03409nam 22005413u 450 991046279020332120210117145343.01-78138-610-2(CKB)2670000000373897(EBL)380580(OCoLC)476209074(UkCbUP)CR9781781386101(MiAaPQ)EBC4310835(MiAaPQ)EBC380580(MiAaPQ)EBC4786566(EXLCZ)99267000000037389720140922d2005|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican Mythologies[electronic resource] Essays on Contemporary LiteratureLiverpool :Liverpool University Press,2005.1 online resource (315 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-85323-736-0 Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Indians with Voices: Revisiting Savagism and Civilization; 2: Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich; 3: Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee: Mythologies of Representation in Selected Writings on Boxing by Norman Mailer; 4: The Secret Sharing: Myth and Memory in the Writing of Jayne Anne Phillips; 5: The Individual's Ghost: Towards a New Mythology of the Postmodern; 6: 'Cheap, On Sale, American Dream': Contemporary Asian American Women Writers' Responses to American Success Mythologies7: 'No Way Back Forever': American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy8: Native American Visions of Apocalypse: Prophecy and Protest in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor; 9: The Brave New World of Computing in Post-war American Science Fiction; 10: Mythologies of 'Ecstatic immersion': America, The Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot; 11: Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz; 12: Aging, Anxious and Apocalyptic: Baseball's Myths for the Millennium13: Finding a Voice, Telling a Story: Constructing Communal Identity in Contemporary American Women's WritingNotes on Contributors; IndexIn United States culture, myth has played a significant role in representing the dominant ideologies of the nation as it emerged from colonial dependence to self-created superstate. In the period following the Vietnam War, however, such foundation myth has been radically challenged by the emergence of a range of new myths that set out to express America's multicultural ethos. This essay collection questions the legacy of triumphalist mythology and explores the emergence of a more pluralistic, syncretic mythology that is central to the continual re-imagining of American communities. The thirteeAmerican literatureIndian mythology in literatureRace in literatureElectronic books.American literature.Indian mythology in literature.Race in literature.810.90054Blazek William859461Glenday Michael859462AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910462790203321American Mythologies1918014UNINA00512nus1 2200181 i 450 PUV055490720251003044314.020211007a19..9999||||0itac50 baitb|u||||||||ProfessionaleMilanoAddison Wesley Longman Italia[poi] Pearson education Italia.ITIT-00000020211007IT-BN0095 IT-NA0593 PUV0554907 01 BN LSProfessionale66781UNISANNIO