{"title":"My Mother, My Self: Coming of Age on the Road in Sara Taylor’s<i>The Lauras</i>","authors":"Angelica De Vido","doi":"10.3368/cl.63.2.174","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 1922, sixteen-year-old Idris Galcia Hall embarked on a record-breaking circumnavigation of the globe. She crossed eighty countries and six continents in a Ford Model T and was consequently hailed as the “world’s most widely-travelled girl” (Wanderwell 1). Despite Hall’s fame, and that of","PeriodicalId":44998,"journal":{"name":"CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3368/cl.63.2.174","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 1922, sixteen-year-old Idris Galcia Hall embarked on a record-breaking circumnavigation of the globe. She crossed eighty countries and six continents in a Ford Model T and was consequently hailed as the “world’s most widely-travelled girl” (Wanderwell 1). Despite Hall’s fame, and that of
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Contemporary Literature publishes scholarly essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field. The journal welcomes articles on multiple genres, including poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, new media and digital literature, and graphic narrative. CL published the first articles on Thomas Pynchon and Susan Howe and the first interviews with Margaret Drabble and Don DeLillo; we also helped to introduce Kazuo Ishiguro, Eavan Boland, and J.M. Coetzee to American readers. As a forum for discussing issues animating the range of contemporary literary studies, CL features the full diversity of critical practices.