03099nam 2200637 450 991079824360332120230808192038.00-8165-3370-9(CKB)3710000000614317(EBL)4412551(SSID)ssj0001605245(PQKBManifestationID)16313465(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001605245(PQKBWorkID)14838106(PQKB)10998158(MiAaPQ)EBC4412551(OCoLC)936200098(MdBmJHUP)muse52284(Au-PeEL)EBL4412551(CaPaEBR)ebr11206735(CaONFJC)MIL890984(OCoLC)951065207(EXLCZ)99371000000061431720151027d2016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHow myth became history Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands /John E. DeanTucson :University of Arizona Press,2016.1 online resource (246 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8165-3242-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.American literatureHistory and criticismMexican literatureHistory and criticismNationalism and literatureLiterature and historyMexican-American Border RegionIn literatureTexasHistoriographyAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Mexican literatureHistory and criticism.Nationalism and literature.Literature and history.810.9/9721Dean John Emory1553124MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798243603321How myth became history3813438UNINA