Editor(s): Siegel, Kristi. Series: Travel Writing Across the Disciplines: Theory and Pedagogy. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314. . 2004. New. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories: v. 9 (Travel Writing Across the Disciplines: Theory and Pedagogy)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0820470872
ISBN 13: 9780820470870
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women’s Road Stories explores the road narratives of women and the various ways their work re-maps American space. Moving from Mary Rowlandson’s famous captivity narrative to the frontier texts of the American West to the postapocalyptic novels of postmodern experience, Fast Cars and Bad Girls interrogates the intersections of nomadic theory and contemporary feminism. What would happen, the text queries the reader, if Jack Kerouac had gone on the road with a baby in the back seat? Women’s road texts are different, insists author Deborah Paes de Barros; notions such as resistance to the West, the revision of the natural world, mother-daughter relationships, avant-garde angst, and feminist utopias construct this discussion of women travel writers.

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The Author: Deborah Paes de Barros received her Ph.D. in American literature from the University of California, Riverside. Her publications include essays on contemporary literature and postmodernism. Dr. Paes de Barros is currently Associate Professor of English at Palomar College in San Marcos, California.

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