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Ochoa John |
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Fellow travelers : how road stories shaped the idea of the Americas / / John Ochoa |
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Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (179 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Travelers' writings - History and criticism |
Travel writing - History - 20th century |
America Literatures History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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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. |
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"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"-- |
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