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1 online resource (339 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Spatial practices. An interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography, literature
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Spatial practices ; 8.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-333) and index. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Points of Departure; 2. Contemporary American Women's Road Narratives: Genre and Gender; 3. Space, Gender, Mobility; 4. Questers on the Road; 5. Para-Nomadic Travelers; 6. Ex-centric & Wayward: Picaras of the Late 20th Century; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Travel in literature.
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Travel in literature. |
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Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
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Travelers' writings, American. |
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Women travelers -- United States.
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Women travelers. |
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United States. |
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Women travelers in literature.
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Women travelers in literature. |
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Travel writing -- History.
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Travel writing. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ganser, Alexandra. Roads of her own. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009 9789042025523 9042025522 (OCoLC)316329035 |
| ISBN |
9781441606440 (electronic book) |
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1441606440 (electronic book) |
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9789042029149 |
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9042029145 |
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9789042025523 (hardback) |
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9042025522 (hardback) |
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