Syllabus 2019/20
Week 1: Introduction: The Road Novel in the Long Twentieth Century
Giovanni Arrighi ��잠꾈넨곶늡삣넵낌넨쓩늡꾈��� The Long Twentieth Century and this picture of his schema (1994)
Flannery O��섴onnor ��쏛 Good Man is Hard to Find��� (1953)
Suggested Secondary Reading:
Matthew Huber. ��쏰il, Life, Politics��� Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital (2013)
Karl Marx Capital (1867)
Patricia Yaeger "Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources" PMLA (2011)
Unit 1: Production
Week 2 (Please bring in an add, film clip, or other cultural artefact about 1950s road culture)
*Jack Kerouac, On the Road (Penguin, 1956)
Norman Bel Geddes. ��쏦ighways and Horizons��� Magic Motorways (1940)
Wini Breines, ��잠꾈넨곶늡삣넵낌넨쓩늡꾈��� Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up in the Fifties (1992)
Selected Secondary Reading:
Penny von Eschen Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (2006)
Leerom Medovoi Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity (2005)
Martinez, Manuel Luis Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Toma쨈s Rivera 2003.
Week 3:
*Patricia Highsmith The Price of Salt (1952)
Elaine Tyler May��잠꾈넨곶늡삣넵낌넨쓩늡꾈���Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War(1998)
Selected Secondary Reading
Week 4:
*Che Guevara Motorcycle Diaries (Perennial, 1957)
Arturo Escobar. "The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development" Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1994)
Harry Truman January 20, 1949
Selected Secondary Reading:
W.W. Rostow The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960)
Ileana Rodr챠guez Women, Guerillas, and Love: Understanding War in Central America (1006)
Mar챠a Josefina Salda챰a-Portillo ��쏰n the Road with Che Guevara and Jack Kerouac: Melancholia and Colonial Geographies of Race in the Americas��� New Formations (2002)
Molly Geidel Peace Corps Fantasies: How Development Shaped the Global Sixties (2015)
Aim챕 C챕saire Discourse of Colonialism (1950)
Unit Two: Circulation
Week 5
Stephen Spielberg Duel (1971) (film screening to be organised earlier in the week)
Midnight Notes Collective ��쏰il, Guns, and Money��� (1999)
Selected Secondary Reading:
Deb Cowen ��쏷he Revolution in Logistics��� The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade (2014)
Fredric Jameson "Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture" Social Text (1979)
Ed. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark The Road Movie Book (1997)
Timothy Mitchell Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (2011)
Week 6: Reading Break - No Class
Week 7
*Samuel Delany Dhalgren (Gateway, 1975)
James and Grace Lee Boggs ��쏷he City is the Black Man��셲 Land��� Pages From a Black Radical's Notebook (1966)
Selected Secondary Reading:
William Sites ��쏝uilding an Urban Neoliberalism: The Long Rebirth of New York��� Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community (2003)
Peter Gallison ��쏻ar Against the Center��� Grey Room (2001)
Joshua Clover. ��잠꾈넨곶늡삣넵낌넨쓩늡꾈.��� Riot Strike Riot (2016)
Raymond Mohl ��쏶top the Road: Freeway Revolts in American Cities��� Journal of Urban History (2004)
Eric Avila The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City (2014)
Week 8
*Samuel Delaney Dhalgren (Gateway, 1975)
Sara Ensor "Samuel R. Delany and the Ecology of Cruising" (2017)
Samuel Delany Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)
Rachel Carson Silent Spring (1962)
Unit 3: Collapse
Week 9
*Jessmyn Ward Sing, Unburied Sing (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Christina Sharpe ��쏷he Wake��� In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)
Sylvia Wynter ��쏯ovel and History, Plot and Plantation��� Savacou (1971)
Suggested Secondary Reading:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore Golden Gulags: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007)
Saidiya V. Hartman ��쏷he Time of Slavery��� South Atlantic Quarterly (2002)
Phil Neel Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict (2017)
Week 10
*Yuri Herrera Signs Preceding the End of the World (& Other Stories, 2015)
Mar챠a Josefina Salda챰a-Portillo "The Afterlives of Indio B찼rbaro" in Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (2015)
Suggested Secondary Reading
Lisa Marie Cacho ��쏥rafting Terror onto Illegality��� Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (2012)