| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 159 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
New World studies |
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New World studies.
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| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 23, 2021) |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Travelers' writings -- History and criticism
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Travel writing -- History -- 20th century
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Travel in literature.
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Male friendship in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
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Fiction.
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Literature.
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Male friendship in literature.
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Travel in literature.
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Travel writing.
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Travelers' writings.
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| SUBJECT |
America -- Literatures -- History and criticism
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| Subject |
America.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020058649 |
| ISBN |
9780813946092 |
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0813946093 |
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