gendered space and mobility in American women's road narratives, 1970-2000
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ganser, Alexandra
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2009
- Thesaurus
- reisliteratuur, reizigers, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Reading Jack Kerouac's 'On the road' through Virginia Woolf's 'A room of one's own', the author examines women's road narratives. The study shows how women's literature has inscribed itself into the American discourse of the 'freedom of the road'. Women writers have participated in this myth, yet at the same time also have rejected it as fundamentally based on gendered and racial/ethnic hierarchies and power structures. The book analyzes stories about female runaways, outlaws, adventurers, kidnaps, biker chicks and travelling saleswomen and makes theoretical observations on the debates regarding discourses of spatiality and mobility.