[Inter]sections 27 (2024)

This special issue on “Mobility and American (Non)Fiction” was co-edited by José Duarte (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon) and Mihaela Precup (American Studies Program, University of Bucharest).

MOBILITY AND AMERICAN (NON)FICTION

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Elena Furlanetto. Across Rivers and Selves: Mobile Identities in 19th-Century American Literature of Enslavement and Escape

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Cameron Williams Crawford. Mobility and Identity in Ladee Hubbard’s The Talented Ribkins

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Catarina Moura. Transnationality and Incorporation in the American Road: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019)

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Teresa Pereira. “Jus’ hol’ yuh breath an’ kick”:  Queer Self-Made Womanhood in Nicole Dennis-Benn’s “Swimmer”

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Alice CarlettoWilliam Least Heat-Moon’s American Travels: Representing Spaces through the American Road Narrative

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Lara Bulger. Controlling Migration: How Martha of the North and Exile Reclaim Inuit Sovereignty

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Karine Bertrand and Claire Gray. Moving out of the Background: Québec Women Filmmakers and the American Roads

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Filipa Rosário. “Flowing Perpetually Outward”: Quest and Journey in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998)

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