Getting Nowhere. Going Home. Edward Abbey's Quest for Shelter
Getting Nowhere. Going Home. Edward Abbey's Quest for Shelter
Author(s): Agnieszka KaczmarekSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: Edward Abbey; home; place; birthplace; American West; landscape
Summary/Abstract: With a focus on selected writings by Edward Abbey, the article discusses the places which the travel writer designates as home. Showing how Abbey mythologizes his birthplace and how he sentimentalizes his boyhood nest, it also analyzes the fragments in which the author employs the word home with reference to various locations the self-described desert rat defines his home, which are not necessarily the spots in his cherished American West.
Journal: Kultura Popularna
- Issue Year: 58/2018
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 8-16
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English