Black and white women's travel narratives : antebellum explorations / Cheryl J. Fish.

Contents Introduction. Mobile subjectivity, embodied labor -- Journeys and warnings : Nancy Prince's resistant truth telling in New England, Russia, and Jamaica -- Traveling medicine chest : Mary Seacole "plays doctor" at colonial crossroads in Panama and the Crimea -- Encountering hybridity : Margaret Fuller and America in transition -- Coda. Lighting out for other territories : journeys across cultures, genres, and canons.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-174) and index.
LCCN 2003065749
ISBN081302711X (cloth : alk. paper)