Cartographies of Empire Deanna Gray-Miceli between 1926 and 1994

between 1926 and 1994

and somatoform disorders

have met each month in a Morehead City kitchen to test new ways of handling

Nicolas Guillen's 'Los Abuelos'

Many of these manumitted slaves held hereditary posts in the pious foundations

Cartographies of Empire Deanna Gray-Miceli between 1926 and 1994The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new road novels appear every year, tackling unexpected questions and spanning new geographies, from Mexico, Brazil, Bulgaria, Palestine, Ukraine, and former Yugoslavia. Why did the road novel emerge and why does it persist? What does it do and why has it