Congo solo : misadventures two degrees north

ISBN: 9780773539044 (sc.)
ISBN: 9780773539044 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0773539042 (sc.)
ISBN: 0773539042
Physical Description: print p. ; cm.
Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.

Hahn, Emily 1905-1997 (Author). Cuthbertson, Ken. (Added Author).

Summary: Emily Hahn was one of the most prolific and enduring writers at the New Yorker - her first byline appeared there in 1926, her last in 1996. Had her 1933 travel memoir, Congo Solo, not been published in a censored version during the darkest days of the Great Depression, it might well have been hailed as a classic of the genre. Hahn was an unknown and struggling writer when Congo Solo was first published. Here - restored to the form she had intended - is Hahn's unforgettable first-hand account of the racism, brutality, sexism, and exploitation that were everyday realities under Belgium's iron-fisted colonial rule. Until now, the few copies of Congo Solo in circulation were the adulterated version, altered by the author under pressure from her publisher and threats of litigation. This edition makes available a lost treasure of women's travel writing that sheds valuable light on the gender and race politics of the period.