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Fellow travelers : how road stories shaped the idea of the Americas
Title
Fellow travelers : how road stories shaped the idea of the Americas / John Ochoa.
ISBN
9780813946078
0813946077
9780813946085
0813946085
9780813946092
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
xiii, 159 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Ochoa, John A. (John Andres), 1967- Fellow travelers Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 28, 2021
Series
New World studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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