True West : authenticity and the American West /

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In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasive in literature, popular culture, and history, assumptions about western authenticity have not received adequate critical attention. Given the ongoin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Handley, William R., Lewis, Nathaniel, 1962-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Colección:Postwestern horizons.
Temas:
American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Historiography
Literature
Realism in literature
Authenticiteit.
Geschiedschrijving.
Regionale geschiedenis (wetenschap)
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
West United States
Westen (Verenigde Staten)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Rhetorics of Authenticity. Truth or consequences : projecting authenticity in the 1830s / Nathaniel Lewis
  • Cowgirls and sage hens : Henry Adams's western fantasy / Lisa MacFarlane
  • Getting the real story : implications of the demand for authenticity in writings from the Canadian West / Alison Calder
  • Willa Cather : "The West authentic," the West Divided / William R. Handley
  • Part II. Authenticity and Native American Cultures. Simulations of authenticity : imagined Indians and sacred landscape from New Age to nature writing / Drucilla Mims Wall
  • "Real Indian art" : Charles Eastman's search for an authenticating culture concept Christine Edwards Allred
  • The only real Indians are Western ones : authenticity, regionalism, and Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, or Sylvester Long / Nancy Cook
  • The authenticity game : "Getting Real" in contemporary American Indian literature / Susan Bernardin
  • Part III. Picturing Histories. Edward Curtis : pictorialist and ethnographic adventurist / Gerald Vizenor
  • Animal calling/calling animal : threshold space in Frederic Remington's Coming to the call / Stephen Tatum
  • "Cameras and photographs were not permitted in the camps" : photographic documentation and distortion in Japanese American internment narratives / Melody Graulich
  • Part IV. Reimagining Place. Authenticity, occupancy, and credibility : Rick Bass and the rhetoric of protecting place / Scott Slovic
  • Authoring an authentic place : environmental and literary stewardship in Stegner and Kittredge / Bonney MacDonald
  • "Genealogy is in our blood" : Terry Tempest Williams and the redemption of "Native" Mormonism / Joanna Brooks
  • Authentic re-creations : ideology, practice, and regional history along Buena Park's entertainment corridor / Hsuan L. Hsu.

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