Fellow Travelers: How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas Ochoa John
Fellow Travelers: How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas Ochoa John Road trips loom large in the American imagination, and stories from the road have been central to crafting national…
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Fellow Travelers: How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas Ochoa John
Road trips loom large in the American imagination, and stories from the road have been central to crafting national identities across North and South America. Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas--the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the frontier, and the Cold War--John Ochoa pursues literary travelers across landscapes and centuries. Tales of traversing this vast geography, with its singular landscape, have helped foster a sense of American exceptionalism.
Travel accounts from these periods offered master narratives that shaped the notion of America's postimperial future.Fellow Travelers recounts the complex, on-the-road relationships between travelers such as Lewis and Clark, Alexander von At each historical crossroads, the nations of North and South invented or reinvented themselves in the shadow of empire.