Fast cars and bad girls
Subtitle: nomadic subjects and women's road stories
By: Deborah Paes de Barros.
Series: Travel writing across the disciplines ;; v. 9
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Frontier and pioneer life in literature.; Women and literature -- United States.; Automobile travel in literature.; Women travelers in literature.; Women pioneers in literature.; Travel in literature.
Description: "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 post modern experience, Fast Cars and Bad Girls interrogates the intersections of nomadic theory and contemporary feminism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-203) and index.