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Roads of Her Own : Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women's Road Narratives, 1970-2000 /

Reading Jack Kerouac's classic On the Road through Virginia Woolf's canonical A Room of One's Own, the author of this book examines a genre in North American literature which, despite its popularity, has received little attention in literary and cultural criticism: women's road n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ganser, Alexandra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Spatial practices ; 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Reading Jack Kerouac's classic On the Road through Virginia Woolf's canonical A Room of One's Own, the author of this book examines a genre in North American literature which, despite its popularity, has received little attention in literary and cultural criticism: women's road narratives. The study shows how women's literature has inscribed itself into the American discourse of the Whitmanesque "open road", or, more generally, the "freedom of the road". Women writers have participated in this powerful American myth, yet at the same time also have rejected that myth as fundamentally based on.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (339 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-333) and index.
ISBN:9781441606440
1441606440
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