviews 475 the need to offer a voice of critique in relation to her country. As she emigrat- ed to Canada to fi nd a more tolerant society, she published A Plea for Emigra- tion (1852) and then turned to her own newspaper to publish the travel writ- ing of an emigrant. As Steadman demonstrates, however, the rhetoric of this politically oriented travel writing relied on discourses of uplift and feminin- ity to evoke her critique. Thus the nation was envisioned as a dysfunctional family from which separation is necessary for survival. Astutely, Shadd mani- fests travel to Canada as an opportunity for reunifi cation, for establishing a community of transplanted Blacks who will dispel the racist family discord of the United States for the uplift of a newly formulated society in Canada. Steadman argues convincingly that Shadd’s “focus on community-building and survival constitutes a unique revision of the travel genre . . . to promote emigration and to protect emigrants who have already arrived” (107–108). “Uplift” in this sense avoids the hierarchical nature of upward mobility in fa- vor of localism, and Shadd’s travel to numerous settlements offers the model of protectionism necessary to survival for Black emigrants. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biography University of Hawai'I Press

Life Writing: Autobiography, Biography, and Travel Writing in Contemporary Literature (review)

Biography , Volume 31 (3) – Nov 21, 2008

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University of Hawai'I Press
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Copyright © 2008 Biographical Research Center.
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0162-4962
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Abstract

Reviews 475 the need to offer a voice of critique in relation to her country. As she emigrat- ed to Canada to fi nd a more tolerant society, she published A Plea for Emigra- tion (1852) and then turned to her own newspaper to publish the travel writ- ing of an emigrant. As Steadman demonstrates, however, the rhetoric of this politically oriented travel writing relied on discourses of uplift and feminin- ity to evoke her critique. Thus the nation was envisioned as a dysfunctional family from which separation is necessary for survival. Astutely, Shadd mani- fests travel to Canada as an opportunity for reunifi cation, for establishing a community of transplanted Blacks who will dispel the racist family discord of the United States for the uplift of a newly formulated society in Canada. Steadman argues convincingly that Shadd’s “focus on community-building and survival constitutes a unique revision of the travel genre . . . to promote emigration and to protect emigrants who have already arrived” (107–108). “Uplift” in this sense avoids the hierarchical nature of upward mobility in fa- vor of localism, and Shadd’s travel to numerous settlements offers the model of protectionism necessary to survival for Black emigrants.

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BiographyUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Nov 21, 2008

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