An Américain in Africa: The Transatlantic Creations of Paul Belloni du Chaillu
<p>The most popular American writer the year the Civil War began was not, perhaps, American. A nation on the verge of splitting asunder enthusiastically consumed stories of its national identity being consolidated in Africa in a book by Paul Belloni du Chaillu, a young man of ambiguous origins...
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2011-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Transnational American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sw9q92r |