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- Title
Horsepower: Animals, Automobiles, and an Ethic of (Car) Care in Early US Road Narratives.
- Authors
BOWMAN, DANIEL
- Abstract
From the mid-1890s to the present day, cars have been fetishized as animal in US automotive culture. This began with automotive periodical Horseless Age, which, in positing the car as a substitute for the horse, decried the material limitations of the "outdated" animal whilst at the same time seeking to coopt its symbolic value. In the first US road trip novels of the 1910s automobiles are described figuratively as animals, simultaneously evoking the horse while symbolically killing it. Examining the intertwined material and symbolic relations between humans, animals, and machines at the dawn of the motor age elucidates the necropolitical position of animals in automotive culture – of the horse in horsepower.
- Subjects
HORSEPOWER; ANIMAL culture; AUTOMOBILES; HORSE breeds; HORSES; INTERPERSONAL relations
- Publication
Journal of American Studies, 2022, Vol 56, Issue 4, p613
- ISSN
0021-8758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021875822000020