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How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands / / John E. Dean



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Autore: Dean John Emory Visualizza persona
Titolo: How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands / / John E. Dean Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8165-3370-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465968503321
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