Title

Fading landscapes: The Culture of Exile and the Open Road

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the complex relationship between material culture and hegemonic constructions of ideology along with their tendency to make their way into larger institutional apparatuses of society. For this study this interaction is explored through the symbolic construction of the american roadways and a selective. Drawing on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Baudrillard’s America, and William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highways, this work attempts to combine critical perspectives on the formation of public space with the events of these works in order to formulate how the ideological values which are subsumed by the representational space of ‘The Open Road’ contribute to modern author’s tendency to gravitate toward themes of existential isolation, loss of place, and the abstraction of materiality.

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