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American mobilities : geographies of class, race, and gender in US culture
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American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis o...
American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic, " referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the "American" century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films with Classical Hollywood, Leyda brings the analytic tools of American cultural and literary studies to bear on an eclectic array of primary texts as she builds a case for the significance of mobility in the study of the United States.--
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- Creator
- Julia Leyda
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- English
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- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016]
- ©2016
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- 1 online resource
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- 3839434556, 3837634558, 9783837634556, 9783839434550
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- ocn936962932, ocn946547136, ocn941729827
- A published record of the author's doctoral research, completed at the University of Washington between 1995 and 1998, and then substantially revised over subsequent years.
- Title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on September 30, 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English.
- Reading white trash : class, race, and mobility in Faulkner and Le Sueur -- Incorporation and embodiment : gender, race, and space in Hurst and Himes -- Who's got the car keys? : geographic, economic, and social mobility in the magic kingdom of Los Angeles -- Black-audience westerns : race, nation, and mobility in the 1930s -- Space, class, city : imagined geographies of Maud Martha -- Home on the range : space, nation, and mobility in The searchers
Subjects
- Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
- American literature -- Social aspects -- 20th century.
- Social mobility -- United States.
- Human geography -- United States.
- Sex role -- United States.
- Popular culture -- United States.
- United States -- Race relations.