“A foot and light-hearted, I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose…” In his poem Song of The Open Road, Walt Whiteman wrote an open road without preference, denial and limits, which all people can travel on to dispose of outworn routines, explore uncertainty and attain heroic deeds. Whitman’s poem reflects Americans’ fascination with the open road. In people’s imagination about the open road, they depict a panorama of an unknown frontier, which attract them to embark on the journey to chase freedom, equality and independence. Actually, the open road, deeply influenced by racialized and gendered cultural context, has dual definition. For the disadvantaged and the marginalized group, the open road means struggling and rebelling against oppression and supremacy, which is impracticable and dead-end, while for the dominant and privileged group in the society, the open road is usually synonymous with nostalgia and return of the values and morality proposed by them.
Struggle and Rebellion
Obviously, the two female protagonists in the movie …show more content…
The protagonist Jack’s romantic encounter with the India stewardess well demonstrate the nostalgia of white male masculinity and white male supremacy, which make white male have the dominant and privileged status in the sexual intercourse whether with white or colored female.3 The plot in which the three brother save the India boys and then they are revered by other Indians in the village is actually the recurrence of the white savior narrative in which white characters save people of color from their plight. The Whiteman brothers are just as same as the white saviors in the narrative trope, who is always depicted as white male learning the life philosophy and curing his spiritual wound in the process of
Struggle and Rebellion
Obviously, the two female protagonists in the movie …show more content…
The protagonist Jack’s romantic encounter with the India stewardess well demonstrate the nostalgia of white male masculinity and white male supremacy, which make white male have the dominant and privileged status in the sexual intercourse whether with white or colored female.3 The plot in which the three brother save the India boys and then they are revered by other Indians in the village is actually the recurrence of the white savior narrative in which white characters save people of color from their plight. The Whiteman brothers are just as same as the white saviors in the narrative trope, who is always depicted as white male learning the life philosophy and curing his spiritual wound in the process of