American Mobilities

Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID19902865
AuthorsJay Leyda (0000-0002-4473-0334, corresponding author), Julia Leyda
Year2016
Pages215
Publication date2016-02-17
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAmerican Mobilities (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherTranscript Verlag (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.14361/9783839434550
OpenAlexW2496602666
Open LibraryOL28357653M
ISBN9783839434550
LanguageEN
Citations received4

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

Class (philosophy) · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Mobilities · Race (biology) · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Cultural studies · Film · Human Geography · Internal Migration · Literatur · Mobilität · Popular Culture · race relations · Sex role · Social mobility