Office: HGH 210; phone: (408) 924-5378
Email: wooda@email.sjsu.edu
Web: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda
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Dr. Andrew Wood Office: HGH 210; phone: (408) 924-5378 Email: wooda@email.sjsu.edu Web: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda |
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Movement and national identity: Automobility and time
Reading:
Belasco (chapters 1-2)
Supplemental Reading: Belasco (chapter 3)
Supplemental Reading: Belasco (chapter 4)
Supplemental Reading: Belasco (chapter 5)
Supplemental Reading: Belasco (chapter 6)
We begin our exploration of twentieth century mobility and the search for Arcadia. In particular, we examine the role of automobility in the formation of the early-century gypsy myth - a response to the dominance of the locomotive and the abstraction of labor. Ironically, this motorized nostalgia serves mainly to affirm, rather than deny, dominant values of public life.