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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458051703321

Autore

Denzin Norman K.

Titolo

Searching for Yellowstone : race, gender, family, and memory in the postmodern West / / Norman K. Denzin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42036-8

1-315-42037-6

1-59874-654-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

305.800978

Soggetti

Indians of North America - West (U.S.) - History

Sex role - West (U.S.) - History

Stereotypes (Social psychology) - West (U.S.) - History

Families - West (U.S.) - History

Memory - Social aspects - West (U.S.) - History

Indians of North America - Yellowstone National Park - History

Historical reenactments - Yellowstone National Park

Electronic books.

West (U.S.) Race relations

West (U.S.) Social conditions

Yellowstone National Park In popular culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Ind.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Photo Montage 1: Mythic Native Americans and the New/Old West; 1. Searching for Yellowstone I; 2. Indians and Cowboys; 3. Indians in the Park; 4. Remembering to Forget: Lewis and Clark and Native Americans in Yellowstone; Photo Montage 2: Yellowstone Park and Lewis and Clark, Circa 2006; 5. Sacagawea's Nickname, or The Sacagawea Problem; 6. Drawn to Yellowstone I: Jay Cooke's Railroad and Thomas Moran's ""Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone""; 7. Drawn to Yellowstone II: Crazy Mule's Map, Geysers, Coca-Cola, and Other Franments; 8. Retire the Chief, Keep the Indians

Photo Montage 3: The New West, Memory, and the Author's Family9.



Searching for Yellowstone II and Alicia's Horses; 10. Coda; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Yellowstone. Sacagawea. Lewis & Clark. Transcontinental railroad. Indians as college mascots. All are iconic figures, symbols of the West in the Anglo-American imagination. Well-known cultural critic Norman Denzin interrogates each of these icons for their cultural meaning in this finely woven work. Part autoethnography, part historical narrative, part art criticism, part cultural theory, Denzin creates a postmodern bricolage of images, staged dramas, quotations, reminiscences and stories that strike to the essence of the American dream and the shattered dreams of the peoples it subjugate