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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465968503321

Autore

Dean John Emory

Titolo

How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands / / John E. Dean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-8165-3370-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9721

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

Mexican literature - History and criticism

Nationalism and literature

Literature and history

Electronic books.

Mexican-American Border Region In literature

Texas Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Timeline of the Texas-Mexico border, 1835-1920 -- Introduction. The Texas-Mexico border : a mythical history -- chapter 1. The collision of cultural memories on the Texas-Mexico border : Walter Prescott Webb's The Texas Rangers : a Century of Frontier Defense, Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez : a Mexicotexan Novel, and Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley / Estampas del Valle -- chapter 2. Mexico, genesis, apocalypse : Ignacio Solares' Yankee Invasion : a Novel of Mexico City -- chapter 3. The history of all is the history of each : Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or, Evening Redness in the West -- chapter 4. History's alternative to the past : Carlos Fuentes' The Old Gringo -- chapter 5. The archival cave of meditation in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas -- chapter 6. Remediating a refusal of history : Arturo Islas' The Rain God : a Desert Tale.

Sommario/riassunto

"The book explores how border subjects have been created and disputed in cultural narratives of the Texas-Mexico border, comparing and analyzing Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo literary representations of the border"--Provided by publisher.