Myka Tucker-Abramson is Associate Professor, University of Warwick and the author of Novel Shocks: Urban Renewal and the Cultural Origins of Neoliberalism (2018).
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Introduction 1. The Road Novel's Three Beginnings 2. "Maybe We Need Another Vision": The Energy Crisis Road Novel and the Limits of History 3. Market-Driven Narratives: The Post-Socialist Transition Road Novel 4. The Countertopographic Feminist Road Novel 5. On the Road to Collapse: The Postapocalyptic Road Novel and the End of the Long Twentieth Century Afterword: The Car, the Ship, and the Flood: The Road Novel at the End of US Hegemony
"This is a major work of literary criticism, and it will undoubtedly shape current debates on the novel and late capitalism. Tucker-Abramson has an extraordinary capacity to remap the contemporary literary landscape." -Harry Stecopoulos, University of Iowa "Tucker-Abramson's theoretical antecedents enable her to cut through the global market's appearances. Cartographies of Empire, as the study both of a genre and of that genre's place in a political economy, is both exhaustive and likely to be unrivalled." -Richard Godden, University of California, Irvine "This book is an exhilarating tour de force that revolutionizes how we understand the road novel. Truly comparative in its world-literary scope, Tucker-Abramson's readings of form are electrifying, illuminating both the genre's intractable problems and its revelatory capacities." -Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin