Syllabus 2019/20
Week 1: Introduction: The Road Novel in the Long Twentieth Century
Giovanni Arrighi 鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍鈥� The Long Twentieth Century and this picture of his schema (1994)
Flannery O鈥機onnor 鈥淎 Good Man is Hard to Find鈥� (1953)
Suggested Secondary Reading:
Matthew Huber. 鈥淥il, Life, Politics鈥� 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. 鈥淗ighways and Horizons鈥� Magic Motorways (1940)
Wini Breines, 鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍鈥� 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 Toma麓s Rivera 2003.
Week 3:
*Patricia Highsmith The Price of Salt (1952)
Elaine Tyler May鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍鈥�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 Rodr铆guez Women, Guerillas, and Love: Understanding War in Central America (1006)
Mar铆a Josefina Salda帽a-Portillo 鈥淥n the Road with Che Guevara and Jack Kerouac: Melancholia and Colonial Geographies of Race in the Americas鈥� New Formations (2002)
Molly Geidel Peace Corps Fantasies: How Development Shaped the Global Sixties (2015)
Aim茅 C茅saire 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 鈥淥il, Guns, and Money鈥� (1999)
Selected Secondary Reading:
Deb Cowen 鈥淭he Revolution in Logistics鈥� 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 鈥淭he City is the Black Man鈥檚 Land鈥� Pages From a Black Radical's Notebook (1966)
Selected Secondary Reading:
William Sites 鈥淏uilding an Urban Neoliberalism: The Long Rebirth of New York鈥� Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community (2003)
Peter Gallison 鈥淲ar Against the Center鈥� Grey Room (2001)
Joshua Clover. 鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍.鈥� Riot Strike Riot (2016)
Raymond Mohl 鈥淪top the Road: Freeway Revolts in American Cities鈥� 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 鈥淭he Wake鈥� In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)
Sylvia Wynter 鈥淣ovel and History, Plot and Plantation鈥� Savacou (1971)
Suggested Secondary Reading:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore Golden Gulags: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007)
Saidiya V. Hartman 鈥淭he Time of Slavery鈥� 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)
Mar铆a Josefina Salda帽a-Portillo "The Afterlives of Indio B谩rbaro" in Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (2015)
Suggested Secondary Reading
Lisa Marie Cacho 鈥淕rafting Terror onto Illegality鈥� Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (2012)