American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film

by Ann Brigham

Book Overview

The freedom to go anywhere and become anyone has profoundly shaped our national psyche. Transforming our sense of place and identity--whether in terms of social and economic status, or race and ethnicity, or gender and sexuality--American mobility is perhaps nowhere more vividly captured than in the image of the open road. From pioneer trails to the latest car commercial, the road looms large as a form of expansiveness and opportunity. Too often it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813937507
• ISBN13: 9780813937502
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"