1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990006109640203316

Titolo

Antologia degli spirituals / [a cura di Elena Clementelli e Walter Mauro]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Tascabili Bompiani, 1977

Descrizione fisica

XIX, 175 p. ; 19 cm

Disciplina

398.8

Collocazione

XV.9.M. 2248

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795247503321

Autore

Ochoa John

Titolo

Fellow travelers : how road stories shaped the idea of the Americas / / John Ochoa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-8139-4609-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 pages)

Collana

New World Studies

Disciplina

809.304

Soggetti

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Travelers' writings - History and criticism

Travel writing - History - 20th century

America Literatures History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- To the Reader: An Outstretched Hand -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Fools of Empire -- 2. Dying Pastoral -- 3. The Size of Domesticity 1 -- 4. The Size of Domesticity 2 -- 5. Doesn't He Ever Learn -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

"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"--