The Wanderer in African American Literature

The Wanderer in African American Literature highlights an enduring feature of African American letters: “From the slave narrative to Afrofuturism, the literature is populated, driven, and emboldened by wanderers who know no bounds.” Gena E. Chandler argues that wanderers and the theme of wandering push the limits of narrative forms and challenge assumptions about the African American experience.

The slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs echo eighteenth-and nineteenth-centu...