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

• Autore: Dean John Emory
• 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
• 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.: 9910817902703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II