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American mobilities : geographies of class, race, and gender in US culture
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American mobilities : geographies of class, race, and gender in US culture / Julia Leyda.
ISBN
9783839434550
3839434556
9783837634556
3837634558
Publication
Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
1 online resource
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A published record of the author's doctoral research, completed at the University of Washington between 1995 and 1998, and then substantially revised over subsequent years.
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English.
Summary
American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic, " referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the "American" century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films with Classical Hollywood, Leyda brings the analytic tools of American cultural and literary studies to bear on an eclectic array of primary texts as she builds a case for the significance of mobility in the study of the United States.-- Provided by publisher
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Print version: Leyda, Julia. American mobilities : geographies of class, race, and gender in US culture. Bielefeld, [Germany] : transcript, ©2016 American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Volume 14
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2022
Series
American culture studies ; volume 14
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Reading white trash : class, race, and mobility in Faulkner and Le Sueur
Incorporation and embodiment : gender, race, and space in Hurst and Himes
Who's got the car keys? : geographic, economic, and social mobility in the magic kingdom of Los Angeles
Black-audience westerns : race, nation, and mobility in the 1930s
Space, class, city : imagined geographies of Maud Martha
Home on the range : space, nation, and mobility in The searchers.
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