Fellow travelers how road stories shaped the idea of the Americas
To the reader : an outstretched hand -- Introduction: Together, through the backcountry -- Fools of empire : a morning constitutional, or blind eyewitnesses in the early republics (H.H. Brackenridge's Modern chivalry and Alonso Carrió de la Vandera's A guide for blind travelers) -- Dying p...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Charlottesville
University of Virginia Press
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | New World studies
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | To the reader : an outstretched hand -- Introduction: Together, through the backcountry -- Fools of empire : a morning constitutional, or blind eyewitnesses in the early republics (H.H. Brackenridge's Modern chivalry and Alonso Carrió de la Vandera's A guide for blind travelers) -- Dying pastoral : the power of homology and other disappearances into the open range of Martín Fierro and The searchers (and Brokeback Mountain) -- The size of domesticity : traveling companions flee from Cold War "containment" in On the road and The motorcycle diaries -- The subversive vermin and the teacher : Subcomandante Marcos's on-the-run dispatches repurpose Cold War anxiety -- Doesn't he ever learn? Denis Johnson's Jesus' son and the weight of knowledge, or a second chance for a lonely Pícaro. "Fellow Travelers examines accounts of pairs of men who travel together from three historical crossroads in the Americas: the "new dawn" at the end of the colonial period; the period of expansion into the frontier; and "containment" during the Cold War. During each of these times, the nations of North and South were either inventing or reinventing themselves in the shadow of empire, and during these times, travel accounts describing "what is out there" provided road maps for these reinventions"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | pages cm |
| ISBN: | 9780813946078 978-0-8139-4607-8 9780813946085 978-0-8139-4608-5 9780813946092 |