Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In the essay "Journeys into Kansas," William Least Heat-Moon articulates his theory of travel writing, indicating his understanding of the purposes of travel writing in general and of his two books in particular, along with the problems inherent in achieving those purposes. A reading of Blue Highways and PrairyErth in light of "Journeys into Kansas" reveals how HeatMoon realizes his goals more fully in Blue Highways, which entails a personal narrative, than in PrairyErth, which, unlike Blue Highways, lacks a personal narrative and is as much a meditation on its own writing and HeatMoon's theory of its writing as a realization of the goals set forth in "Journeys into Kansas."
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:4 (Fall 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.