LEADER 04358nam 22005172 450 001 9910786847803321 005 20231206210024.0 010 $a1-78138-610-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000373897 035 $a(EBL)380580 035 $a(OCoLC)476209074 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781386101 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4786566 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4310835 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380580 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000373897 100 $a20170307d2005|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAmerican Mythologies $eessays on contemporary literature /$fedited by William Blazek and Michael K. Glenday$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 305 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017). 311 $a0-85323-736-0 327 $aIndians with voices: revisiting Savagism and civilization -- Wild hope: love, money and mythic identity in the novels of Louise Erdich -- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee: mythologies of representation in selected writings on boxing by Norman Mailer -- The secret sharing: myth and memory in the writing of Jayne Anne Phillips -- The individual's ghost: towards a new mythology of the postmodern -- 'Cheap, on sale, American dream': contemporary Asian American writers' responses to American success mythologies -- 'No way back forever': American western myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy -- Native American visions of apocalypse: prophecy and protest in the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor -- The brave new world of computing in post-war American science fiction -- Mythologies of 'estactic immersion': America, the poem and ethics of lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot -- Whose myth is it anyway? Coyote in the poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz -- Aging, anxious and apocalyptic: baseball's myths for the millennium -- Finding a voice, telling a story: constructing communal identity in contemporary American women's writing. 330 $aThis challenging new book looks at the current reinvention of American Studies: a reinvention that, among other things, has put the whole issue of just what is 'American' and what is 'American Studies' into contention. The collection focuses, in particular, on American mythology. The editors themselves have written essays that examine the connections between mythologies of the United States and those of either classical European or Native American traditions. William Blazek considers Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine novels as chronicles combining Ojibwa mythology and contemporary U.S. culture in ways that reinvest a sense of mythic identity within a multicultural, postmodern America. Michael K Glenday's analysis of Jayne Anne Phillips' work and explores in it the contexts where myth and dream interact with each other. Betty Louise Bell is one of four essayists in this collection who focus their criticism on authors of Native American heritage. In the first part of 'Indians with Voices', Bell carefully argues that Roy Harvey Pearce's seminal Native American studies text Savagism and Civilization fails to acknowledge its white elitist assumptions about what constitutes The American Mind and views Native Americans along a primitive-savage binary that helped to create a twentieth-century 'national mythos of innocence and destiny'. Other essays include Christopher Brookeman's study of the impact of Muhammad Ali on Norman Mailer's non-fiction writing about heavyweight boxing. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xIndian authors 606 $aIndian mythology in literature 606 $aRace in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xIndian authors. 615 0$aIndian mythology in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a810.90054 702 $aBlazek$b William 702 $aGlenday$b Michael K. 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786847803321 996 $aAmerican Mythologies$93759353 997 $aUNINA