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How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands /

"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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dean, John Emory (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2016]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Timeline of the Texas-Mexico border, 1835-1920
  • The Texas-Mexico border : a mythical history
  • The collision of cultural memories on the Texas-Mexico border : Walter Prescott Webb's The Texas Rangersl, Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez, and Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley : Estampas del Valle
  • Mexico, genesis, apocalypse : Ignacio Solares' Yankee Invasion : a Novel of Mexico City
  • The history of all is the history of each : Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: or Evening Redness in the West
  • History as alternative to the past : Carlos Fuentes' The Old Gringo
  • The archival cave of meditation in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas
  • Remediating a refusal of history : Arturo Islas' The Rain God : a Desert Tale.