Roadscapes, a sociopoetics of the road /
How do we imagine the road? If the road inspires freewheeling adventure in the spirit of Jack Kerouac, it can also be a site of our vulnerabilities. This collection highlights the work of artists, writers and filmmakers from the Anglophone world who have drawn upon the road as a cultural landscape....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
[2023].
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| Summary: | How do we imagine the road? If the road inspires freewheeling adventure in the spirit of Jack Kerouac, it can also be a site of our vulnerabilities. This collection highlights the work of artists, writers and filmmakers from the Anglophone world who have drawn upon the road as a cultural landscape. The road reveals our sense of curiosity, our anxieties, our sorrows and our disquiet with modern technology or the power dynamics of class and gender. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 93 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1527530078 9781527530072 |