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Fellow Travelers: Contents

Fellow Travelers

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Contents

To the Reader: An Outstretched Hand

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Together, through the Backcountry

1. Fools of Empire: A Morning Constitutional, or Blind Eyewitnesses in the Early Republics (H. H. Brackenridge’s Modern Chivalry and Alonso Carrió de la Vandera’s A Guide for Blind Travelers)

2. Dying Pastoral: The Power of Homology and Other Disappearances into the Open Range of Martín Fierro and The Searchers (and “Brokeback Mountain”)

3. The Size of Domesticity 1: Traveling Companions Flee from Cold War “Containment” in On the Road and The Motorcycle Diaries

4. The Size of Domesticity 2: Subcomandante Marcos’s On-the-Run Dispatches Repurpose Cold War Anxiety

5. Doesn’t He Ever Learn? Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son and the Weight of Knowledge, or a Second Chance for a Lonely Picaro

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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