How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands / / John E. Dean
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| Autore: |
Dean John Emory
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| Titolo: |
How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands / / John E. Dean
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| Pubblicazione: | Tucson : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9721 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - History and criticism |
| Mexican literature - History and criticism | |
| Nationalism and literature | |
| Literature and history | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexican-American Border Region In literature |
| Texas Historiography | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How myth became history |
| ISBN: | 0-8165-3370-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465968503321 |
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