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Fellow travelers : how road stories shaped the idea of the Americas /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | New World studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 size of domesticity 2 : 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.