American Road Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Road Narratives write by Ann Brigham. This book was released on 2015-06-29. American Road Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The freedom to go anywhere and become anyone has profoundly shaped our national psyche. Transforming our sense of place and identity--whether in terms of social and economic status, or race and ethnicity, or gender and sexuality—American mobility is perhaps nowhere more vividly captured than in the image of the open road. From pioneer trails to the latest car commercial, the road looms large as a form of expansiveness and opportunity. Too often it is the celebratory idea of the road as a free-floating zone moving the traveler beyond the typical concerns of space and time that dominates the discussion. Rather than thinking of mobility as an escape from cultural tensions, however, Ann Brigham proposes that we understand mobility as a mode of engagement with them. She explores the genre of road narratives to show how mobility both thrives on and attempts to manage shifting conflicts about space and society in the United States. From the earliest transcontinental automobile narratives from the 1910s, through classics like Jack Kerouac's On the Road and the film Thelma & Louise, up to post-9/11 narratives, Brigham traces the ways in which mobility has been imagined, created, and interrogated over the past century and shows how mobility promises, and threatens, to incorporate the outsider and to blur boundaries. Bringing together textual and cultural analysis, theories of spatiality, and sociohistorical frameworks, this book offers an invigoratingly different view of mobility and a new understanding of the road narrative’s importance in American culture. Choice Outstanding Academic Title from American Library Association
American Road Literature
American Road Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Road Literature write by Ronald Primeau. This book was released on 2013. American Road Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the prominent themes and stories of the American road narrative, beginning with the westward thrust of early America's seaboard colonies to the romanticized and philosophical road narratives of the Beat Generation, the American experience--its ideals, dreams, and subsequent disillusionments--has been quintessentially linked to the road.
Romance of the Road
Romance of the Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romance of the Road write by Ronald Primeau. This book was released on 1996. Romance of the Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Americans have treated the highway as sacred space," says Primeau (English, Central Michigan U.) introducing the rich tradition of prose and non-fiction road narratives that include On the Road, Grapes of Wrath, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and the Journals of Lewis and Clark. Primeau critically examines these and other works from the position of travel as pilgrimage resulting in identifiable themes of protest, self discovery, picaresque parody, and myth making. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
American Road
American Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Road write by Pete Davies. This book was released on 2003-05. American Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Davies recounts these treacherous travels in a brisk and readable style . . . he has put history, sociology, politics, and human nature into well-tuned balance. The Boston Globe
The American Dream?
The American Dream? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Dream? write by Shing Yin Khor. This book was released on 2019-08-06. The American Dream? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what “America” meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is Shing’s attempt to find what she can of both of these Americas on a solo journey (small adventure-dog included) across the entire expanse of that iconic road, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. And what begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting, forever out of place.
