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194 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Smith, Amanda. An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord s Dealings with the Colored Evangelist Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an Independent Missionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Williams, Samuel. Four Years in Liberia: A Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Samuel Williams; with Remarks on the Missions, Manners, and Customs of the Natives of Western Africa. New York: Arno, 1969. CRITICAL WORKS Adler, Judith. Travel as Performed Art. American Journal of Sociology 94 (1989): 1366 91. Andrews, William L. To Tell A Free Story: The First Century of Afro- American Autobiography, 1760 1865. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Baker, Houston. The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Blassingame, John. Black New Orleans, 1860 1880. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Brown, Sharon Rogers. American Travel Narratives as a Literary Genre from 1542 to 1832. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1993. Brucolli, Matthew J. The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800 1870: The Papers of William Charvat. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968. Caesar, Terry. Forgiving the Boundaries: Home as Abroad in American Travel Writing. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Clifford, James. Traveling Cultures. In Cultural Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler. New York: Routledge, 1992. Elder, Arlene A. The Hindered Hand : Cultural Implications of Early African-American Fiction. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. Fish, Cheryl. Voices of Restless (Dis)Continuity. Women s Studies 26 (1997): 475 95.
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