04547nam 2200793Ia 450 991095680420332120251117083007.01-299-05261-41-60344-592-7(CKB)2550000000033468(OCoLC)824699069(CaPaEBR)ebrary10463976(SSID)ssj0000536502(PQKBManifestationID)11342056(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536502(PQKBWorkID)10547329(PQKB)10469374(MiAaPQ)EBC3038006(MdBmJHUP)muse1075(Au-PeEL)EBL3038006(CaPaEBR)ebr10463976(CaONFJC)MIL436511(BIP)46437628(BIP)11025636(EXLCZ)99255000000003346820040901d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrExploding the Western myths of empire on the postmodern frontier /Sara L. Spurgeon1st ed.College Station Texas A&M University Pressc20051 online resource (179 p.) Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ;no. 19Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-58544-422-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Foundation of Empire -- Pledged in Blood -- The Acts of Their Own Hands -- Decolonizing Imperialism -- Sanctioned Narratives and the (Non)Innocent Triumph of the Savage War -- Necessary Difference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier--the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's texts--continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western "mythic" tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon's analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future.Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ;no. 19.American literatureWest (U.S.)History and criticismAmerican literatureSouthwestern StatesHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismWestern storiesHistory and criticismPostmodernism (Literature)West (U.S.)Frontier and pioneer life in literatureImperialism in literatureSouthwestern StatesIntellectual life20th centuryWest (U.S.)Intellectual life20th centurySouthwestern StatesIn literatureWest (U.S.)In literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Western storiesHistory and criticism.Postmodernism (Literature)Frontier and pioneer life in literature.Imperialism in literature.810.9/3278Spurgeon Sara L606934MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956804203321Exploding the western1123938UNINA