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The West and the Word : Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse /
Western expansion in North America has mainly been described as either a linear sequence energized by nineteenth-century nation-building processes at a moving frontier, or as the practice of settler colonialism and its exploitation of resources and displacement of nonwhite peoples. This book suggest...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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München ; Wien :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Dialectics of the Global ;
13 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- On the Series
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abstract
- Introduction: Imagining the American West
- Historical Background: The West and the World
- Methods and Theories: Doing Over Geography
- Spatialization Processes: Towards a New Language of Space in Literary and Cultural Studies
- Chapter 1: Integrating the Old Northwest through Utopian, Regionalist, Feminist, and Local Colour Discourse
- Chapter 2: The Incommensurable West between Integration and Separation
- Conclusion: Reimagining the American West
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Bibliography
- Index