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